Dr. Stephen Meyer

I said it was the greatest blunder of his career.

He was more emphatic.

It was the greatest blunder of his life.

Wow.

He allowed his philosophical prejudice to obscure the evidence.

This is part of the Einsteinian gravitational idea is that he would talk about space-time, the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time.

And they're all connected intimately.

And this is…

To fully unpack that, you've got to get into relativity.

But the basic idea is, yeah, if you think about collapsing the universe back in time, if you think about back extrapolating at a previous time, you have this – from the observational astronomy –

The galaxies are moving outward.

From the Einsteinian idea that space is expanding with the expansion of the galaxies, then if you wind that back in the forward direction of time, the matter would be getting more and more diffuse.

In the reverse direction of time, the matter would be getting more and more densely concentrated.

And if the matter is more densely concentrated, the space gets more tightly curved.

And as you go back and back and back, you eventually get to a limiting case where you can't go back any further.

And that marks the beginning of the expansion and arguably the beginning of the universe itself.

And there's a whole lot of interesting, complicated physics debates around this tiny, tiny smidgen of space where you have not only Einstein's gravitational effects but quantum effects.

Quantum mechanical effects as well, and what do we make of that?

But I think the most straightforward interpretation is that the universe looks as you would expect it to look if it were expanding outward from the beginning.

Yeah, even basic chemistry is finely tuned.