God Is Energy?

[Twilz]

Professor Kaku noted scientist and T.V. science guru believes in the existence of eternal vacuum energy BEFORE the Big Bang, and this would / could be God Himself, who coalesced some of His being into the singularity that exploded into the universe in which we exist.
What do you think?

[jim360]

It's either nonsense dressed as Science or poorly-chosen words. Either way the Big Bang appears to act as a barrier to information "before" it, so it's practically impossible to test, at least for the foreseeable future.

[Twilz]

Well he can't test it but it is a theory

[jim360]

Strictly speaking it's a hypothesis rather than a theory, but yes, I know what you mean. It's interesting, but untestable. As long as that remains the case, you can have fun speculating but it's just fun and not really useful or worthwhile-- at least not until someone can find a way to test it!

[naomi24]

I don't understand why he thinks whatever may have been present before the Big Bang would or could be 'God'. Why would it be? He's making it up.

[Buenchico]

Since nobody can ever know what existed before the Big Bang it is, of course, entirely possible that some form of 'creator' was responsible for it.

However it's an incredibly big step to go from suggesting that someone (or 'some being') created the universe and then asserting that the same person/being must therefore be an eternal moral arbiter for all life within the Universe. For example, a scientist could create life in a test tube and then walk away from it. The fact that he created life wouldn't automatically mean that he retained any interest in it, or that he had any right to determine the way in which it then developed. So the notions of a 'Creator' and of a 'God' are entirely separate, despite the attempts of many Christians to link the two together.

[Old_Geezer]

Since 'God' is a label one gives to whatever created everything, it seems reasonable to call that which was present before the big bang, "God", by definition.

[naomi24]

I’m not sure what Professor Kaku means by ‘God’. If he’s simply applying that name to whatever was before the Big Bang, so be it – but if he perceives ‘God’ as something that interacts with the lives of human beings, which it appears he is, he’s confusing the issue.

[ludwig]

Could be. God could also be a bloke with a big white beard who looks a bit like Charlton Heston, or he could just not exist. We don't know.

[jim360]

It's not impossible that it's a twisting of is words -- rather like that whole "Higgs boson is the God Particle" -- the source of this label was a publisher, who preferred it to the scientist author's own choice of "Goddamn particle"...

[naomi24]

Professor Kaku might be right in saying before the Big Bang energy existed in some form - but equating that with 'God' is irrational.

[Theland]

The God to whom the inspiration of the Bible is attributed, inspires his writers to prophesy regarding the end times in and around Israel.
What is happening right now in Syria, with its implications for the whole of the Middle East, and drawing in the United States and Russia, certainly looks to me like the pieces of the jig saw coming together for an end time scenario.

[Hypognosis]

Don't you just love these end-times fans? "Hey everybody, last chance to hop on the righteousness bus before the big 'foom', step right this way".

What a cheerful bunch they are.

[jomifl]

Hypo, If we have to wait for the 'Big Crunch' for the bus to arrive then I will make my own arrangements :o)

[naomi24]

//"Hey everybody, last chance to hop on the righteousness bus before the big 'foom', step right this way". //

Sadly for them, their God knows the secrets of all hearts .... allegedly. ;o)

[beso]

Comparing God to a vacuum is closer to the truth than most religious beliefs. However there is much more to the vacuum than there is to God. God literally is Nothing. The vacuum has structure.