Big Thoughts

I am losing confidence in a few of today's bright guys. Steven Hawkins, for example,  wrote about the universe in complicated and convoluted language. When trying to decipher his books I am, like most mortals,  left with a few questions. He was obviously a genius, but it is clear that only very smart people can understand him. Most of the scientific community simply accepts that there was once a "BIG BANG", and that it was the launching of the  universe. 

But it's only a theory. 

Human beings entered the picture long after the creation of the universe.  Alone amid all species humans seem to have have the highest level of intelligence. Steve suggests that it is at least possible that an alien intelligence we know nothing about is superior.

Why not?

One of our notions is that no one knows has how the universe came into being. We are probably right but could it have been an slowly part of an even larger entity than the universe we know of?   

But let's accept the "big bang" at least until we learn more. 

We do not know where we came from or when, and we do not know what existed before the universe existed, or how far the universe extends. Our experience, scientific and otherwise,  suggests that everything has a beginning and an end. If we can accept that - and then rethink the important questions, perhaps we can form a more accurate picture of where we are going.

Maybe.