well I'm fixing to disagree with
somebody who is a lot smarter than me so
if you enjoy a right proper train wreck
stay tuned in his book the grand design
Stephen Hawking said because there is a
law such as gravity the universe can and
will create itself from nothing
so right away right away I see a couple
of things that I want to ask dr. Hawking
number one
dr. Hawking when you use the word
nothing nothing
I wonder if you mean the same thing that
I mean when I say the word nothing you keep using that
word
usually what i mean when i say that word
is well the complete absence of
everything when you say the word nothing
at least in that statement
I don't think that that's what you mean
I do not think it means what you think it means
when we talk about the the vast black
empty space that existed before the
beginning of the universe
apparently you think that the law of
gravity already existed
I'm not quite sure that that's so but if
it was if it did exist that dr. Hawking
is not nothing
that is something another word that you
use here in this statement
I I would actually like a little bit of
clarification since we're using
descriptive language
I i want to be accurate as accurate as
possible
the word i'm talking about here is law
now usually the scientific community
when they use the word law
they're referring to things like natural
laws like well the law of gravity
the law of aerodynamics and things like
that
usually what they mean is well they're
talking about a piece of written work
that describes the way nature behaves
the law of aerodynamics for instance
explains how and why birds and other
winged objects can fly
that explains to us how they do it
the law of aerodynamics does not create
birds
nor does it make them fly it describes
how they fly
pretty sure it's the same thing with the
law of gravity
it is it's describing to us the way
gravity gravity behaves
it's not making gravity behave that way
dr. Hawking these laws are not
legislation they are observation this
statement in your book the grand design
is the first instance in written
literature that i have ever seen of any
scientist implying that these laws were
more than that
apparently you think that the law of
gravity pre-existed gravity itself in
fact pre-existed the universe in fact
had a hand in its creation
I don't know i don't know i'm not so
sure about that
just for fun though let me walk with you
down that road let's assume that the law
of gravity did pre-exists the universe
and had a hand in its creation this law
I think would be a very powerful thing
in fact it would be the most powerful
thing imaginable
if it could make worlds.  this law of
gravity
this collection of data or knowledge is
itself unimaginable and unfathomable
it's a collection of limitless power now
I do sometimes sit in contemplation of
such a power this contemplation I call
prayer this power I call God i want to
be I want to be very careful with my
descriptive language if if we're going
to redefine terms so we're left with two
options either these natural laws did
not pre-exists the universe in which
case they are themselves created things
and required an outside hand or these
natural laws did exist before the
universe in which case they are the
outside hand
it's one or the other my friend
so we've spent a little bit of time here
talking about the accurate use of a
couple of words the word law and the
word nothing nothing
dr. Hawking the proper use of
descriptive language is very important
in shaping the way we see the world in
the interest of being as accurate as
possible
there's one more scientific term I would
like to retool i would like to take a
slightly less than accurate descriptive
phrase and trade it for a more accurate
descriptive phrase
oh and to be completely accurate I
wanted to trade a two-word phrase for a
four word sentence
the two word phrase that I would like to
look at is the phrase big bang and
here's why
whenever I hear the word bang I usually
think of a loud noise as you know dr.
Hawking sound cannot travel through
empty space but light can sound requires
a compressible medium through which to
travel so those first few moments of the
existence of the universe that are
commonly called today
the big bang I'd like to trade in that
phrase for something else to an external
observer
it wouldn't be a loud noise more of a
more of a flash than a bang
so what I'm proposing is this we trade
in the two-word phrase big bang and use
in its place four word sentence
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