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Was that big gravity wave find just dust? Not a multiverse?

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Remember when a signal was detected in the cosmic microwave background’s polarization? It was used for every purpose from bashing Christians to claiming that gravitational waves strengthen the case for a multiverse. Indeed, National Geographic considered the waves evidence of a multiverse. (But when people are determined to believe something, they find evidence everywhere.) Now this:

Maybe it was just dust. From New Scientist:

An imprint left on ancient cosmic light that was attributed to ripples in spacetime – and hailed by some as the discovery of the century – may have been caused by ashes from an exploding star.

In the most extreme scenario, the finding could suggest that what looked like a groundbreaking result was only a false alarm. Another possibility is that the stellar ashes could help bring the result in line with other cosmic observations. We should know which it is later this year, when researchers report new results from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite.

Curiously, Rob Sheldon
predicted something like this at Evolution News & Views:

Or the polarization might be a result of needle-shaped dust that reflects the CMB differently depending on angle. Again, this was seen in the experiments preceding BICEP2 so the telescope was pointed away from most of the galactic dust lanes. Aerosols in the air might cause the effect, just as blue sky gets polarized. So BICEP2 was stationed at the South Pole to get the best view of the out-of-galactic, out-of-contamination, away-from-galaxy view of the CMB.

When the data was processed, the signal was still there, and stronger than the scientists had expected. This led to the hope that perhaps it wasn’t an artifact of matter in the universe, perhaps it was actually a property of the CMB itself. More.

Sheldon’s view is that, using Occam’s razor, dust should have been the first hypothesis.

The logic of the multiverse explains why it ended up being the last.

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VunderGuy, also in relation to your mistaken belief that entanglement travels at some finite speed, it is interesting to note that note only is entanglement 'instantaneous' in regards to space time, but that entanglement can also 'reach back in space-time' to effect the state of a particle a time in the past: Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past - April 23, 2012 Excerpt: According to the famous words of Albert Einstein, the effects of quantum entanglement appear as "spooky action at a distance". The recent experiment has gone one remarkable step further. "Within a naïve classical world view, quantum mechanics can even mimic an influence of future actions on past events", says Anton Zeilinger. http://phys.org/news/2012-04-quantum-physics-mimics-spooky-action.html "If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects mimic not only instantaneous action-at-a-distance but also, as seen here, influence of future actions on past events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded." Asher Peres, Delayed choice for entanglement swapping. J. Mod. Opt. 47, 139-143 (2000). You can see a more complete explanation of the startling results of the experiment at the 9:11 minute mark of the following video Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment Explained - 2014 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HLjpj4Nt4 In the preceding experiment, besides the centrality of 'consciously knowing' to the experiment, it is also important to note that free will is of primary importance in the experiment as well: What Does Quantum Physics Have to Do with Free Will? - By Antoine Suarez - July 22, 2013 Excerpt: What is more, recent experiments are bringing to light that the experimenter’s free will and consciousness should be considered axioms (founding principles) of standard quantum physics theory. So for instance, in experiments involving “entanglement” (the phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”), to conclude that quantum correlations of two particles are nonlocal (i.e. cannot be explained by signals traveling at velocity less than or equal to the speed of light), it is crucial to assume that the experimenter can make free choices, and is not constrained in what orientation he/she sets the measuring devices. To understand these implications it is crucial to be aware that quantum physics is not only a description of the material and visible world around us, but also speaks about non-material influences coming from outside the space-time.,,, https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-does-quantum-physics-have-do-free-will How Free Will Works (In Quantum Mechanics) - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMp30Q8OGOE In other words, if my conscious choices really are just merely the result of whatever state the material particles in my brain happen to be in in the past (deterministic) how in blue blazes are my choices instantaneously effecting the state of material particles into the past?,,, These experiments from quantum mechanics are simply impossible on a reductive materialism (determinism) view of reality!bornagain77
April 22, 2014
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VunderGuy:
trying to transport something, like say, a human, is HOW far away, in your opinion, or, at least, how difficult?
I have a video on that topic: New Breakthrough in (Quantum) Teleportation - video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqZI31udJg Quote from video: "There are 10^28 atoms in the human body.,, The amount of data contained in the whole human,, is 3.02 x 10^32 gigabytes of information. Using a high bandwidth transfer that data would take about 4.5 x 10^18 years to teleport 1 time. That is 350,000 times the age of the universe." also of note: (A fun talk on teleportation - Professor Samuel Braunstein - http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~schmuel/tport.htmlbornagain77
April 22, 2014
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@bornagain77 So, what you're saying is that, while REALLY small things can be teleported or entangled, trying to transport something, like say, a human, is HOW far away, in your opinion, or, at least, how difficult?VunderGuy
April 22, 2014
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Axel, I did not quote John Star from a video but from this website: http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research13.htmlbornagain77
April 20, 2014
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VunderGuy, you will have yo dig into the engineering details (if they are available on the web) to see how they devised a camera that can take a trillion pictures a second. I take their word for it since they are showing the results right there in the video I linked. Entanglement is indeed instantaneous. As far as I know, all conjectures trying to show that entanglement travels at some finite speed have been overturned. Teleportation uses entanglement to accomplish teleportation of atoms and photons, with the caveat being that the decoding bits used to measure the teleported photons or atoms must be transmitted over classical channels.bornagain77
April 20, 2014
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Hi BA77. Could you please tell me how to find the video of the NDE of the John Star you mention in #7, please? I've tried, but to no avail. Thank you.Axel
April 20, 2014
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@bornagain Also, I've looked around and quantum entanglement and teleportation still confound me, but I'm fairly certain that neither is instantaneous, and that things using them simply travel at 10000 times light-speed.VunderGuy
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@bornagain "(of note: light travels approx. 1 foot in a nanosecond (billionth of a second) whilst the camera used in the experiment takes a trillion pictures a second):" How does that work, exactly? Wouldn't the camera have to be faster than light to take so many pictures of it or am I confusing the fact it's taking trillions of pictures per second for actual speed?VunderGuy
April 20, 2014
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And, we have 'observational' evidence for both time dilation and tunnel curvature from Near Death Experience testimonies. Here are a few quotes for time dilation:
'In the 'spirit world,,, instantly, there was no sense of time. See, everything on earth is related to time. You got up this morning, you are going to go to bed tonight. Something is new, it will get old. Something is born, it's going to die. Everything on the physical plane is relative to time, but everything in the spiritual plane is relative to eternity. Instantly I was in total consciousness and awareness of eternity, and you and I as we live in this earth cannot even comprehend it, because everything that we have here is filled within the veil of the temporal life. In the spirit life that is more real than anything else and it is awesome. Eternity as a concept is awesome. There is no such thing as time. I knew that whatever happened was going to go on and on.' In The Presence Of Almighty God – The NDE of Mickey Robinson – video https://vimeo.com/92172680 'When you die, you enter eternity. It feels like you were always there, and you will always be there. You realize that existence on Earth is only just a brief instant.' Dr. Ken Ring - has extensively studied Near Death Experiences 'Earthly time has no meaning in the spirit realm. There is no concept of before or after. Everything - past, present, future - exists simultaneously.' - Kimberly Clark Sharp - NDE Experiencer 'There is no way to tell whether minutes, hours or years go by. Existence is the only reality and it is inseparable from the eternal now.' - John Star - NDE Experiencer
And here are a few quotes, from near death experience, for tunnel curvature to a higher dimension:
"Very often as they're moving through the tunnel, there's a very bright mystical light ... not like a light we're used to in our earthly lives. People call this mystical light, brilliant like a million times a million suns..." - Jeffrey Long M.D. - has studied NDE's extensively "I started to move toward the light. The way I moved, the physics, was completely different than it is here on Earth. It was something I had never felt before and never felt since. It was a whole different sensation of motion. I obviously wasn't walking or skipping or crawling. I was not floating. I was flowing. I was flowing toward the light. I was accelerating and I knew I was accelerating, but then again, I didn't really feel the acceleration. I just knew I was accelerating toward the light. Again, the physics was different - the physics of motion of time, space, travel. It was completely different in that tunnel, than it is here on Earth. I came out into the light and when I came out into the light, I realized that I was in heaven." Barbara Springer - Near Death Experience - The Tunnel - video https://vimeo.com/79072924 “I was in a body, and the only way that I can describe it was a body of energy, or of light. And this body had a form. It had a head, it had arms and it had legs. And it was like it was made out of light. And it was everything that was me. All of my memories, my consciousness, everything.”,,, “And then this vehicle formed itself around me. Vehicle is the only thing, or tube, or something, but it was a mode of transportation that’s for sure! And it formed around me. And there was no one in it with me. I was in it alone. But I knew there were other people ahead of me and behind me. What they were doing I don’t know, but there were people ahead of me and people behind me, but I was alone in my particular conveyance. And I could see out of it. And it went at a tremendously, horrifically, rapid rate of speed. But it wasn’t unpleasant. It was beautiful in fact. I was reclining in this thing, I wasn’t sitting straight up, but I wasn’t lying down either. I was sitting back. And it was just so fast!" – Vicki’s NDE – Blind since birth – Near Death Experience Tunnel - Speed Of Light - Turin Shroud - video http://www.vimeo.com/18371644
,,,Yet, even though light has this 'eternal' attribute in regards to our temporal framework of time, for us to hypothetically travel at the speed of light, in this universe, will still only get us to first base as far as quantum entanglement, or teleportation, are concerned. Light and Quantum Entanglement Reflect Some Characteristics Of God - video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4102182 Science vs God: Bryan Enderle at TEDxUCDavis - video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn7YQOzNuSc That is to say, traveling at the speed of light will only get us to the place where time, as we understand it, comes to complete stop for light, i.e. gets us to the eternal, 'past and future folding into now', framework of time. Moreover, hypothetically traveling at the speed of light in this universe would be instantaneous travel for the person going at the speed of light. This is because time does not pass for them, yet, and this is a very big ‘yet’ to take note of; this ‘timeless’ travel is still not instantaneous and transcendent to our temporal framework of time (as quantum teleportation is), i.e. Speed of light travel, to our temporal frame of reference, is still not completely transcendent of our framework since light appears to take time to travel from our temporal perspective. Yet, in quantum teleportation/entanglement of information, the ‘time not passing’, i.e. ‘eternal’, framework is not only achieved in the speed of light framework/dimension, but is also ‘instantaneously’ achieved in our temporal framework. That is to say, the instantaneous entanglement/travel of quantum information is instantaneous to both the temporal and speed of light frameworks, not just the speed of light framework.
Looking beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory – 29 October 2012 Excerpt: “Our result gives weight to the idea that quantum correlations somehow arise from outside spacetime, in the sense that no story in space and time can describe them,” http://www.quantumlah.org/highlight/121029_hidden_influences.php
Information teleportation/travel is not limited by time, nor space, in any way, shape or form, in any frame of reference, as light is seemingly limited to us in this temporal framework. Thus ‘pure transcendent information’ (in quantum teleportaion experiments) is shown to be timeless (eternal) and completely transcendent of all material frameworks. Moreover, concluding from all lines of evidence we now have (many of which I have not specifically listed here); transcendent, eternal, infinite information is indeed real and the framework in which ‘It’ resides is the primary reality (highest dimension) that can exist, (in so far as our limited perception of a primary reality, highest dimension, can be discerned).
"An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality" Akiane Kramarik - Child Prodigy - John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Moreover, as with time dilation and tunnel curvature, we have observational evidence from a Near Death Experience for this 'highest' dimension. This following video interview of a Harvard Neurosurgeon, who had a Near Death Experience (NDE), is very interesting. His NDE was rather unique from typical NDEs in that he had completely lost brain wave function for 7 days while the rest of his body was on life support. As such he had what can be termed a ‘pure consciousness’ NDE that was dramatically different from the ‘typical’ Judeo-Christian NDEs of going through a tunnel to a higher heavenly dimension, seeing departed relatives, and having a life review. His NDE featured his ‘consciousness’ going outside the confines of space/time, matter/energy altogether to experience ‘non-locally’ what he termed ‘the Core’, i.e to experience God. It is also interesting to note that he retained a ‘finite sense of self-identity’, as Theism would hold, and did not blend into the infinite consciousness/omniscience of God, as pantheism would hold.
A Conversation with Near Death Experiencer Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander III, M.D. with Steve Paulson (Interviewer) - video http://www.btci.org/bioethics/2012/videos2012/vid3.html
There are many more nuances that can be drawn out, (such as the hellish nature of eternity at blackholes and Christ reconciliation of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics) but what I have listed so far HeKS should be more than sufficient for getting the point across that the Theist has far more going for him, in terms of empirical evidence, to verify his belief in higher dimensions above this one than the atheists has for infinite multiverses parallel to this one. Verse and music:
2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows. Evanescence - The Other Side (Lyric Video) http://www.vevo.com/watch/evanescence/the-other-side-lyric-video/USWV41200024?source=instantsearch
bornagain77
April 20, 2014
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HeKS, this it might be of interest for you. Multiverses are basically generated purely in the imagination of atheists/materialists to try to increase the probabilistic resources so as to account for the fine tuning of this universe for not only life, but intelligent life like us.
The Fine-Tuning for Discoverability - Robin Collins - March 22, 2014 http://home.messiah.edu/~rcollins/Fine-tuning/Greer-Heard%20Forum%20paper%20draft%20for%20posting.pdf The Place of Life and Man in Nature: Defending the Anthropocentric Thesis - Michael J. Denton - February 25, 2013 Summary (page 11) For complex beings of high metabolic rate, the designs actualized in complex Terran forms are all that can be. There are no alternative physiological designs in the domain of carbon-based life that can achieve the high metabolic activity manifest in man and other higher organisms. http://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/view/BIO-C.2013.1/BIO-C.2013.1
But what is interesting to point out in this is that not only do atheists have no empirical evidence for a multiverse, save for in their fertile imagination, to explain why the universe is so finely-tuned for life, and for higher life such as ourselves in particular, but in such imagined scenarios, where anything must happen in order to explain what we do see happening, then, by necessity, ANYTHING THAT CAN HAPPEN AND WILL HAPPEN in such a unconstrained scenario,,
But Who Needs Reality-Based Thinking Anyway? Not the New Cosmologists - Denyse O'Leary January 2, 2014 Excerpt: Logic and reason are likewise irrelevant. Consider the multiverse claim that there are "infinite copies of you and your loved ones leading lives, up until this moment, that are absolutely identical to yours." Mathematician George F. R. Ellis notes that, if so, the deep mysteries of nature are too absurd to be explicable and that the proposed nine types of multiverse in one scheme are "mutually exclusive." True, but in a multiverse, "inexplicable" is okay. "Absurd" and "mutually exclusive" are meaningless concepts. It is equally meaningless to assert that one event is more probable than another. As David Berlinski puts it, "Why is Newton's universal law of gravitation true? No need to ask. In another universe, it is not"(Devil's Delusion, p. 124).,,, Science writer John Horgan pointedly asks, "Is theorizing about parallel universes immoral?" "These multiverse theories all share the same fundamental defect: They can be neither confirmed nor falsified. Hence, they don't deserve to be called scientific, according to the well-known criterion proposed by the philosopher Karl Popper. Some defenders of multiverses and strings mock skeptics who raise the issue of falsification as "Popperazi" -- which is cute but not a counterargument. Multiverse theories aren't theories -- they're science fictions, theologies, works of the imagination unconstrained by evidence." http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/01/but_who_needs_r080281.html
Moreover, whereas the atheist who postulates, without empirical warrant, a infinite multiverse simply to get away from the Theistic conclusions for why the universe is the way it is, Theistic conclusions he is unwilling, or unable, to accept for whatever severely misguided reason, the Theist, on the other hand, does have empirical warrant for his belief that this universe originates, and is sustained, by God from a 'highest' transcendent dimension. i.e. That there actually is 'higher dimensions' above this one, as the Theist holds, is verified by Special Relativity, General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. And these higher dimensions are even verified by direct observation in Near Death Experience testimonies. Which is a claim the atheists are no where near making. To lay this evidence out, ‘if’ a hypothetical observer were to accelerate to the speed of light, time, as we understand it, would come to a complete stop for the hypothetical observer. To grasp the whole ‘time coming to a complete stop at the speed of light’ concept a little more easily, imagine moving away from the face of a clock at the speed of light. Would not the hands on the clock stay stationary as you moved away from the face of the clock at the speed of light? Moving away from the face of a clock at the speed of light happens to be the same ‘thought experiment’ that gave Einstein his breakthrough insight into e=mc2.
Albert Einstein - Special Relativity - Insight Into Eternity - 'thought experiment' video http://www.metacafe.com/w/6545941/ "I've just developed a new theory of eternity." Albert Einstein - The Einstein Factor - Reader's Digest - 2005
Some may think that time, as we understand it, coming to a complete stop at the speed of light is pure science fiction, but, as incredible as it sounds, Einstein’s infamous thought experiment has many lines of evidence now supporting it.
Velocity time dilation tests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Velocity_time_dilation_tests "The laws of relativity have changed timeless existence from a theological claim to a physical reality. Light, you see, is outside of time, a fact of nature proven in thousands of experiments at hundreds of universities. I don’t pretend to know how tomorrow can exist simultaneously with today and yesterday. But at the speed of light they actually and rigorously do. Time does not pass." Richard Swenson - More Than Meets The Eye, Chpt. 12
This following confirmation of time dilation is my favorite since they have actually caught time dilation on film (of note: light travels approx. 1 foot in a nanosecond (billionth of a second) whilst the camera used in the experiment takes a trillion pictures a second):
Amazing --- light filmed at 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second! - video (so fast that at 9:00 Minute mark of video the time dilation effect of relativity is caught on film) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA
This higher dimension, 'eternal', inference for the time framework of light is not only warranted by empirical evidence but is also warranted by logic, because light is not 'frozen within time' yet it is shown that time, as we understand it, does not pass for light. The only way this is possible is if light is indeed of a higher dimensional value of time than our temporal time is. Otherwise light would simply be ‘frozen within time’ to our temporal point of observation. Another line of evidence that supports the inference that ‘tomorrow can exist simultaneously with today and yesterday’, at the ‘eternal’ speed of light, is visualizing what would happen if a hypothetical observer were to approach the speed of light. Please note, at the 3:22 minute mark of the following video, when the 3-Dimensional world ‘folds and collapses’ into a tunnel shape as a ‘hypothetical’ observer moves towards the ‘higher dimension’ of the speed of light, (Of note: This following video was made by two Australian University Physics Professors with a supercomputer.).
Approaching The Speed Of Light - Optical Effects – video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnHTKZBTI4
Of related note to this is 'flatland':
Dr Quantum - Flatland - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyTxCsIXE4
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HeKS, as far as I know you are basically right save for, I believe, the 10^500 multiverse of string theory which was developed to try to reconcile General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. But even there the 10^500 multiverse was developed not from what was directly observed empirically, but from what was desired theoretically.bornagain77
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I'm not sure if anyone is still reading and commenting on this thread, but if so, I'd like to get some input on something. I'm having a discussion with someone elsewhere regarding the multiverse, and this guy is convinced that multiverse models capable of accounting for the fine-tuning of the universe were developed in isolation from any consideration of the fine-tuning and were not at all motivated by the findings of fine-tuning, like the cosmological constant. I'm not entirely sure what to make of this. This seems to me to be a rewriting of history. As far as I've been able to tell based on the comments of the very people who developed and believe in these multiverse models, they came about directly as an attempt to account for the unusual features and values of our universe, including the fine-tuning of its initial conditions. This is the impression I get from Rees, Guth, Linde, Susskind, Tegmark, and more. Paul Davies seems to suggest the same thing. And the paper, "Multiverses and physical cosmology" (G.F.R. Ellis, U. Kirchner and W.R. Stoeger, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town), says this:
[T]he whole reason for the anthropic literature is precisely the fact that biophilic universes are clearly highly improbable within the set of all possible universes... We are working in a context where large improbabilities are the order of the day. That is why multiverse concepts were introduced in the first place - to try to introduce some form of scientific explanation into a context where the probabilities of existence of specific universe models preferred by observation are known to be very small
These are the types of comments I find everywhere I look. And I mean, when talking about the types of multiverse models that could possibly account for fine-tuning in our universe, we're mostly talking about inflationary multiverses, which are models within inflationary theory, which was itself developed to account for certain values observed in our universe. And Chaotic Inflation, which seems to be the primary model that would allow for the other universes to have different values for their physical laws and constants, seems to have admittedly been proposed as an alternative to standard inflation specifically because the standard model of inflation didn't properly account for most of the fine-tuning. Am I missing something here? Because based on all the information I've been able to find from all these supporters of the multiverse, the multiverse models that could account for fine-tuning (as opposed to the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics) were specifically developed to account for fine-tuning, and this other guy I'm talking to seems to be building some kind of alterna-history of the relevant science.HeKS
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Mapou, in a way I am glad that I am not a scientist. I don't have to worry about what concept is going to go south tomorrow and what I can really believe and trust in - it is bad enough to live in the instability of politics and finance. For me when it comes to knowledge to an extent ignorance is bliss. As my dad said many years ago when he was alive "believe only 1/4 of what you hear and 1/2 of what you see." When I was trucking before retirement I was listening to a retired pastor on the radio say that when he graduated from seminary that he thought that he knew everything but toward the end of his life he could truly say that he knew nothing. The world around him grew over the years and with it all the gray area where answers are nebulous and very murky. As a mechanical engineer once told me everything is putty. So in a sense everything tends to be undefined in the strictest sense and we are left knowing much less than we thought we knew. To me science seems to be quite arrogant at times and as the movie line puts it they think that they are one step ahead when they are actually two steps behind.fossil
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The day will come soon when the gravity waves idea will be seen for what it is, pure Einsteinian crackpottery, on a par with the flat earth hypothesis. Soon, people will realize that Isaac Newton was right to assume that gravity was instantaneous, which makes it a non-local phenomenon. As we all know, nonlocality is anathema to the Einsteinian universe, what with Einstein's bone-headed condemnation of spooky action at a distance.Mapou
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Well good for Dr. Sheldon. I believe he unfairly got hammered pretty hard by Luke Barnes for going against the flow like he did.,,,, For myself, not being that well versed in the theoretical underpinnings that led to the prediction, nor having the wherewithal to discern the just how much weight should be given to these particular empirical findings, it has been somewhat of a wait and see attitude for me. Which is, I guess, the exact position that we are now in.,,,,, Another thing that has been of particular interest for me to learn in all this, is to learn just how quickly materialists are to embrace findings that would lead to the epistemological failure of science itself. Bruce Gordon talks a bit about that here:
A Matter of Considerable Gravity: On the Purported Detection of Gravitational Waves and Cosmic Inflation - Bruce Gordon - April 4, 2014 Excerpt: Thirdly, at least two paradoxes result from the inflationary multiverse proposal that suggest our place in such a multiverse must be very special: the "Boltzmann Brain Paradox" and the "Youngness Paradox." In brief, if the inflationary mechanism is autonomously operative in a way that generates a multiverse, then with probability indistinguishable from one (i.e., virtual necessity) the typical observer in such a multiverse is an evanescent thermal fluctuation with memories of a past that never existed (a Boltzmann brain) rather than an observer of the sort we take ourselves to be. Alternatively, by a second measure, post-inflationary universes should overwhelmingly have just been formed, which means that our existence in an old universe like our own has a probability that is effectively zero (i.e., it's nigh impossible). So if our universe existed as part of such a multiverse, it would not be at all typical, but rather infinitely improbable (fine-tuned) with respect to its age and compatibility with stable life-forms. http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/04/a_matter_of_con084001.html
Another voice here:
Why I Still Doubt Inflation, in Spite of Gravitational Wave Findings By John Horgan - March 17, 2014 Excerpt: Indeed, inflation, like string theory, has always suffered from what is sometimes called the “Alice’s Restaurant Problem.” Like the diner eulogized in the iconic Arlo Guthrie song, inflation comes in so many different versions that it can give you “anything you want.” In other words, it cannot be falsified, and so–like psychoanalysis, Marxism and other overly flexible hypotheses (mmm Darwinism?)–it is not really a scientific theory. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/03/17/why-i-still-doubt-inflation-in-spite-of-gravity-wave-findings/
Even Max Tegmark admits 'almost' as much here:
WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT? Infinity - Max Tegmark - January 2014 Excerpt: Physics is all about predicting the future from the past, but inflation seems to sabotage this: when we try to predict the probability that something particular will happen, inflation always gives the same useless answer: infinity divided by infinity. The problem is that whatever experiment you make, inflation predicts that there will be infinitely many copies of you far away in our infinite space, obtaining each physically possible outcome, and despite years of tooth-grinding in the cosmology community, no consensus has emerged on how to extract sensible answers from these infinities. So strictly speaking, we physicists are no longer able to predict anything at all! This means that today’s best theories similarly need a major shakeup, by retiring an incorrect assumption. Which one? MAX TEGMARK – Physicist http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/12/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement-edge-org
Which one to retire? HMMM how about atheistic materialism which led to the epistemological failure (i.e. the insanity) in the first place? It is also interesting to point out that Dr. Craig's Kalam Cosmological argument actually receives a boost if the gravitational waves are found to be correct since Dr. Craig has been arguing from Vilenkin's mathematical proof, which takes inflation into account, all along:
Do New Big Bang Findings Support the Bible? (William Lane Craig, PhD) - video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI9DXoGhPws
along that line, here is another voice that agrees with Dr. Craig that this, if it tuns out to be true, adds evidence for the beginning of the universe:
New Big Bang evidence supports Biblical creation, says Orthodox physicist By David Shamah - March 19, 2014, The Times of Israel Excerpt: “One thing the announcement does do is make it clear that the universe had a definite starting point – a creation – as described in the book of Genesis,” Bar Ilan University physics Professor Nathan Aviezer told the Times of Israel. “To deny this now is to deny scientific fact.” Professor Aviezer goes on to say: “Without addressing who or what caused it, the mechanics of the creation process in the Big Bang match the Genesis story perfectly,” he said. “If I had to make up a theory to match the first passages in Genesis, the Big Bang theory would be it.” http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-new-big-bang-evidence-creation-is-a-fact/
Thus no matter how the evidence turns out (my bet is with Dr. Sheldon) the atheists still can't seem to catch a break no matter which way it turns out. a few 'Easter' notes:
Turin Shroud Hologram Reveals The Words 'The Lamb' - short video http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=J21MECNU Solid Oval Object Under The Beard http://shroud3d.com/findings/solid-oval-object-under-the-beard
Verse and Music:
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! Kutless - Take Me In (Holy Of Holies) – video http://www.metacafe.com/w/4716801
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