How did Hawking manage to make a big bang possible without involving divine intervention?
About seventy years ago, when Edwin Hubble envisioned the distant galaxies and discovered that they were all moving away from us, thus paving the way for the Big Bang theory. Earlier, the scientists accepted the steady state theory. To solve the problem of receding according to which the formation of one hydrogen atom from nothing, in a cubic kilometer of space for a year, is enough to explain the receding of galaxies, when all the time matter is created to cover it up.
However, after this narrow explanation was not accepted, most of the scientists moved to the side of the big bang. But they ran into a problem. In the steady state theory there is no place for God. The universe has always existed and it will always continue to exist more or less in the same way. Many of the steady state scientists accused the Big Bang proponents of bringing God back in the back door. Dr. Hugh Ross, an astronomer with religious views, comparing the work of Einstein and Copernicus with the latest revelations about the Big Bang wrote, "The scholars of the 16th century feared the loss of respect for God and the Bible. Twentieth century scholars feared an increase in the dignity of these two."
Hawking defines himself as an atheist, therefore he is not at all interested in this question, even though he is a follower of the big bang and on April 24, '92 with the publication of studies that investigated the findings of the COBE satellite that this is the discovery of all time. These studies confirm that the universe originated from a "hot big bang," which means that all matter, energy, dimensions of length, width and height and time initially had an almost infinite pressure and temperature and came out of a space many times smaller than the point at the end of this sentence.
Commenting on the inability of non-believers to deal with data supporting a theistic view, Ross wrote, “In 1965 when the oscillating universe model first appeared...astronomers began an all-out effort to find enough mass to stop and reverse the expansion of the universe. All the evidence...pointed (and still points) in the opposite direction.”
"The oscillating universe," Ross explains, "is an idea that originated in Hinduism and has been welcomed by atheists and New Agers to explain how the universe, being in one of an infinite number of expansions and contractions, can exist as it does with just the right conditions To enable life and, according to their way of thinking, to cause life to arise from non-living matter."
Zvi Yanai's reaction
Hawking puts God back in the prayer books even in his previous statements, using the assumption that time did not exist before the big bang, and therefore the existence of God has no meaning either. In 1981, Zvi Yanai wrote in the magazine "Mechukot" that Hawking "settled the religious" when he made a big bang universe possible even then, but without the need for supernatural intervention.
Yanai mentions that in 1951 the Catholic Church adopted the Big Bang theory, being two years old at the most. The wisdom behind the adoption became clear in 1981 when a conference of cosmologists and physicists from all over the world was held in the Vatican. The Pope appeared before them, and announced that there is nothing preventing them from investigating everything related to the development of the universe from the moment of the Big Bang onwards, but they should not ask questions about the Big Bang itself because the Big Bang is the moment of divine creation. The Pope knew. that the astrophysicists cannot describe a situation where the energy reaches infinity and the density of matter reaches infinity and where there is no time and all the laws of the paragraph are squashed inside the point which is ten to the power minus twenty of the size of the atom. The Pope, John Paul II, knew that the physicists also have no answer to this matter, because this area is forbidden for physicists to move and approach and enter. This is a beautiful abstract point for philosophers and religious people.
Here Hawking entered the picture, saying that although he was the one who confirmed the existence of the singular point required by Einstein's theory of general relativity, and claimed that the theory of relativity disqualified itself as a theory capable of offering a complete and complete description of the universe because at its foundation stands that singular point that represents physical chaos and chaos, and therefore No script can be derived from it about the formation of the world - not why the universe looks the way it does, why it is homogeneous, and why it still has lumps of stars and galaxies. Hawking solves the problem by bypassing it: "It is true that physics can only talk about the universe starting from 10 to the power 35 seconds from the moment of the bang, or a little earlier when all the forces were united to the size of 10 to the power 43 centimeters."
"Ultimately, it is a point that occupies space and space, and therefore he can claim that the world has never been at a point that crushes all the laws of physics, and therefore it began with the same wave that stands at the foundation of the universe, and therefore since there is no problem of a beginning here, there is no problem of creation."
"It is not clear whether he remains faithful to the quantum size or the quantum structure of the universe by which he circumvented the God problem, or whether he returns back to a singular point but arrives at a solution that does not bring God there. As much as I have followed Hawking I do not believe that he will propose a theory that would confirm God's willingness or intervention. I still believe that Hawking is trying to find a rational answer to the shrinking of the universe without the intervention of higher forces."
Translation of Hawking's lecture on the origin of the universe, Hebrew University, 14/12/2006
