I wanted to say something about cosmology and the way it relates to philosophy and theology. Since the rise of Darwinian Evolution theory, there have been a lot of questions people have about how that relates to the Bible and Bible creation.
I found a voice transcriber on a phone and used it to think aloud in order to save writing time. Much of this will be not so well ordered, or redundant since I was just thinking aloud and happy to chase various tangents. The physical cosmology points are the same few gone over repeatedly though, so it is a fairly simple list of items included below.
I have had the opportunity to edit some of it. The voice transcription was about 3000 words though; and it required much editing that I haven’t time for. And while editing I thought of other points to elaborate and the total went up. At some point I need to just leave it unedited because time may not permit investing more time.
Two physicists can talk about some point of quantum mechanics together and know exactly what is being considered. The point of view of philosophers is often not so comparatively quite exact . Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, and as regards knowledge the wisdom may be in knowing several systems of thought simultaneously and synthesizing one’s own view. That view may be somewhat difficult to explain in concise terms to someone that has compiled their own worldview or philosophical opinion on a particular issue with exactitude. A few formulas objectively understandable for many philosophical points isn’t possible. Contrasting or comparing Hegelian world views from the Phenomenology of Mind with Biblical teleology and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, concurrent with Descartes’ and Sartre’s epistemological; rationalism and the neo-Platonism of Plotinus may be challenging while using that perspective to regard various modern cosmology theories. If one is discussing the matter with someone more educated in a different tradition or assembly of eastern and /or western philosophers it is easy to discern that the investment in verbiage may be substantial or prohibitive.
Of course, especially with the use of large language models, it is possible to elicit and synthesize information about a variety of contemporary cosmology topics. Philosophy though is far less about finding one particular final theory or final system or single surviving model that is physics. A standard cosmology model or a standard model of quantum mechanics aren’t approaches necessary for philosophy. Philosophers may ask questions to discover a Universe of models and paradigms that physics may provide answers to- some better than others. Newton and Einstein did not elucidate final theories of gravity nor cosmological models- they weren’t steps on the infinite ascent of knowledge and wisdom.
There are fundamentally different areas of thought. For some the Bible is like an old house that has been replaced by the new house of Darwin down on the farm, and they have moved into that. And their opinion of the old house has been rather trashed.
Some replaced a Christian faith and belief in God with a purely scientific, evolutionary point of view For those the Bible. It isn't philosophically interesting. Yet I believe the final theory of everything can only be provided by God. Scientific accounts though worthwhile will always have a contingent and incomplete position, necessarily, as if they were incompleteness systems of Kurt Godel and any formal system requires some stipulated axiom as its foundation. For scientific atheists that is the belief that God does not exist- that cannot be proven within any scientific theory of everything. It is at best a very important (not to them) externality to the system.
A big bang.
It's supposed to have generated, created, generated from singularity Singularity, which we can consider something like a period of nearly infinitely reduced size- and that period or Singularity would have been a field, a single field,. Its composition is supposedly of extremely high temperature and power.
An undifferentiated field is interesting to consider briefly. It would have no spacing or even meaningful temperature since temperature is also a relative measurement in comparison to something else- and for the field that is the destined universe there is nothing else- not even spacing or time; no spacing, no time. It is only structure. Mass, energy and spacetime exist within it in potential as contingent fields if the initial field cools enough. Paradoxically the initial field must exist just above a level where it could break apart yet not hot enough to make it break apart. That precarious field state of undifferentiated balance is also the theoretical destiny of black holes that become large enough attracting mass and energy, space and time unto themselves as the initial field tries to reconstruct itself identically to the condition of the original field.
Gravity brings space-time, mass and energy toward the initial field state.
Traditionally, cosmologists have wanted to say that gravity is that intense, And that at a certain point, perhaps a phase instability. The structure of the differentiated field collapses and a big bang and inflation occur.
A phase transition happens in a singularity. Perhaps quantum instability, perhaps just one potato chip virtual particle too many arising from an external field. That is virtual energy or vertical part virtual particles from space outside an initial field, or perhaps from an existing universe around a black hole for a clone initial field, which is outside a singularity.
And that paradigm isn't satisfying for an initial field- The Initial Field, is supposed to have nothing existing outside it. If the period/initial field is contained within an infinite empty space- that is not a measurable or even ponderable thing for physics to consider. Philosophers may of course, and Christians too, albeit with a cloud of unknowing concerning how God would host the phenomenon of infinity spatially or even a unified field initially. That is, in what relation does a tiny patch of field structure occupy to God’s will...does an infinity of theoretical field patches exist a priori in actuality or potentiality for the thought of omnipotence- and need they be actualized in order to phenomenalize?
The Singularity etc.
That's where space, time, and mass and energy will all arise from Space-Time, mass, and energy.
Are all implicit properties, potential properties of the field.
If one were to use some sort of Aristotelian paradigm of description of potential and actual Elements or the comp composition parts that something is made of what it could be and become.
Virtual particles were snared by the gravity of The Singularity at a certain point where they could turn off gravity, where the intensity of the gravity would turn off and in theory one might have a rapid expansion.
There might be some kind of extreme anti-gravity particle that arises, things might expand faster than light briefly until it cools down enough for gravity to arise from the unified field.
The gravity can slow everything down in the expansion, and instantly I remember that at some point gravity and the cosmic cosmological constant need arise in some kind of reciprocal relationship. A cosmological constant could be a remnant of the pre-unified field infinite speed and the singularity was a locality occurring within it.
The rate of expansion of the universe might be found, or provide a reciprocal insight into faster than light, mechanics of the universe. The inflaton is a very important concept to contemplate- more than a puzzle to find a formula to account for.
It's really useful to consider that mass energy and gravity all arise from that initial field and the gravity, mass and energy tend to want to Interact space-time warps, Mass energy, gravity, and space time, Interact, and so They would tend to.
Phenomenon that affect one another.
Locally, one sees that space-time Is warped and shaped in relation to the amount of gravity in it, and it attracts itself.
It's as if some element of the field initial original singular field and not the before Fields within that initial field are trying to Are just interacting whether they're trying to recombine Or Return to the initial State is difficult to say.
That could be what is actually Happening, and in some cosmologists Various explanations about That phenomenal field, why it would happen to start with you, know-It combines it, it attracts.
It becomes something like a vast black hole, and then at a certain point It has so much energy that it flips over into The expansion phase.
And that is a philosophically interesting paradigm, regardless of the cosmological mechanics or quantum gravitational mechanics.
Or that might be used to describe technically how that could occur.
One has something like, an hourglass that can be interpreted in various ways.
The singularity is the middle point between them, and perhaps an hourglass expands in the middle of a.
Some kind of field exists surrounding it.
That doesn't actually affect it.
It's a different kind of space that isn't related to the kind of space or time that is in the hourglass space-time.
The hourglass is just a period.
A singularity is a small size that has yet to expand into an hourglass in one direction to the right or left. Perhaps it expanded into particular dimensions that allowed just certain configurations to develop.
Some people would like to say that the hourglass is a recurrent recycling hourglass that just flips in the other direction when it gets. It moves back towards a singularity.
Others would like to say the hour glass creates, an infinite number of hour glass universes Expanding from it, growing other hourglasses or other universes and other singularities, perhaps like black holes form and black holes, become Ultimately Other universes.
This is a material tangible relationship of universes and the creation of universes or in a Multiverse From one.
But then one gets questions about where did that original multiverse hourglass arise In the middle of nowhere.
And one of the explanations given is that it has always existed.
The virtual particles of the original empty space formed from eternity, and then one gets questions about; well, if there was an infinite space and infinite potential for hourglasses to form from an initial hourglass, There should be an infinite number of hourglasses or universes that have already formed for an infinite amount of time. And so one gets to very interesting philosophical points regarding, Infinity, ever being full of infinity in creation within finite time And the amount of virtual energy in the original field that hosted all the other hourglasses itself should have been infinite.
And where did that virtual Energy arise from?
It's difficult to consider that question because so many questions now about virtual energy are that it's simply part of a field and the virtual energy in the field is the virtual energy that always existed.
What comprises the initial field that hosted the first hourglass universe? That is, this one that expanded in One Direction at a singularity. Since timelessness preceded the first space-time singularity expansion there logically should be an infinite number of universes instantly existing in the non-space region that hosted the first space-time singularity.
Some people give the other side as a white hole before the, Uh, Singularity that Results in the black hole and the other side.
The left, reducing to a singularity and then expanding on the right, as the red version of the hourglass. The blue version was the the left version.
So, has to ask the question about that field that surrounds the unified field of this universe, and there are innumerable philosophical and theological questions about that, that one may solve with philosophical and theological opinions.
Unfortunately, many of the cosmologists, Our physicists one can think of Stephen Weinberg or an astronomer like Carl Sagan and know that they didn't have the time, Or or interest in, biblical hermeneutics or philosophical questions in depth regarding the nature of cosmology.
Weinberg's book, the first three minutes, occurred before Guths Ideas about the inflaton and faster than light in inflation.
Evolution does occur, within that paradigm of the expanding Universe And the speed of the cosmological constant may be a derivative of that original field of inflation and reciprocal of Of gravity, trying to Interacting with space-time and mass and energy.
Remember the convertibility of mass and energy, trying to interact with space and time...Renormalize with the initial unified field And even that is interesting.
An initially unified field might have had some kind of parameters and various structures within it. And it's hard to say what would be delimited? It would have surface tension yet no pressure outward into nothingness before break up. Time and space being internal may have required no time or infinite time to reach the terminal phase of concentration. Speed of light or instantaneous- faster than light when light no longer exists in an electro-magnetic field. Yeah, it's interesting.
Perhaps people expect black holes in this universe to become Universals themselves.
Although Hawking's idea of particles virtual energy escaping black holes is great, the idea of black holes becoming white holes in other universes once they achieve a certain concentration of mass and energy to become and overcome the power of gravity to exist as a field different from the host Universe field and differing from the unified field
Seemingly would require new or alternate dimensions as well as space-time and non-contact with the host field or a field that hosts the initial singularity of the host Universe- especially since that one may have a faster than light nature.
When it releases, maybe what is faster than light?
Just before gravity, it cools down enough.
It's very hot just before gravity, able to form as a separate Field.
Christians, of course, maysay that God may have created the universe phenomenally and hosts that as easily as one could come up with a whole gravity theory and say that the entirety of the Universe exists placed on the surface of an extra dimensional sphere/event horizon of another universe.
Phenomenality of quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, unified field theory. cosmologies are things that philosophically need to be finite. Phenomenological theories and concatenations of compound systems that surge into being in a Higgs field may have transcending, better explanations that are inherent within a system.
Consider there are innumerable directions that even given a certain level of confidence the utility and veracity of a hypothetical system; confidence of systems,that are explanations for elements of physics,could go in. Systems may be integrals of other systems. System values in alternate and interrelated systems and structures may determine values of others.
And with those philosophical directions, one can compare the incompleteness of Newtonian gravity theories with Einsteinian gravity theories that are difficult to explain with quantum mechanics, They do work on quantum gravity theories these days.
Universe Singularity. An Inside And wonder What is outside of it.
Infinite, vast space And physicists, of course. say that that doesn't exist. A double entendre.
Well, it doesn't exist within the theory, explaining the singularity, even if it's a Multiverse for even a multiverse, has no scale, And the vastness of infinite space.
So, one speculate cosmologically that it is all, kind of, a web that just kept expanding infinitely.
And there's no space between the the different universes, but what it is, is there's no theory about space or avoid existing beyond The space-time mass energy Universe.
I think that is more correct and when can speculate about that infinitely almost about One one dot existing or an infinite number of dots, and it's almost like Olber's Paradox, too, you know about, which was salt, but about giving an infinite amount of time.
Why didn't light fill all the space of the universe, but given it an infinite amount of time?
Why didn't, infinite universes fill up all of the space infinitely, And if they couldn't do that, because there isn't an infinite amount of space, then that infinite amount of time create infinite universes? Some kind of field that provided an infinite amount of energy for infinite universities and is Infinitely inexhaustible.
Why didn't they collide with each other, or do they collide with each other, and why, what kept him what sort of laws and Order In that original Hosting field kept him from colliding with existing universes.
Does that have anything to do with some kind of repulsive force of universes in the cool down phase and After singularity and inflation and singularity?
There's an infinite number of questions virtually about infinite things, filling in finite space, Given in finite time, And certainly one Find an infinite God with infinite energy and infinite power and infinite wisdom.
Giving reasons why those things can't exist or could exist even phenomenally within His thought.
Because the space, time, energy, and mass, of compounded relations from some initial field that people don't understand and that field would be in theory within a field within a field, Russian kachina dolls kind of relationship to go on and finally.
For God, who is pure spirit that could transcend all those things You know artistically with art, one can superimpose various elements or photographs and create different things.
Completely different substances would be able to do that, even materially, I suppose.
And creatively, with computers or almost any field one, can have order and introduce other orders.
Sometimes waves can conflict with things and just cancel them out and sometimes not.
And that can apparently happen with various fields in the Higgs field, although you know one wonders why, if there's an initial field an undifferentiated field.
Why whatever differentiate to start with, and why would it ever differ without design and intent from a designer?
If, an initial unified field period, had no differentiation within it.
The addition of sufficient numbers of virtual particles to kick it into a phase change or quantum instability occurred.
I suppose it would be that, One would also have to have quantum instability and quantity able to.
So strong that they could resist Infinite pressure of gravity and Just before it reaches the field, where gravity could be released at enough energy with enough force concentrating it, but why, at that point, would it ever be any different when it did release.
Why wouldn't it create the exact sort of structure over and over and over again and the exact Universe would arise from it in a Nietzschean Utopia/Nightmare?
I suppose that would be more of a niche in point of view, And some people would like to say that it wouldn't Ever do that, and then others would say that it only happened once that way, and that all the other multiverses that arose from it within it.
Within that initial Universe were arising from a different position, but that would seem to mean that black holes would always differ in identity and structure internally to a certain degree from others.
When they reached a certain mature stage where they could turn off gravity and expand is white holes.
But all of these things do provide the opportunity to consider Biblical hermeneutics and philosophy too.
And theology, and a lot of people don't do that in depth, and it is a different structure.
But there's a Wittgenstein's indeterminacy of translation, of course, aboutwhat was meant to be understood in scripture when composed..
The content of the Bibles were divinely inspired, Who was intended to be the reader and when and what era and also the nature of the composition of the books of the Bible.
The language is different from the certain terms and ideas from Northern Kingdom to The Southern Kingdom Of Israel, ancient Israel, and, there were different areas when the books were put together too.
They're of different areas that is.
There are questions regarding meaning and what it could mean.
What was said and few people good at cosmology were also good with theology and Bible history. Some were very good with philosophy and spent a lot of time thinking about philosophical ways of interpreting cosmology and even fewer people, I suppose, the Bible.
Understand how Its meaning and the ideas have died Could encapsulate or be explained with In relation to Cosmology and And, of course, Evolution.
One can avoid that and avoid, considering it,, a lot of people do superficially, just accept Evolution Theory naively, not understanding that Evolution is a phenomenon perceived within an enigmatic, phenomenal space-time field.
There is an aspect contained within the expansion of space-time mass and energy cosmology paradigm that Itself isn’t understood even as a components of it, even space time is a feature of the Universe since a nominal Big Bang.
Mass energy is contingent upon the nature of quantum mechanics configs of the Universe.
The initial field, the quantum mechanics, the mass, mass and energy, and the various fields that hold particles together occur within the initial field and the initial field has no time- it is space-timeless.
Time and space occur within the field after it begins to expand, and gravity occurs within that paradigm too.
And of course, it's phenomenal, and God can create all that; God can stimulate it.
Set it into motion, design order.
It's designed from the beginning.
Every last thought in it.
Every last idea that occurs And so, And what people think about it in a completely deterministic paradigm and indeterminism could be built into the paradigm of determinism as well by Design.
Different degrees of determinism, And with as much choice as a designer might put into a video game, I suppose, if he wanted to.
Life emerging like art, superpositioning particles, entanglements, world lines to form various deterministic structures.
Yeah, I think it's fairly plain that particles entangled into Higgs field as steady state objects do have a large element of determinism in them about what they can be and what they do because of quantum decoherence.
They're locked in the Higgs field.
And actually, that is a very interesting area to consider.
What being In a state of quantum decoherence, and assemblies of molecules and molecules within fields, contacting them is.
What it really means, You know, and with consciousness and intelligent thought, are emergent properties within that field.
And I think I will leave this for there right now.
It's just a philosophical rumination about things.
