Youdontknowmypickles t1_j4cuiaj wrote on January 14, 2023 at 8:33 PM

Reply to comment by ferrel_hadley in The multiverse by Manureofhistory

Ok I’m back lol. And I do agree: the night sky should be bright if the universe was static, as was assumed in 1900. But we looked for explanations and stumbled upon the expanding universe, which then led to the creation of the Big Bang hypothesis. I don’t know if we can say that philosophy drove the gear for the explanation, but it certainly set about something that then had to be explained, so I see where you’re coming from

InterminableAnalysis t1_j4czh60 wrote on January 14, 2023 at 9:07 PM

I think there's a good sense in which philosophy drives the gear for the explanation, in that the big bang theory eventually comes, at least partly, from a metaphysical consideration of the universe (e.g., importantly, a consideration of the nature of space).