Lecture 13 - The End of the Universe
References:
- Paul Davies "The Last Three Minutes"
- John Polkinghorne "Science and Christian
Belief"
- Wim Rietkerk "The Future Great Planet
Earth"
How will the Universe end? Science says
- badly!
Continual expansion -> colder and
colder (2nd law TD) or a "Big Crunch".
Cometary collision?
Bertrand Russell and Stephen Weinberg's
reactions.
Absence of hope in our society?
Does Universe have escape velocity?
- Earth - 11 km/s
- Solar System - 618 km/s
- Black hole - 300,000 km/s
Gravity competes with rate of expansion.
What is weight of Universe? ?
Only 10% (some say 1%) of Universe is
luminous. Rest is "dark matter".
(but we don't know the neutrino mass.
It is << mass electron)
- WIMPS - weakly interacting massive
particles - not sure they exist at all.
Speculation on survival strategies.
The Dragon's Egg by Robert Foreword
- life on a neutron star.
Freeman Dyson - spend more and more
time in hibernation.
If the Universe contracts ........
Coleman and de Luccia: Universe may
be in a 'false vacuum state', a metastable excited state, and, at
any time, may tunnel through the barrier to its ground state.
No warning! c.f. Luke 21:34 and 1Thess
5:2.
Does the Universe make total sense or
not?
- Life will provide for its own continuance.
Tipler's Omega Point.
- It is in the totally reliable care
of a loving Creator.
All creation matters to God.
What about 2 Peter 3:10?
- "but the earth and the works upon
it will be found"
The "new heaven and new earth" are not
brand new, but re-created - ex vetere, not ex nihilo
-
like 2Cor 5:17.
Creation will be liberated - Rom 8:18->
Relation of this creation to the next?
Different - Rev 21:4, Is 65:25, Is 11:6-9.
Engine of evolution is the engine of
cancer.
Bored with everlasting life?
A different dimension? Flatland analogy.
Jesus in his resurrection body already
in 5D?
Our software gets new hardware?
God in a still higher dimension?
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