To try to resolve the dilemma on the boundary of space-time before the Big Bang, Hawking has echoed the notion of “sum over histories” or “short road” by New Yorker Richard Feynman, published in 1948, in which made use of imaginary time and applied it to the view of the seriousness of Albert Einstein. In Chapter 10, “Wormholes and Time Travel” by Bief History of Time, he concluded that the “equivalent to the history of a particle is now a curved space-time integral, total, representing the history of the universe. To overcome the technical barriers to the calculation of the sum over histories, these curved spacetimes be Euclidean.Time is imaginary and indistinguishable from directions in space. ”
“Space-time would be like the surface of the earth, only with two more dimensions.The surface of the earth is finite but it does in Extent have a boundary or edge: if you sail off into the sunset, you do not fall off the edge or run into a singularity. (I know, Because I have been round the world!) Chapter 8, page 69, of Brief History of Time.
This English version of his work, and I mean that Hawking seems to conclude that the space-time universe would be like “… the surface of the Earth, only, only two dimensions” that is “… finite without boundary or edge , no beginning and no end, no uniqueness. “
Then he says, in the same chapter of the same book: “The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no border.” “It would not be created not destroyed itself. Simply would “ With this statement Hawking dismisses the driving action of God.
But this notion of self-contained universe, but becomes interesting because rationalization with Hawking assumes that these approaches, using a classification technique and modern theories of the universe, is not very different, in essence, those less developed, less scientific, but they had already expressed the pantheistic the ancient Greek world, six or eight centuries BC. For these pre-Socratic philosophers, the universe, nature, life itself, was a single whole in God. The Universe was conceived as God, a whole without beginning or end.
But the concept of a timeless universe, which does not rule out changes or transformations inherent, had been conceived by the Hindus, probably almost three thousand years before the Greeks. In the Vedas, recorded a Universe that is part of an infinite God, as seen in the last part of the text 30 of the Srimad Bhagavatam Song I: “… were created from the transcendental body of the Lord …”
A similar concept can also be seen in the Bible. The name Jehovah or Yahweh, which derives from Eve, according to Dr. Scofield, in his notes. It also means the “Eternal, which exists”, the “I Am”, “always present” has the meaning or idea of “Becoming”, to manifest or reveal. Really, derived from the Hebrew word known as Tetragrammaton: יהוה (YHWH).This is the name that God used to define its essence in Exodus 20:2. It seems that the Jewish people and the Jewish culture connoisseurs consider the most accepted pronunciation is Yahweh.
It seems that the meaning of the name, means “a combination of the past forms (היה), present (הוה) and future (יהיה) of the root of the verb to be, to indicate the eternity of God’s existence. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty “(Revelation 1:8) (1)
It would also have a sense or “causative form of the same verb, meaning” he who causes to be ‘, “which allows things to be. “Many other names in Arabic and Hebrew respond to that form, which seems to underpin this hypothesis (1).
According Watchtower.org, “The name is a form of the Hebrew verb “ha-wah “, with the sense of “to become or become” and actually means “He who causes or permits beings or things are or arise”-translation of the author of the annotation of the website of the Watchtower (2).
That is, according to the Apostle John in the first chapter of the book that bears his proper name in verse three, we read:
“All things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (3).
According to the meaning of the name of יהוה, in turn, the nature or the universe is the revelation or manifestation of “Being” or his “Existence”. That is, it is an intrinsic part of Him
Luke puts it well in the book attributed to him. In the Acts of the Apostles, chapter seventeen, verse twenty-eight, we read: “For in him we live, and move, and are.”
Is the notion of a universe that is in God, which is part of God and, therefore, infinite, consubstantial with him. This does not imply that intrinsic changes arising in the observed universe. Not imply immutability. Is the Universe disclosure to us of their essence.
While Hawking (4) reaches this essence of knowledge, yet the theoretical framework and the modern technological nomenclature and denies God, however, for thousands of years, men, more ignorant relatively compared to “homo sapiens” today, but wise in their cultural contexts, reached by intuition, that vague knowledge that relates to the Freudian unconscious or archetypes of the species, Gustav Jung or Plato, or simply by observing divine revelation, to those same conclusions . A question of methodology?
References
1. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah
2. http://www.watchtower.org/e/na/index.htm
3. The Bible, King James version.
4. Brief History of Time. Chapters 8, 9, 10 ..