Gary C Gibson - 11:41am Jan 22, 2005 EDT (#2 of 2)
Psalm 75:4 "and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns. 5 Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak with outstretched neck.'"
Inflation has passed the Big Bang as a likely cosmological origin in the present era I believe. Space-time is believed to have coexistentially expanded analogous to a balloon famously.
Many people make invalid dysjunctive propositions conclusive for themselves especially regarding Christian cosmology and scientific cosmology. It is like saying the dumpster at McDonalds or Burger King,when there was a third choice of eats perhaps without a dumpster at all.
The Biblical chaos preceding the spoken word to begin order is considered by some eqv to the pre Higgs field inflationary chaos of high entropy.
The Higgs field expansion of course accelerated space and time, and the gravitational force eventual brought some of the field to contract and form into galaxies etc eventually. After 6 billion years that period was over, the Universe resumed acceleration at 7 billion years-God rested on the 7th day, and cosmologists speculate that the present expansion toward high chaos/entropy (all the hills made low, the sun going red giant, more signs and shaking in the heavens) will continue until a state of highest possible entropy resumes.
2nd Peter 3:8 "8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
I think Peter was generalizing as best he could, the special theory was a bit beyond him at that date.
The cosmological constant, another Higgs field possibly, is thought to be the element pushing space-time outward as a sort of anti-gravity.
The Higgs field may be what give all the other mass-like particles a seemingness of mass...that is it is relation to how they interact with the Higgs particles.
Light quanta have no mass traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light time does not exist at all. Time exists proportionally, maybe in ratio to the Lorenz transformation, to speed in any object. The faster one goes the lower the value of time one-object experiences within the special theory of relativity.
God of course isn't subject to the time dimensional effects Himself unless he choose to, because He is a spirit and certainly not interacting with a primordial Higgs field to experience time or speed necessarily within a contingent cosmos of his creation...
Brian Greene phrased the way people experience sight in an interesting way in the 2004 book 'The Fabric of the Cosmos'; he said (paraphrased) that certain waveforms (I interpolate of the M-Theory matrices strings or branes assortment) stimulate certain chemicals in the eye to give the experience of seeming to 'see' in the brain.
That interesting point should stimulate some theological and philosophical cells perhaps asleep to consider the phenomenality of the cosmos as a for-itself, as what seems to be, even within an 'evolved' paradigm, and even how 'things' seem to have 'weight' within a Higgs field and within one's own senses within the Higgs Field and spacetime possible 3brane.
Some cosmological theorists point out that the entire universe could have been created from 20 pounds of 'mass' that was hyperinflated in a Higgs Field.
20 pounds and all this exists...not exactly illusory, yet relative and very temporal. In physics theories even time is reversible or isotropic. The problem is entropy...it is a statistically modeled exemplar chaotic distribution of everything toward disorder. Time can't improbably assembly particles or mass from disorder to order.
At the beginning, somehow from extreme chaos and entropy, the Universe and space-time immediately came into being with the most concentrated possible order. The spoken word to begin, the order for the right strings and branes to vibrate or resonate, whatever God choose to will to be, and eventually human life too.
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