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I dont know about you but I dont feel intellectually intimidated by a name of authority like physicist Stephen Hawkins, specially cos some statements dont seem to be naïve or childish but really IMBECIL for a man knowing math as he does in his Brief Story of Time, the example of monkeys hammering in typewriters machines, -the bigger part will be litter but occasionally, by mere CHANCE, they will type one of Shakespeares sonnets.
Shakespeares complete works do have the sonnets pretty much the same size. The initial verse of sonnet 18 is well known: Shall I compare you to a summers day? which follows the usual 14 lines and ends:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
There are 488 letters in the sonnet. Ignoring the spaces between words (like the Bible Code)the chance to type by chance 488 letters and produce this sonnet is 1 in 10 follow by 690 zeros! The enormity of this scale can be notice if we consider after Big Bang theres 15 billion years, that means only 10 follow by 18 zeros (seconds).
Hence, to write by chance one of Shakespeares sonnets its required all the monkeys PLUS all the animals of the Earth type in typewriter machines MADE BY ALL IRON OF THE UNIVERSE in a period of time EXCEEDING ENORMOUSLY THE TIME SINCE BIG BANG, even so, the odds are minimum. Trying one chance by second, even a simple sentence with 16 letters demands 2 millions of billion years while the Universe only exists 15 billion years ago
to eliminate all possible combinations.
In XIII Century, Namanides quoted a commentary about Genesis written 600 years before, explaining BEFORE the existence of our universe TIME DIDNT EXIST. This is due to what is written in Genesis 1:5: There was an afternoon and morning, day one. IT WASNT WRITTEN FIRST DAY as stupidly translated in most of the Bibles, because the use of first would implied a series already existing of days in a continuum of time when truly there was no time before that DAY ONE. There was no before and not even after, there was nothing linked to that day. The subtle difference was not noticed in Jerusalem Bible when we read first day, something not happening in Vulgata version translating Jactunque est vespere et mane, DIES UNUS in Latin. That day was unique as day one. With impeccable logic in all the rest of days of Genesis week, are used the ordinal term: second, third, fourth, etc., because from the day two it was already established a series of days, the creation of the universe brought with itself the concomitant creation of time. Hence, commenting about Genesis, both Maimonides and Namanides arrived to the same conclusion and interesting idea: before the creation of the universe, space didnt exist neither time. The creation of the universe brought not just the time in which it flows but the space in which it expands. I already explained the blackness and vacuum was ruach elokim expansive inflation or superhole paying attention to Hebrew words.
In that sense, Hebrew idea wasnt giving a mythical cow, or nothingness opening, or primitive supermaterial linked to a divinity limited to matter existence like Greek gods. Not even in Plato or Aristoteles times their gods could create matter. They were limited by the matter of the Universe and depending on it.
Five hundred years ago, kabalists understood Moses saying God filling eternity, shrank and in that Gods Big Crunch tsim tsum- there was universal Big Bang expansion. God chose 10 dimensions or aspects to form the universe and included into our universe. 10 times is written God said in chapter 1 of Genesis. Kabalists thought only 4 from 10 dimensions are physically measurable while other 6 contracted in submicroscopic dimensions during the 6 days of Creation. So, what Kaku explained in his book HYPERSPACE without saying a word of what I do explain here comes to modern society CENTURIES LATE, I regret to say! The scientists reference to the original space of a grapefruit is just a renewed version of kabalists mustard seed space. Even in Naimonides times he was aware of Hebrew meaning of the creation STARTING IN THE AFTERNOON AND ENDING IN THE MORNING. Christians ignore the fact, the word morning is boker in Hebrew and means distinguished, capable to be distinguish, ORDERED while afternoon is erev meaning confused, mixtured, DISORDERED. Therefore, what Genesis was saying all the time is creation started in the chaotic entropy of the afternoon ending in the quantified order of the morning. Usually Christians dont know either the meaning of the word yown translated as day and the fact Genesis is talking about simultaneous times using different clocks cos the sequence of events is not the same EVERYWHERE. In Exodus 31:17, Genesis 1:1 and 2:4 we clearly see not only the difference between creative days and THE DAY in which both heaven and Earth WERE MADE from a primordial substance. Then AFTER when energy from photons dropped to 3000 K degrees, the electrons could have stable orbits around helium and hydrogen nucleus and the photons not only liberated from universal matter (SEPARATED IS THE TERM USED IN THE JEWISH TORAH IN GENESIS BOOK) but also became visible. This fire was in the water and there was water in the fire, not separated as we know in our dimension. It was neo-kabalist brothers Wacholsky did in SFX in one of MATRIX movies making the fire have the attributes of water. More than 99% of Universal mass is under the form of hydrogen and helium, two of the slightest elements of the universe. That is known. But how many of you know when Genesis mentions the Earth was empty and vague its used the Hebrew words tohu and bohu? The most important physicist of particles in fact use the initial T and B (from ToHu and BoHu) as the two main blocs of formation of all matter. The pressure of forces of Big Bang literally did a fussion of this T and B into hydrogen and helium. So much of Hawkins expertise!