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Quantum rate change

שו”תQuantum rate change
asked 7 years ago

Hello Rabbi, I read your book of faith regarding the cosmological proof. I got to the section on quantum spontaneous generation and didn’t quite understand the proof from there. To the best of my understanding, the Rabbi claims that the laws that made this spontaneous generation possible were “created” and that it was not a true generation from a complete vacuum. If so, how do we know that these laws are not ancient? I suggested that if they were indeed ancient, then the world was ancient, and therefore they had to be created. I would be happy to refine the proof.


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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago
Laws can be ancient, but even ancient laws require a legislator. This is both because of the principle of sufficient reason, and because laws are not enforceable. The fact that any laws exist does not explain itself or what goes on within it. The laws are only the way in which the legislator and his world operate.

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דוד שיף replied 7 years ago

1. I didn't understand exactly, when I wrote ancient laws I meant that they existed for an infinite time, but of course that doesn't seem possible to me since time and space began with the Big Bang? In addition, how is it possible for these laws to be ancient? This doesn't mean that the world had to be ancient, with these laws always existing? And another question, how is it possible to explain according to this theory the structure of the universe that is “fine tuned”
for life and in general that it exists?
2. What is the level of probability of this theory? I assume that it cannot be proven empirically? And in general, I understood that everything that happened at time 0 is completely outside the understanding of science?
3. Why doesn't the rabbi publish a book: Teacher of the Confused 2 or something like that? 🙂

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

I don't understand the discussion here. Ancient laws or not, possible or not possible, etc. Please write what exactly you are asking.
I do have a book coming out, and even a trilogy. It's in the works.

דוד שיף replied 7 years ago

My question is, was there a starting point for all of existence (the laws are contained within this existence)? And can the Rabbi explain exactly how cause and effect can also work outside of time (I understand the general idea, but don't cause and effect exist as an appendage to time?)

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

I have no idea. The bang tells us that it was. But maybe there was something before it. My argument is that even if it was always there and even if it wasn't, a creator is required. I already expanded on cause and effect without time in a response a few days ago. In short, time is not an essential parameter for causality, but only part of our language for describing it. Even if there was no time in the world, there is no reason to say that there are cause and effect relationships, but that we describe them in a different language. Just as according to Kant, time is just my way of looking at things and I can still talk about my grandfather's date of birth.

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