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In reply to the discussion: Does the Big Bang breakthrough offer proof of God? [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)On the other end is 20 billion. They might as well be given the average life span is 75 and we might reach 110...
If you chose to believe in alpha and omega as these two numbers that is your choice. But these numbers have nothing to do with faith. Also we are not only getting better in the theoretical physics side of things, but also in the experimental side of it. So yes, CERN is getting pretty damn good at recreating those conditions close to that point in massive accelerators.
Higgs-Bosom was theoretical, now we know we have proof. Hell, the evidence to expansion just shattered the speed limit in the universe (speed of light)
Now I was half joking when I said that soon we would have discussions on how many quarks exist on the head of a pin and that is a theological and philosophical discussion, not a scientific one.
The wonder of science is not finding about god, that is entirely a human construct, but finding our place in the universe. You wish to touch upon the philosophy cosmologists do though, in some ways astronomy is humbling, but you have to ask if you and me asking these questions is a way for life to express itself? That to me is philosophy of science in action, but not faith.