APPENDIX Z10: “The Free Lunch?”
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APPENDIX Z10:
“The Free Lunch?”
The estimable physicist/cosmologist Stephen
Hawking
Hawking
posits*
a
that “there is no God.” His (alleged) truism is
that
that
“there is, indeed, a free lunch.” What Hawking means
and articulates is that the entire universe more-or-less
spontaneously popped out of nothingness.
Hawking’s reasoning, as he explicitly articulates it, is that –
(A) since when one factors-in newly-hypothesized
dark energy*
b
(c.1998), positive and negative energy
mathematically balances-out the universe, then
(B) one can (allegedly) consequently conclude that
there is
there is
no God (necessary for Creation).
However, the Hawking logic
is fatally awed, as is more or
is fatally awed, as is more or
less obvious.
For (A) can be true, without (B) being true.
Meaning, (B) does not necessarily ow from (A).
Summa Metaphysica (rst volume 1988) along with
many
many
predecessor metaphysics formulations, some pre-dating it
by thousands of years, hypothesizes*
c
a net-
zero-balanced universe.
d
Some, if not the overwhelming
majority, of these
“net-zero” metaphysics, along with
“net-zero” metaphysics, along with
Summa Metaphysica, embrace a transcendent force
and/or a Divine in the creation equation. Even if
we are
we are
cumulatively hypothesized as being integral to the
Divine,
Divine,
as per Summa.
With due respect to
Hawking, not even a rock, let alone a
Hawking, not even a rock, let alone a
universe, spontaneously pops-out of nothingness.
Respectfully, giggling ve
years old girls frolicking at the
years old girls frolicking at the
seashore on a balmy June day, tip-toeing through the
foamy surf where ocean wavelets lap onto the beach,
did
did
not simply pop out of nothingness.
Respectfully.
***
*a
Summer 2011, see Hawking interview/feature on Wormhole Series on the Science
Channel. See his inter-related
book The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and
book The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and
Leonard Mlodinow, Bantam
Books, a division of Random House, NY 2010
Books, a division of Random House, NY 2010
*b
a hypothesis which started emerging in the contemporary scientic community in
the past 40 years, but mainly started gaining
traction since ~1998, when scientist
traction since ~1998, when scientist
Michael Turner
(University of Chicago) coined the term.
(University of Chicago) coined the term.
*c
see Summa Metaphysica: Volume I: God & Evil 1988: Unied Formulation
*
d
i.e. positive and negative energy balance-out the
universe
universe
