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The universe broke — it is a scientific fact.
Pieces of a vase, strewn shattered on the floor, are the evidence that there once was a vase and that it broke.
Pieces of matter, moving outwardly through space, are the evidence there once was a unified prior reality and that it broke.
This article is about physicists being unable to wrap their minds about the breaking of the prior state of the universe, their having trouble acknowledging a scientific fact.
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Many scientists are specialists in their fields and when asked they have a hard time seeing the forest for the trees. They each focus on their own tree and have discovered truly wonderful facts about their trees. And yet, ask them about the forest, and they scratch their heads. “We do not have evidence for the forest,” they’ll say. Their focus is so much on the fantastic details that many cannot wrap their minds around the big picture.
- Physicists are almost like a policeman coming onto a deadly scene on the freeway of an accident involving twenty cars and all drivers and passengers perished. Because no one saw the accident, and all that experienced it expired, the policeman says that we cannot know whether there was an accident or not.
