Something from Nothing
Tony Isaac, October 28, 2005
At the very core of creation is an issue that scientists want to avoid. This issue is crucial, because without addressing it, nothing else matters. Yet it is avoided because it is such a stumbling block for today's scientific establishment:
How can something come from nothing?
We have all been taught that our universe began with the Big Bang. There was an unbelievably huge explosion, from which the entire Universe was formed.
That is where the story begins. Any attempt to question the Big Bang is heresy.
But exactly what was it that exploded?
Gravitational Singularity
Based on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, some believe that the Big Bang was produced by a gravitational singularity. Many physicists and astronomers believe that the universe is, and always has been, expanding. If this is true, then if we go back far enough in time, we eventually reach a time when the universe was infinitesimally small. When this size reaches zero, it is said to be a "gravitational singularity." According to this model, time began at the same "instant" that this singularity exploded in the Big Bang, so there was nothing "before" the Big Bang.
But where did this gravitational singularity come from? What caused time to begin?
Faith
Some say that there does not need to be a cause. We know it happened because we are here. But that answer is based on faith, not science.
The Big Bang is not science--it is an article of faith.
Copyright © 2006 by Tony Isaac