Tom,
"(the theory blows up at the singularity of creation)"
" A probabilistic universe makes no more sense at the cosmological initial condition, than the singularity of general relativity."
All of which further supports the question of whether an initial condition is a valid supposition. Beginnings, as well as endings, are only evident as markers of time units. The question always arises; What came before, as well as; What comes after.
If we were to treat time as an effect of action, then the whole process of beginnings and endings is integral to the present state, as forms coalesce, evolve and dissipate. There is certainly enough evidence that the current cosmology is enough of a patch job, that in any other situation would garner significant skepticism, but this need to pin our arrow of time to some greater framework gives it significant psychological support.
James,
What is order and disorder? Consider it in the relationship of signal to noise. Now obviously, what is signal to one, could be noise to another. Any sound, light, radiation, mass, etc. will have some structure, delineation, bounds, etc. So in that sense, everything could be considered ordered. Yet if you were to try and perceive the entire spectrum of information, energy, evidence, form, order, etc, it would overlap and cancel out to white noise, thus losing the order of any particular observer. So order requires, not just form, but a frame of reference, not to be just random noise. Order is both content and context. Randomness is content without context.
Regards,
John M
