Interesting indeed, but...


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In the 3rd episode "Did God Create the Universe", Mr Hawkings makes the analogy of the big bang to that of a super duper massive black hole.

My question, being a believer in the divine, is that since black holes are massive stars collapsed upon themselves, where did that super duper massive black hole come from? To say that it spontaneously came into existence is, well, at best not an explanation. Besides, for it (or anything) to spontaneously come into existence requires the existence of some form of laws, similar to that of Quantum Mechanics, prior to the big bang. And since our laws of nature came into existence along with our universe, if there were laws prior to the existence of our universe, well then that implies to the existence of something before that. That is, the existence of something prior to the existence of our universe.

Hawkings goes on to argue that since even time came into existence at the very moment of the big bang, there is no possibility of someOne or something existing prior to that. My question would actually be an inference from another modern-day physics theory, The Strings Theory.

Strings theory postulates that there are not 3, but in fact 11 other physical dimensions of space. These dimensions are hidden to us, or just so small that we can probably never even hope to interact with them.

So here's my question, and somewhat of an insight - maybe there are other, as yet undiscovered dimensions of time? Space & time are just two sides of the same coin anyways right (Einstein's Relativity). So if there could be more dimensions of space, maybe there are other dimensions of time. And just like those other spatial dimensions, maybe we wouldn't ever discover these other time dimensions. Hypothetically, such dimensions could exist. And my guess is, God exists in those dimensions.

In any case, most religions preach that God is above His creation. Not in the creation but above or beyond.

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So if there could be more dimensions of space, maybe there are other dimensions of time. And just like those other spatial dimensions, maybe we wouldn't ever discover these other time dimensions. Hypothetically, such dimensions could exist. And my guess is, God exists in those dimensions.


Clearly a God of the Gaps argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps), your description of other dimensions of time is not too different from the "Many Worlds" hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many_worlds) which is taken very seriously in physics. It sort of says that any and every time-line that is possible, may well exist, but in ways that cannot affect us, otherwise they'd be part of our world. So if the physics allows for anything like gods to exist, then they indeed will exist in some universes, just not in this one.

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