The Grand Design

There is no grand design! That is something that I started believing for some time now, but for the obvious reasons, cannot prove or confirm. It seems something similar has been told recently by one of the best brains of our generations :

“One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.”  The Grand Design

I am finding myself more inclined to this since over the last few days I am hearing one sentence more than anything else, ” everything happens for good”. Of course, I don’t want it to be false (just for the sake of usual good regards), I do not see any reason why everything happens for good. It is one way of giving ourselves thinking there is a design ‘meant’ for us.

If everything does not happen for good, then what for they happen, how does they work ? Any rules or processes? The genesis ?

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist….It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” – The Grand Design (Hawking and Mlodinow 2010).

Definitely revealing. Probably it is recommended to read this book. You may or may not believe it, but it will allow you to open new avenues of thoughts.

The authors explain, in a manner consistent with M-theory, that as the Earth is only one of several planets in our solar system, and as our Milky Way galaxy is only one of many galaxies, the same may apply to our universe itself: that is, our universe may be one of a huge number of universes. The book concludes with the statement that only some universes of the multiple universes (or multiverse) support life forms. We, of course, are located in one of those universes. The laws of nature that are required for life forms to exist appear in some universes by pure chance, Hawking and Mlodinow explain (see Anthropic Principle).

What he’s actually saying in the book is that when we study the universe’s origins, we have to work our way back from the present, rather than assuming there’s an arbitrary point 13.7 billion years ago when Someone pressed the button on a cosmic stopwatch. And when you look at it that way, the universe looks more and more like a quantum phenomenon, in which a multitude of histories diverge. This is what Hawking calls top-down cosmology.

It seems Stephen Hawking’s argument is normative—it’s about how to study the universe—rather than descriptive. He… sorry, we just dozed off for a second. This is boring… let’s get back to the “there is no God” stuff!

“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something,” he concluded.

I’ve got problems. And I will solve them.

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