THE KNOWN INSTANTANEOUSLY LEAPS FROM THE UNKNOWN

Does the scientific method have any exceptions?  Is observation always required?  The big bang singularity’s appearance out of nowhere is a tabula rasa moment.  Nothing else exists.  Instantaneously the “cosmic egg” begins to “expand” into the “space” it creates for itself.  The law of cooling is invoked:  as a hot object expands so it cools.  On an immediate basis quantum uncertainties and fluctuations make their appearance.  Does the singularity begin its “life” as a wave or a particle?  Or both?  Why and how does it take the very first, initial, tiniest step toward expansion?  At the moment of creation is it spherical?  Why not any other shape?  Does it have a shape?  It produces the physics we see today but its physics is absolutely and totally unknowable.  Does its physics exist today?  If not, did its physics vanish in the twinkling of the eye, the moment expansion began, and today’s physics was en masse substituted?  The singularity, obeying none of today’s laws, appears from nowhere, in less than a Planck instant of time all the laws it obeys vanish, wink out, and all laws physics knows today materialize.  This transformation from an unknown law to a known law is many orders of magnitude less plausible, in need of a very precise explanation, than the singularity’s appearance out of nowhere.  Nobody knows what happened prior to the first tick of the Planck clock and everybody knows what happened at every subsequent tick.  If this is not tautology, nothing is.  The Planck constants are the first to materialize out of the unknown physics.  As the clock is run backward all the Planck units are available and utilized, and suddenly, without explanation, they vanish.  But, somehow, the idea of expansion does not vanish, it proceeds to the origin, to Time Zero.  As does the idea of “space” and “time.”  Thus, at time zero, can the energy be plugged into E = mc², does the speed of light exist?  Surely, mass does not exist therefore E = mc² can not exist, not if the scientific method is followed.  The singularity knows no thing about the Planck clock nonetheless it ticks off the minimum Planck time, the very first quantum of action, to permit for physicists to then formulate intelligent statements as to what subsequently happens to energy, expansion, baryogenesis, matter, antimatter, etc. etc.  This also gets physicists wondering why the physical constants are aligned so precisely as to permit for life to exist.  Yet all of this “happens” during the first instant of time, today’s physics is for all practical purposes created in less time (Δt) than it takes for a quantum of action to complete itself from no reality any physicist can intelligibly describe in his imagination, let alone if the scientific method’s rigors are applied.  How big is this intellectual leap?  Is this not the least satisfactory of all leaps of the imagination?  This is not merely a matter of plugging a few leaks.  It is not even a thousand tsunamis hitting all at once.  The leap’s magnitude is the difference between absolute nothing and all the books ever written on physics.  Every article, experiment, peer reviewed paper, everything.  None of it has any justification, none of it is explicable.[1]  Yet it all materializes instantaneously.

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[1]   From The Encyclopedia of Physics (Lerner, 1991):  When “density becomes infinite, creating what is called a singularity of space-time, a place where the notion of space-time as a continuum or manifold breaks down, as do all the laws of physics [break down] because they are formulated on a space-time background.”  [p. 102].