More than likely it didn’t. So then what? Is the universe cyclic, with no known beginning? Of course, this is the kind of model Roger Penrose proposed in Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (2010). You can read more about Penrose’s conformal cyclic cosmology theory at Wikipedia. What If the Universe … Read more
Fascinating . . . . What Is the Universe? Real Physics Has Some Mind-Bending Answers Science says the universe could be a hologram, a computer program, a black hole or a bubble—and there are ways to check By Victoria Jaggardsmithsonian.com September 15, 2014 The questions are as big as the universe and (almost) as old … Read more
This is a 10-part series from The Open University, featuring Professor Russell Stannard exploring the BIG questions – What is consciousness? What is free will? What caused the Big Bang? What is time? Each “episode” is relatively short, between 7 and 14 minutes, so these are bite size examinations of the big questions. The Boundaries … Read more
I have only skimmed this article, but I see in this Big History approach the possibility of its use in integral theory to replace Ken Wilber’s teleological version of cosmological evolution. This could only be a good thing for integral theory since Wilber’s misconceptions about evolution have been widely criticized. By way of clarification, here … Read more