Ask A Genius 1190: Is there more to it, or no?
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/11/13
*Interview conducted in November, 2024.*
Rick Rosner: So, naturally, I think that Big Bang physics is a theory that has not entirely caught up with observation. Everything is relatively new. Essentially, everything we know about the universe has been learned in the last 100 to 120 years.
The farther away a galaxy is, the more it is redshifted, indicating that we didn’t even figure out the existence of galaxies until the 1920s. The farther away an object is, the younger it appears in the history of the universe. There is quite a bit of evidence that suggests the universe is approximately 14 billion years old.
With all this, including nucleosynthesis and other observational data, we now have a significant amount of new evidence. However, I don’t think the theoretical framework has fully caught up yet. The Big Bang theory accounts for a lot but not everything. Additionally, when it comes to quantum mechanics, I don’t believe our understanding has kept pace with the mathematical and physical descriptions. Quantum mechanics accurately describes physical phenomena, but comprehending its implications and underlying nature has lagged.
For example, information theory and a mathematical definition of information weren’t even developed until about 40 years after the advent of quantum mechanics. So, the idea that quantum mechanics might involve incomplete information may not have fully resonated with those studying it yet.
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