Monday, May 24, 2004
God: 'Physicist Hacker'?
Slate.Com's Jim Holt presents an intriguing theory from Physicist Andrei Linde, whose work with the Big Bang Theory earned him plenty of accolades.
Well I'm not going to toss out my Bible and shun my Creationist beliefs, but it's an interesting read.
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Among the many curious implications of Linde's theory, one stands out for our present purposes: It doesn't take all that much to create a universe. Resources on a cosmic scale are not required. It might even be possible for someone in a not terribly advanced civilization to cook up a new universe in a laboratory. Which leads to an arresting thought: Could that be how our universe came into being?
"What my theoretical argument shows—and Alan Guth and others who have looked at this matter have come to the same conclusion—is that we can't rule out the possibility that our own universe was created in a lab by someone in another universe who just felt like doing it."
Well I'm not going to toss out my Bible and shun my Creationist beliefs, but it's an interesting read.
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