THE BIG BOUNCE. THE BIG BANG. THE BIG BANG CREATED ITS MIRROR IMAGE BIG BOUNCE. A SINGULAR BIG BANG FOLLOWED BY A SINGULAR BIG BOUNCE. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER WITHIN THE UNIVERSE OR ITS BOUNCE. Everything in the Universe is energy. Time is...
Causal Determinism. Determinism requires the world to be precise with mathematical certainty. An object or event is entirely determined by its initial states. The world is not inherently random; it only appears that way. Does infinity ever zero out? No, zero is not...
An endless past has no beginning. Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel is a thought experiment that illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. A fully occupied hotel with endless rooms may still accommodate additional guests infinitely. This...
An illustration of an asteroid slamming into Earth. A space rock this size would leave an enormous crater. (Image credit: SCIEPRO Via Getty Images). Asteroids that can hit the Earth are primarily in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. When an asteroid hits...
If something is working, it didn’t happen accidentally. Randomness can’t even build a bobsled—ditto for natural selection. Mechanical secular philosophy has more than a few spurious assumptions. The mechanism is often contrasted with teleological...
