Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe

[Kisai]

Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | October 17, 2018 04:23pm ET

Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe

In a new book that was published posthumously, Stephen Hawking, who died in March, wrote that it is impossible for God to exist in our universe.


From his desk at Cambridge University and beyond, Stephen Hawking sent his mind spiraling into the deepest depths of black holes, radiating across the endless cosmos and swirling back billions of years to witness time's first breath. He viewed creation as a scientist, and when he was called to discuss creation's biggest puzzles — Where do we come from? What is our purpose? Are we alone? — he answered as a scientist, often to the chagrin of religious critics.

In Stephen Hawking's final book "Brief Answers to Big Questions," published Tuesday (Oct. 16) by Bantam Books, the professor begins a series of 10 intergalactic essays by addressing life's oldest and most religiously fraught question of all: Is there a God? [Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]

Hawking's answer — compiled from decades of prior interviews, essays and speeches with the help of his family, colleagues and the Steven Hawking Estate — should come as no surprise to readers who have followed his work, er, religiously.

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"I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science," Hawking, who died in March, wrote. "If you accept, as I do, that the laws of nature are fixed, then it doesn't take long to ask: What role is there for God?"
In life, Hawking was a vocal champion of the Big Bang theory — the idea that the universe began by exploding suddenly out of an ultradense singularity smaller than an atom. From this speck emerged all the matter, energy and empty space that the universe would ever contain, and all that raw material evolved into the cosmos we perceive today by following a strict set of scientific laws. To Hawking and many like-minded scientists, the combined laws of gravity, relativity, quantum physics and a few other rules could explain everything that ever happened or ever will happen in our known universe.
"If you like, you can say the laws are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence," Hawking wrote.

With the universe running on a scientifically guided autopilot, the only role for an all-powerful deity might be setting the initial conditions of the universe so that those laws could take shape — a divine creator who caused the Big Bang to bang, then stepped back to behold His work.

"Did God create the quantum laws that allowed the Big Bang to occur?" Hawking wrote. "I have no desire to offend anyone of faith, but I think science has a more compelling explanation than a divine creator."
Hawking's explanation begins with quantum mechanics, which explains how subatomic particles behave. In quantum studies, it's common to see subatomic particles like protons and electrons seemingly appear out of nowhere, stick around for a while and then disappear again to a completely different location. Because the universe was once the size of a subatomic particle itself, it's plausible that it behaved similarly during the Big Bang, Hawking wrote.
"The universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature," he wrote.

That still doesn't explain away the possibility that God created that proton-size singularity, then flipped the quantum- mechanical switch that allowed it to pop. But Hawking says science has an explanation here, too. To illustrate, he points to the physics of black holes — collapsed stars that are so dense, nothing, including light, can escape their pull.
Black holes, like the universe before the Big Bang, condense into a singularity. In this ultra-packed point of mass, gravity is so strong that it distorts time as well as light and space. Simply put, in the depths of a black hole, time does not exist.

Because the universe also began as a singularity, time itself could not have existed before the Big Bang. Hawking's answer, then, to what happened before the Big Bang is, "there was no time before the Big Bang."

"We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in," Hawking wrote. "For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in."

This argument will do little to persuade theistic believers, but that was never Hawking's intent. As a scientist with a near-religious devotion to understanding the cosmos, Hawking sought to "know the mind of God" by learning everything he could about the self-sufficient universe around us. While his view of the universe might render a divine creator and the laws of nature incompatible, it still leaves ample space for faith, hope, wonder and, especially, gratitude.

"We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe," Hawking concludes the first chapter of his final book, "and for that I am extremely grateful."
Originally published on Live Science.

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Huyu si ndio alikuwa mgonjwa wa muda mrefu huyu ? Ila Mola ana mitihani yake aisee. Haya ni machumo ya mikono yake....

 

[Kijana kijana]

Kwa bahati mbaya mitihani haijatoa hiyo fursa.
Ingetoa fursa hiyo ya kila mtu atoe fikra zake bila kuwa na silabasi maalumu ingewezekana.

Au nawewe umejiwekea kautaratibu hako?

Kwa hiyo mkuu ukiingia kwenye mtihani ukaulizwa thibitisha kuwa Tanzania ni Taifa huru utamgonga maswali aliekupa mtihani kama unavyonigonga maswali mimi kuwa uthibitishe kivipi??![emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]

 

[mosabiy]

Swali langu hujajibu mkuu!...Nilikuuliza thibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo!

Okay, Je ungependa nitumie njia gani ya kukuthibitishia?

 

[Kijana kijana]

Okay, Je ungependa nitumie njia gani ya kukuthibitishia?

Akikujibu nitag

 

[Kiranga]

Stephen Hawking kwako ni nani Brother?

Ni mtu aliyekuwa Professor wa Oxford aliyekalia kiti cha Newton, sio kwangu tu, kwa dunia nzima.

Sina shobo na mtu, nazungumza ideas. Tuzungumze ideas, acha kushobokea mtu.

Kwani wewe ulifikiri vipi?

 

[Kiranga]

What if he said he is the God?
What would be your stand?
My point was, either he was the first, second or last (you may be in) , he had nothing to do to believers!

I'm sorry but what you point as a point has no point.

 

[Kiranga]

Hayo unayogawekea hoja, ni maagizo yake Mungu

Thibitisha Mungu yupo kwanza kabla ya yote.

 

[Behaviourist]

Okay, Je ungependa nitumie njia gani ya kukuthibitishia?

Kwa hiyo mkuu ukiingia kwenye mtihani ukaulizwa thibitisha kuwa Tanzania ni Taifa huru utamgonga maswali aliekupa mtihani kama unavyonigonga maswali mimi kuwa uthibitishe kwa njia gani?!..... Hii ni njia ya Panya ya kukwepa swali!![emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]...... Huwezi kuthibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo kwa Sababu hayupo!!

 

[Cole Williams]

I can only write this
GEOGGRAPHY IS A DESTIN

 

[Kisai]

Vitabu gani??.....Yaani nipoteze muda wangu kwenye vitabu vinavyodai kuwa Mungu ni mjuzi wa yote wakati ameshindwa kuumba dunia ambayo haina magonjwa, ubakaji, vimbunga, ajali, tsunami, njaa e. t. c??!.... Cha msingi hapa thibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo ili uokoe wengi kwenye hili janga la Kiranga la kuburuza watu!!

Hili ndio tatizo lenu nyinyi huwa si wasomaji labisa,sasa kinachokuja kudhihirika kwenu ni uozo uliopetuka mipaka kama hivi.....

 

[Behaviourist]

Hili ndio tatizo lenu nyinyi huwa si wasomaji labisa,sasa kinachokuja kudhihirika kwenu ni uozo uliopetuka mipaka kama hivi.....

Wewe msomaji wa vitabu thibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo!

 

[mchokozi mpende]

Steven Hawkings is not a first scientist to put forward such an argument...many came argued and are not there anymore...its an awkward move not believing that all we see just come to existence without being made by someone......scientist have failed to ask themselves why they do exist and why they die...or what should be done to prevent death.....Steven Hawking been on wheel chair for very long time for what i can call inability to diagnose what he was suffering from its a simple manifestation of God presence(Supreme)...why he did not think of that being beyond his ability or other scientist abilities. If we real admit that there are things that are above our line of thinking, then we must admit the truth of God being Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnipotent.

 

[Kiranga]

Hivi kati ya kutengenezwa(kutokea na kuwepo)kwa gari

Na kutotengenezwa(kutotokea na kuwepo kwa gari)

Lipi kati ya hapo linaonyesha kwamba umetumika uwezo na Nguvu ya mfanyaji fulani mpaka likatokea tokeo?

Mwenye akili atasema hilo la kwanza.

Sasa unaposema Mungu angekuepo asingeumba kitu fulani na fulani na fulani.huoni kama asingeumba hivyo angetokea Mwingine AKASEMA KAMA MUNGU NDO MUUMBA VIPI HAKUUMBA KITU FULANI NA FULANI NA FULANI?

anaesema kama baba angekuepo angenilipia ada na kunipeleka shule na yule anaesema kama baba angekuepo asingenilipia ada na kunipeleka shule yupi hoja yake inanguvu hapa?


Mwenye akili atasema uwepo wa jambo(baba)utafanya matokeo yanayodaiwa(ada na kupeleka shule)

Sasa ikiwa uwepo wa huyo baba haufanyi mtoto alipiwe ada na kwenda shule.

Na pia kutokuwepo kwake hakufanyi mtoto alipiwe ada na kupelekwa shule.

kuna tofauti gani kati ya kuwepo baba na kutokuwepo ikiwa hakuna athari yeyote ile?

Tofauti yakona mimi ni kwamba, uwezo wako wa kufikiri unaishia kwenye ulimwengu uliopo.

Wakati mimi naweza kufikiria aina zote za ulimwengu zinazoweza kuwepokama Hugh Everett.

Unapoona swali la kwamba kama Mungu angeumba vile na si hivi, si kungekuwa na watu wengine wangehoji kwa nini kaumba vile na si hivi, unakuwa huelewi au unasahau ukwelikwamba, Mungu mwenye uwezo wote, ujuzi wote na upendo wote anaweza kuumba ulimwengu wenye sheria za fizikia zisizoruhusu swali hilo kufikirika wala kuulizika.

Kwa manenomengine, ukweli kwamba mimi naweza kujiuliza, kwa nini Mungu kaumba ulimwengu ambao tsunami linaua watoto wasio na hatia, unaonesha kwamba Mungu hayupo.

Kwa sababu kwanza angekuwepo asingeruhusu tsunami hilo liuwe watoto wasio na hatia.

Lakini pia, kuruhusu tsunami liue watoto wasio na hatia, na kuniruhusu mimi kuweza kuhoji uwepo wa Mungu kwa sababu nimeona tsunami linaloua watoto wasio hatia is adding insult to injury.

Yaani katikakufikiri kwako kooote,umeona Mungu mjuzi wa yote, mwenye uwezo wote na upendo wote atashindwa ku limit kitu anachoweza kufikiri kiumbe wake?

 

[Kisai]

Thibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo!

Sasa nataka twende taratibu mimi na wewe, Kiranga ukweli anaujua na madhaifu yake nimeshamuonyesha katika kuhoji,kujibu maswali,na kadhalika katika elimu ya mantiki. Na mimi yule nimeshamwambia kabisa sijadiliani nae tena kuhusu suala hili,sababu nina uhakika majibu nilimpa tena ya kiakili.

Wewe nakuona mpya katika kadhia hii,sasa nataka niende na wewe sawa. Naanzia hapa.

Wewe ni vigezo gani huwa unatumia kuupata ukweli ? Yaani kwako wewe uthibitisho ni nini ?

Ukijibu hapa tutaendelea kutokea hapa. Ila kwa masharti maswali yangu umwe unayajibu na mimi maswali yako nitakujibu sababu huwa siachi kujibi swali na kama sijui nasema sijui na kama nimekosea nakiri kosa.

Nasubiri jibu.....

 

[mosabiy]

Kwa hiyo mkuu ukiingia kwenye mtihani ukaulizwa thibitisha kuwa Tanzania ni Taifa huru utamgonga maswali aliekupa mtihani kama unavyonigonga maswali mimi kuwa uthibitishe kwa njia gani?!..... Hii ni njia ya Panya ya kukwepa swali!![emoji3][emoji3][emoji3]...... Huwezi kuthibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo kwa Sababu hayupo!!

Kama kwenye mtihani wa PHYSICS basi nitatumia VITABU vya PHYSICS kuPROVE maana aliyetunga mtihani ameshasoma vitabu cha PHYSICS. Lakini wewe umeishia matayo 5:48.

TOFAUTI NA HAPO UTASOMA BIASHARA YA UTUMWA KWENYE HISTORY HARAFU UTALAZIMISHA KUPROVE NJIA WALIZOPITA WATUMWA KWAKUTUMIA PHYSICS.

 

[Behaviourist]

Kama kwenye mtihani wa PHYSICS basi nitatumia VITABU vya PHYSICS kuPROVE maana aliyetunga mtihani ameshasoma vitabu cha PHYSICS. Lakini wewe umeishia matayo 5:48.

TOFAUTI NA HAPO UTASOMA BIASHARA YA UTUMWA KWENYE HISTORY HARAFU UTALAZIMISHA KUPROVE NJIA WALIZOPITA WATUMWA KWAKUTUMIA PHYSICS.

Mungu hayupo ndiyo maana umeshindwa kuthibitisha uwepo wake!

 

[Kiranga]

Mungu hayupo kwa sababu Mungu anaeaminika na wewe kuwa ni mjuzi wa yote, mwenye upendo wote,mwenye huruma yote na mkamilifu asingeruhusu dunia ambayo mabaya yanawezekana!

Hivi kwa nini point rahisi sana, nyepesi sana kueleweka, ambayo haina ure,mbo mwiingi,yenye straightforward logic kama hii haieleweki na watu?

Au wanabisha kwa ubishi tu kama wa Simba na Yanga?

Yani watu wanahangaika miaka na miaka kutafuta dawa na chanjo, wenzao wanajifia mamilioni kwa mamilioni.

Antibiotics zimeanza kutumika formally en masse 1928 baada ya Alexander Fleming kugundua, tena kwa bahati tu, jinsi penicillin inavyofanya kazi.

Kabla ya hapoilikuwa unaweza kufa kwa kidonda tu, kwa sababu kidonda hakina dawa ya kutuliza bacteria kukichafua na kueneza infection mwilini.

Watu wamekufa mabilioni kw amabilioni kwa sababu wamekosa antibiotics tu, mpaka 1928. Hata miaka 100 haijapita tangu duniaigundue antibioticsin a scientific way.

Hivi huyo Mungu ana ukatili gani mpaka aachie watu wafe kwa kukosa antibiotics kwamamilioni na mamilioni na mabilioni over the years?

Na kama yupo ana ukatili huu, watu wanasemaje ana upendo mkuu?

Huyu

 

[Kiranga]

Ww mwenyewe ni uthibitisho wa kua Mungu yupo

Kivipi?

Hapohujathibitisha, umelazimisha bila ufafanuzi.

Mimi ningekuwa uthibitisho Mungu yupo, nisingeumwa.

Mungu huyo asingeumba dunia inayoweza kuwa na mapungufu.

Naumwa,

Hivyo sijaumbwa na Mungu huyo, nimeumbikakwa process yenye mapungufu.

 

[King Savi]

Vitabu gani??.....Yaani nipoteze muda wangu kwenye vitabu vinavyodai kuwa Mungu ni mjuzi wa yote wakati ameshindwa kuumba dunia ambayo haina magonjwa, ubakaji, vimbunga, ajali, tsunami, njaa e. t. c??!.... Cha msingi hapa thibitisha kuwa Mungu yupo ili uokoe wengi kwenye hili janga la Kiranga la kuburuza watu!!

Bro hujasoma biblia na unakimbilia kukashfu maswala ya Mungu

Kwanza,kabisa anasema mimi ni Mungu niliyefanya vitu vyote vinavyoonekana na visivyoonekana,So anza kujiuliza ni vitu vingapi visivyoonekana? ukipata jibu hapo ndio uje kuhoji kwa vitu vinavyoonekana ambavyo unamlaumu Mungu

Pili,Mungu anajipambanua kupitia biblia kwamba ameumba MEMA na MABAYA lakini (anatushauri) yaani uamuzi ni wako kuchagua yaliyo mema au mabaya,mbele zaidi amepambanua kwamba mema ni kwaajili ya wema na mabaya kwaajili ya wabaya.So its your option too to blame GOD because of your choice.

Tatu,Huyu Hawking anamkataa Mungu kwa fact zake lakini ningependa fact anazozisema angezitumia kutengeneza DAMU ya binadamu au angetumia hiyo science na ujuzi na ujuzi alionano kujitibu ugonjwa wa kupalalize aliokua nao kabla kifo hakijampata,Kwa kifupi Mungu amejipambanua sana ndio maana hata katika kipindi cha Musa kuwapeleka Waisraeli kaanani Mungu alisema nakutuma Musa kwa Farao lakini nitamfanyia moyo mgumu ili kwamba ajue mimi ni Mungu niliekutuma,ndio maana ya yale mapigo kumi kwa wamisri,haya mambo hata hivi leo yapo mfno ni Bwana Hawkin amemkataa Mungu kwa fact nzuri lakini kwanini asitumie fact zake kujifanya awe perfect yeye binafsi badala yakupinga wengine,kwanini asingetumia muda wake mwingi kutafuta dawa ya ugonjwa wake? au yeye alivyokuwa alijiona mkamilifu? na kama alijiona mkamilifu kwanini asione na vingine viko kamili?

Tusimjaji Mungu wakati vitu tunavyoviona vinatushinda tutawezaje kujaji tusivyoviona?,kama tumeshindwa kujua lile dude kubwa la air marasyia lilipoenda tutajuaje mambo ya Mungu?

 

[Kiranga]

Huyu si ndio alikuwa mgonjwa wa muda mrefu huyu ? Ila Mola ana mitihani yake aisee. Haya ni machumo ya mikono yake....

Huyo kaumwa kwa sababu Mungu hayupo.

Wote tunaumwakwa sababu Mungu hayupo.

Mungu angekuwepo, hakuna mtu ambaye angeumwa ugonjwa wowote.