Did the Universe Emerge from Nothing? Reductive vs. Holistic Cosmology

Volume 12 No 4 (2014)

Robert W. Boyer

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2014.12.4.777

Abstract

‘Consensus’ big bang theory is frequently associated with a reductive view of the universe as emerging from an infinitely dense, infinitesimally small singularity or even nothing (ex nihilo). But wouldn’t nothing mean no potential, energy, temperature, information, or random quantum fields to bang out when the ‘right values’ of ‘unstable nothing’ arose? Let us instead consider a coherent alternative, in which the universe emerged within an infinite eternal unified field that cannot be ‘banged out of.

Keywords

: inflationary cosmology, reductivism, nothingness, unified field, Vedic cosmology

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