Q: Stephen Hawkings says the Big Bang is the beginning of time. What does he mean? A: Hawkings does not mean the Big Bang is the absolute beginning of time itself. The Big Bang (which at present is a Scientific Theory) is postulated from the assumption that observed red shifting of galactic clusters mean galactic clusters are moving away from each other at superluminal velocities giving rise to the idea of metric expansion (which is also an assumption that could be wrong..in fact at present there is no explanation for the mechanism of HOW space itself - not distance increasing - can actually expand). So t=0 is an arbitrary delineation of time which marks the beginning of the Big Bang..assuming the Big Bang and Metric Expansion is true (neither is a matter of fact). I will remind people that the Principle of Conservation of Energy - which is the most vigorously tested, sound, and verified Scientific premise there is - ENTAILS that energy is eternal. Eternity has no beginning. Thus no absolute beginning of time.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:00:07 +0000
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