Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Work Paved the Way for Astrophysics to Prove God Exists

Stephen Hawking, brilliant mind, astrophysicist, heir to Newton and Einstein, author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, has died at 76.

In 1963, he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more commonly called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. He was given two years to live; he died 55 years later.

This Blogger owes much to Stephen Hawking; in the late eighties, this Blogger happened to be, by fluke, East Germany, Communist Germany. Outside of Magdeburg, this Blogger was pulled of the train heading for Hanover by STASI agents( East German secret police). The STASI agents rifled this Blogger’s belongings, and found the one book this Blogger was carrying, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME.

The astute STASI agent smiled and said: “I don’t the Americans would send someone who reads Hawking to bother us.”

This Blogger was put on the next train to Hanover, no worse for wear.

This Blogger was indeed reading A BREF HISTORY IN TIME; reading it confirmed his religious faith; confirmed that the modern way to the God of the Old Testament is through astrophysics.

On November 19, 2017, this Blogger published:  Latest from CERN: The Universe Should Not Exist....Which Means God Exists.........................................

The following is excerpted from that Blog:

“….. The astrophysicists at CERN just announced that the Universe should not exist; therefore God does exist, for without God anti-matter  would have destroyed the  Universe at Creation.

This Blogger became interested in astrophysics in the summer of 1988; he happened to be in West Berlin, and would have to get back to West Germany by taking a train through Communist East Germany. The Soviet Army had a massive concentration of troops at Magdeburg ( the  hills were black with Soviet field tents) waiting to attack NATO across the Northern German Plain.

It was common knowledge that the STASI ( the Communist East German Secret Police) would stop the train outside of Magdeburg to size up the passengers. Under those circumstances, the choice of reading material would be crucial; this Blogger could not be found reading either  the Bible or the Federalist Papers. Nor was it advisable to have any Marxist material, because the Stalinist STASI might ask this Blogger a Marxist question, and since this Blogger had learned his Marxism as a Trotskyite, a Trotskyite  answer could lead to bad results.

Therefore the right reading material had to be something that smacked of atheism, (the STASI liked atheism) but in a popular way; this Blogger picked A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

During the train trip across East Germany, this Blogger read Hawking from cover-to-cover; that triggered his interest in astrophysics, and initiated his counter-intuitive belief that astrophysics confirms the existence of God.

This Blogger was accepting Hawking’s cosmology until Hawking got to explaining the BIG BANG THEORY. His explanation of the BIG BANG was no longer science but a belief system, involving cartoonish nanoseconds (nanosecond (ns) is one billionth of a second).

Then Hawking started informing this Blogger that to understand the BIG BANG, he, this Blogger, had to imagine there was a time before time  in which there was no time; then SOMETHING, out of NOWHERE, spontaneously appeared. It was the size of a pin head, and out of NOTHING, it appeared, to explode into the Big Bang, creating the Universe.

Hawking’s cosmology is that   something spontaneously appeared out of nothing...that to this Blogger was  Creationism by another name.

If a devotee of science must believe that something was created out of nothing; then this Blogger has a right to say that process, something out of nothing, was GOD'S work . If this Blogger has to believe mumbo jumbo, he might as well believe mumbo jumbo for which St. Paul got beheaded.

"It has been known since the late 1920s that the universe is getting bigger. But it was thought that the expansion was slowing. When in 1998 two independent studies reached the opposite conclusion, cosmology was knocked head over heels.

Since then, 5,000 papers have been written to try to explain (or explain away) this result. “That’s more than one a day,” marvels Saul Perlmutter, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who led the Supernova Cosmology Project—one of the studies that was responsible for dropping the bombshell. …. that work earned Dr Perlmutter the Nobel prize for physics, which he shared with Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, who led the other study, the High-Z Supernova Search.

…. In the early 1990s studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), an all-pervading sea of microwaves which reveals what the universe looked like when it was just 380,000 years old, showed that the universe, then and now, was “flat”.

However big a triangle you draw on it—the corners could be billions of light years apart—the angles in it would add up to 180°, just as they do in a school exercise book.

That might not surprise people whose geometrical endeavours have never gone beyond such books. But it surprised many physicists. At some scales space is not at all flat: the power of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity lies in its interpretation of gravity in terms of curved space.

Cosmologists were quite prepared for it to be curved at the grandest of scales, and intrigued to discover that it was not.

…Relativity says that for the universe to be flat, it has to have a very particular density—which in relativity is a measure not just of the mass contained in a certain volume, but also of the energy…..

….. A cosmological constant is the same no matter where in the universe you look—an inherent, unchanging feature of the fabric of creation, however much it expands, twists or ties itself in knots.

The cosmological constant is another thing first dreamed up by Einstein. On realising that the equations of general relativity allowed for the universe’s expansion (or, indeed, contraction), he added a parameter describing just such a constant in order to keep it from doing either…..

Quantum theory says that the seemingly empty vacuum of space is, in fact, not empty at all. Instead it is constantly abuzz with “virtual” particles flitting in and out of existence. The energy resulting from all this buzzing—vacuum energy—should be a fixed feature of space—in other words, a cosmological constant.

… in principle, it could also propel the universe’s expansion. Thus vacuum energy and dark energy might be the same thing. But this theoretical neatness runs into a practical problem. .... vacuum energy is not vast enough to explain the universe.....Working out why vacuum energy is not so vast has been a problem for physics ever since.

….Dr Perlmutter doubts the existence of God because of science. Alas, no one will never find God in Science. The science of the 17th century is not the science of today; the science of the 18th century is not the science of today;the science of the 19th century is not the science of today; the science of the 20th century is not the science of today..... THE ECONOMIST "

Nobel Laureate Perlmutter is wrong; Science can lead one to God. The fact that astrophysicists cannot figure out the Universe, except in science fiction, leads one to the conclusion, it is God behind the ongoing, and continuing mystery. If there were no God, Mankind would know the mysteries of the Universe by now.

Mankind has to be the entity to discover the secrets of the Universe, for, because of GRBs, Life on Earth may be the OLDEST Life in the Universe, and consequently  Mankind the most intelligent life in the Universe.

“….it may be the case that complex life on Earth is just about as ancient as it is possible for complex life to be. And, since complexity necessarily precedes intelligence, that might mean human beings really are the first intelligent life forms to evolve in the Milky Way.

…. gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic phenomena yet discovered in the universe. No one is certain what causes them, but the leading theories are a hypernova—the sudden collapse of a massive star to form a black hole—or a collision between two neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of supernovas (slightly less massive collapsed stars). ……….. THE ECONOMIST”

The key cosmology of physics is quantum theory. As a layman, this Blogger has been studying quantum theory since 2006; and after a decade he can admit he understands barely a whisper or whimper of it. It is gobbledygook on an operatic scale, much like the Old Testament, except the Old Testament has a lot of sex.

“Quantum theory is the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level.”

All well and good except there is a reason that it is a THEORY.

Supposedly light, the speed of light is the fastest thing in the universe, according to Einstein. However, within the quantum theory there is the worm of ENTANGLEMENT, forever interlocking the fates of subatomic particles, regardless of their separation. So if a photon on one side of the galaxy spins up, an instant later on the other side of the galaxy its twin photon will spin down …..Suggesting that INFORMATION TRAVELS FASTER THAN LIGHT.

This was very upsetting to Einstein, because the suggestion that information travels faster than light is a no-no in his special theory of relativity.

He dismissed it as unworthy “spooky things”, and invented the concept of hidden variables. Hidden variables are mystical science, much like miracles; consider them miracles for physicists. Their sole purpose is to find an explanation within the universal speed limit of light to explain the speed of information traveling above the universal speed limit.

European physicists did a test which banned Einstein’s hidden variables from the lexicon of physics. They proved mystical things are indeed happening in the speed of information, unexplainable by any scientific mumbo jumbo like hidden variables.

With Einstein disproved, what is left of quantum theory?'

CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear research, it operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world at the Swiss/French border.

It was CERN that discovered the Higgs Boson-the God Particle.

Last month CERN came close to announcing the existence of God, by announcing that the Universe should not exist.

“One of the great mysteries of modern physics is why antimatter did not destroy the Universe at the beginning of time.

To explain it, physicists suppose there must be some difference between matter and antimatter – apart from electric charge. Whatever that difference is, it’s not in their magnetism, it seems.

Physicists at CERN in Switzerland have made the most precise measurement ever of the magnetic moment of an anti-proton – a number that measures how a particle reacts to magnetic force – and found it to be exactly the same as that of the proton but with opposite sign.

“All  of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” says Christian Smorra, a physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration. 

“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”

Antimatter is notoriously unstable – any contact with regular matter and it annihilates in a burst of pure energy that is the most efficient reaction known to physics. That’s why it was chosen as the fuel to power the starship Enterprise in Star Trek.

The standard model predicts the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter – but that’s a combustive mixture that would have annihilated itself, leaving nothing behind to make galaxies or planets or people….cosmosmagazine.”

Readers, Science, Physics, astrophysicists,  and cosmologists are on the verge of proving the Universe, and Mankind SHOULD NOT EXIST.

But the Universe does exist.

What greater proof is there?

The Universe exists where and when it should not exist means that God exists….THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”

This Blogger does not know if Stephen Hawking wanted this legacy, but his work paved the way for astrophysicists to prove the existence of God.

Young Stephen Hawking