Is the History of our Universe Finite?

Modern cosmology indicates that our universe has a finite age. However, it is not understood whether the initial state before the Big Bang is finite in history or not. In this article, I show by simple arguments that the initial state must be finite in history if it is real. If the initial state is...

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1. VerfasserIn: Chan, Man Ho (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge [2019]
In: Theology and science
Jahr: 2019, Band: 17, Heft: 2, Seiten: 248-256
IxTheo Notationen:CF Christentum und Wissenschaft
NBD Schöpfungslehre
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Theology
B the existence of god
B Philosophy of religion
B Big Bang
B Cosmology
B Cosmological Argument
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Zusammenfassung:Modern cosmology indicates that our universe has a finite age. However, it is not understood whether the initial state before the Big Bang is finite in history or not. In this article, I show by simple arguments that the initial state must be finite in history if it is real. If the initial state is not real, a special transition is needed to specify the beginning of the real time. Moreover, if our universe is just one of the many universes, it can be shown that the history of the universe generator must also be finite.
ISSN:1474-6719
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1596314