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cepted widely because of the inher-
ent difficulties that it poses." 11 Even
some of the originators of this idea,
such as Brout and Spindel, have
abandoned it. 12
A recent and much-publicized
version of the quantum universe
model was advanced by the physi-
cist Stephen Hawking. In his book
A Brief History of Time, Hawking
states that the Big Bang doesn't nec- Stephen Hawking also tries to advance
essarily mean existence from noth- different explanations for the Big Bang
other than Creation just as other materi-
ingness. Instead of "no time" before
alist scientists do by relying upon contra-
the Big Bang, Hawking proposed dictions and false concepts.
the concept of "imaginary time".
According to Hawking, there was only a 10 -43 second "imaginary" time in-
terval before the Big Bang took place and "real" time was formed after that.
Hawking's hope was just to ignore the reality of "timelessness" before the
Big Bang by means of this "imaginary" time.
As a concept, "imaginary time" is tantamount to zero or non-exis-
tence–like the imaginary number of people in a room or the imaginary
number of cars on a road. Here Hawking is just playing with words. He
claims that equations are right when they are related to an imaginary time
but in fact this has no meaning. The mathematician Sir Herbert Dingle
refers to the possibility of faking imaginary things as real in math as:
In the language of mathematics we can tell lies as well as truths, and
within the scope of mathematics itself there is no possible way of telling
one from the other. We can distinguish them only by experience or by
reasoning outside the mathematics, applied to the possible relation be-
tween the mathematical solution and its physical correlate. 13
To put it briefly, a mathematically imaginary or theoretical solution need
not have a true or a real consequence. Using a property exclusive to math-
ematics, Hawking produces hypotheses that are unrelated to reality. But