WE ARE ALL HOMOCENTRISTS NOW:

Mysteries of time, and the multiverse: In his studies of entropy and the irreversibility of time, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll is exploring the idea that our universe is part of a larger structure. (John Johnson Jr., 6/28/08, Los Angeles Times)

So what's the problem?

If you really believed the conventional story that the Big Bang was the beginning, that there was nothing before the Big Bang, I think that's a very difficult fact to explain. . . .

There's no law of physics that says it should start at a low-entropy state. But the actual universe did that.

From a layman's standpoint, it seems perfectly rational that things would start small and grow apart. You're saying that's wrong.

Many of my very smart colleagues say exactly the same thing. They say, "Why are you thinking about this? It just makes sense that the early universe was small and low-entropy."

But I think that is just a prejudice: . . . Because it is like that in our universe, we tend to think it is naturally like that.

I don't think there is an explanation for that in terms of our current understanding of physics. I'm just saying it's not a fact that we should take for granted.

So you think the way the universe began is unnatural?

Ding..ding...ding...No one believes in Naturalism.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 3, 2008 7:48 AM