Brane Cosmology

[coolduude]

Yes, I spelled that right Brane, not brain.

Here’s a good explanation of brane cosmology:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology

and

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100215061333AAfsYT9

Get the picture?

Anyway, I wanted to know how this affects the existence of God (if it does at all) and what you guys think of this theory.

I don’t really buy into it for various reasons (I can explain my reasons later if need be), but what does everyone else think?

coolduude

 

[HelenaMT]

Yes, I spelled that right Brane, not brain.

Here’s a good explanation of brane cosmology:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology

and

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100215061333AAfsYT9

Get the picture?

Anyway, I wanted to know how this affects the existence of God (if it does at all) and what you guys think of this theory.

I don’t really buy into it for various reasons (I can explain my reasons later if need be), but what does everyone else think?

coolduude

Ummm…I don’t think it says much about whether God exists, but I guess it might have something to say about how God creates.

Without knowing what exists in these other dimensions, it seems impossible to see what the other implications are.

 

[coolduude]

Ummm…I don’t think it says much about whether God exists, but I guess it might have something to say about how God creates.

True. Brane cosmology says nothing about God, however I always thought of it as implicating the existence of God.

 

[HelenaMT]

True. Brane cosmology says nothing about God, however I always thought of it as implicating the existence of God.

Sure, God could exist on one or more of the other dimensions(thereby remaining undetectable), and just like gravity leaks through, God’s influence could as well.

However, I don’t see how brane cosmology implicates God’s existence any more than other theories. I’d like to know how you think it does.

 

[Call_Me_V]

Speaking as a total amateur in this subject, but from what little I know about it I would say that it offers one possible non-theistic explanation of how our Universe came into existence. But it isn’t even close to being proven (string theory as a whole hasn’t been proven yet, I don’t think) so it remains highly speculative.

I don’t think that it affects the existence of God much. If it’s true (and if I’m understanding it right, which is not a sure thing at all), it would eliminate the need for a cause of our Universe, and thus eliminate the most popular argument for God’s existence, but it wouldn’t actually disprove God’s existence.

V

 

[JimG]

Neither string theory nor M-theory have much to do with the existence of God. In Catholic theology God is viewed as a simple and spiritual being, having no extension in space or time whatsoever. He does not reside “in” space or “in’” time. So the branes of M-theory may be useful speculations cosmologically but not theologically.