Not trying to bring real science on to a thread featuring RL but I thought that the article this link points to might be of interest to some of the readers on this thread. I have been trying to find an article like this to post for a while but most get too deep into the math or physics to be useful to someone not knowledgeable in the subject. I think this one does a nice balancing job.
To point out all of RLs ignorance of the current state of physics would be a lifetime job. I could talk about how matter is constantly created and destroyed at the subatomic level, RL's reading of the law of conservation of energy notwithstanding; but this deals in subtleties that are difficult to handle on this type of forum. What I wouldn't have given for science concepts to be as cut and dried as the colloquial pros approximations used by RL for his leaps of illogic. But, of course, reality is much more subtle than that.
The article for which I provided the link is on the topic of: what, if anything is outside our universe and how this can be incorporated into real science. Davies article gives a good overview of both the pros and cons of this concept and the role it can play in real science. Before the quantum theory speaking of these types of things or inquiring what came before the BB was absolutely beyond the formalism of physics, QM may have turned this all on its head. If you are not up to date on this kind of information you may find it interesting.
(Below the link I have provided a brief bio of the author to show that he is quite in the mainstream of physics. Well, at least his work is considered of a caliber that he has had an asteroid named after him.)
The up to date, real science, clearly written is, at least, a nice break from RL's utter BS. Enjoy.
http://cosmos.asu.edu/publications/papers/MultiverseCosmologicalModels%2083.pdf
Bio:
Paul Davies is theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, author and broadcaster. He now works as a College Professor at Arizona State University, where he is setting up a research institute that will examine fundamental concepts in science. Davies previously held academic appointments in the UK, at the Universities of Cambridge, London and Newcastle upon Tyne. He moved to Australia in 1990, initially as Professor of Mathematical Physics at The University of Adelaide. Later he helped found the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, based at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research has ranged from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, and includes the properties of black holes, the nature of time and quantum field theory.
In addition to his research, Professor Davies is known a passionate science communicator. He gives numerous public lectures each year throughout the world and has written twenty-seven books, both popular and specialist works, which have been translated into many languages. He writes regularly for newspapers, journals and magazines in several countries.
Among Davies's better-known media productions were a series of 45 minute BBC Radio 3 science documentaries. Two of these became successful books and one, Desperately Seeking Superstrings, won the Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship. In early 2000 he devised and presented a three-part series for BBC Radio 4 on the origin of life, entitled The Genesis Factor. His television projects include two six-part Australian series The Big Questions and More Big Questions and a 2003 BBC documentary about his work in astrobiology entitled The Cradle of Life.
Paul Davies has won many awards, including the 1995 Templeton Prize for his work on the deeper implications of science; the 2001 Kelvin Medal from the UK Institute of Physics and the 2002 Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society for promoting science to the public. In April 1999 the asteroid 1992 OG was officially named (6870) Pauldavies in his honour.
