Scientists Are Embarrassed By Science

"did God Have A Mother?" Children, When Told That God Made The Heavens And The Earth, Innocently Ask Whether God Had A Mother. This Deceptively Simple Question Has Stumped The Elders Of The Church And Embarrassed The Finest Theologians, Precipitating Some Of The Thorniest Theological Debates Over The Centuries. All The Great Religions Have Elaborate Mythologies Surrounding The Divine Act Of Creation, But None Of Them Adequately Confronts The Logical Paradoxes Inherent In The Question That Even Children Ask.

I Got A Four Year Scholarship To Harvard, And While I Was There They Wanted To Groom Me For Work In The Star Wars Program Designing Weapons Ignited By Hydrogen Bombs. I Didn't Want To Do That. I Thought About How Many Scientists Had Died In World War Ii.

Modern Thinking Is That Time Did Not Start With The Big Bang, And That There Was A Multiverse Even Before The Big Bang. In The Inflation Theory, And In String Theory, There Were Universes Before Our Big Bang, And That Big Bangs Are Happening All The Time. Universes Are Formed When Bubbles Collide Or Fission Into Smaller Bubles.

The River Of Time May Fork Into Rivers, In Which Case You Have A Parallel Reality And So Then You Can Become A Time Traveler And Not Have To Worry About Causing A Time Paradox.

Once Again, My Colleague Stephen Hawking Has Upset The Apple Cart. The Event Horizon Surrounding A Black Hole Was Once Though To Be An Imaginary Sphere. But Recent Theories Indicate That It May Actually Be Physical, Maybe Even A Sphere Of Fire. But I Don't Trust Any Of These Calculations Until We Have A Full-blown String Theory Calculation, Since Einstein's Theory By Itself Is Incomplete.