Origin Of Universe & Cosmology & Philosophy

[Light Eye]

Dear Friends,

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaSuch.htm

Be Well, Be Love.

David

The Origin of the Universe and Contemporary Cosmology and Philosophy
Jan Such
University of Poznan
such@... (/group/asc2k/post?postID=ItHu03ScSaL7l6zhlYnWUjbSpeLEdpPGA7zyXY EO8KFrXXYpfDcIPBNOK6kCvKhK4wfbnNEdEQygI2ND-w)

ABSTRACT: Since the 1970s both in physics and cosmology, there has been a
controversy on the subject of the ?beginning of the universe.? This indicates
that this intriguing problem has reached scientific consideration and, perhaps,
a solution. The aim of this paper is to try to answer the question as to whether
the origin of the world has slipped out of the hands of philosophers (and
theologians), and passed in its entirety into the realm of science, and whether
science is able to solve this problem by itself. While presenting the main views
in this dispute, I try to show also that metaphysics, philosophy of nature and
epistemology provide important premises, proposals and methods that are
indispensable for a solution. These premises concern such issues as the
extremely subtle problem of the sense and existence of ?nothing,? the problem of
extrapolation of local physics onto the large-scale areas of the universe, the
epistemological status of cosmological principles, as
well as problems of the origins of the laws of nature. This last issue is
entangled in the difficult problem of the ?rationality of the world? and the
problem of overcoming the dichotomy of laws and preconditions, according to
which the conditions and laws are independent of each other.



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[M.W.]

Dear David, I don't know how you find so much
arcane material to keep asc2k so well supplied
with weird brain twisters. Of course you have
my sincere appreciation for so helping me to
continue my quasi education.

The paper you reccomended below does stimulate
some twisty thoughts.

It seems to me that the idea of nothingness that
occupies space is an absolute impossibility. The
One Creator, creating, cannot provide the feature
of true emptyness. The all-prevading vacuum
plenenum is the most dense psuedo substance
imaginable...the fact that we cannot perceive
it does not change that reality.

I think this ties in with the idea that the
Cosmos has no border -- such as we may think of
a Cosmos "balloon" sitting in the middle of a
vast empty room. The truth of the matter is
that there is no such "commonsense" empty room
of uncharted space that is needed to give the
idea of a "border" any real significance.

To repeat, there can be no such imagined
"nothingness" surrounding the cosmos. Just
how would the Creator go about creating
nothingness? The closest IT could manage would
be a zero-point field of intelligent infinity.
Something with a density that makes lead in
comparison infinitly less solid than a misty
vapour is hardly equatable with "nothingness".

I see that I sound offensively cocksure of my
statements above. Sorry. Its not that I'm so sure
of anything but rather that it would take too
much extra writing to be properly timid and
suitably humble and cautious. (:>))

Question. What, if any, relationship does
the mysterious, so-called "Dark Matter have
with the Zero Point Field?

Best. billybobnothingness

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>
> Dear Friends,
>
> http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaSuch.htm
>
> Be Well, Be Love.
>
> David
>
> The Origin of the Universe and Contemporary Cosmology and Philosophy
> Jan Such
> University of Poznan
> such@...


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