01.23.11
Big bang, endless universes, and Kantian antinomies
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap4_2_1.htm
The resemblance of cosmological antitheses to Kantian antinomies (e.g. ‘there is no beginning in time, there is a beginning in time’) makes one suspicious of any simple answers, but it is intereting that Big Bang theory has a precise critique in the recent considerations of the universe before the Big Bang event.
Although we cannot use Kant to solve the problems of physics, we do know the symptoms of antinomial empiricism and are left to wonder at the characteristic dualism or dialectic that is clearly in some way a property of our instruments of thought.
Indeed, sure enough, in a recent new perspective, Endless Universe, Beyond The Big Bang, we have already the swinging of the pendulum in an attempt to proceed beyond the Big Bang by incorporating it in a scheme of larger, repeating, perhaps endless, cycles of cosmic evolution.
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February 2, 2011 at 7:21 am
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