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Because as I stated, Martin Bojowald, has worked out a theory that would combine both relativity and quantum mechanics.  The great thing about science, is that it can be tested.  It can be falsified.  And in the next few years, we should be able to do just that with his theory.




What Bojowald’s work does, as I understand it is simplify the math enough to be able to trace some properties of the Universe backwards, right down to T=0, which he calls the Big Bounce. The previous Universe collapsed down, and "bounced" outward again, forming our Universe. No doubt the physical aspects of this previous Universe were somewhat different; the quantum uncertainties at the moment of bounce would ensure that. It may have been much like ours, or it may have been quite alien. In his equations, it’s the volume of that previous Universe that cannot be determined. How big was it? It may literally be impossible to ever know.


In a sense, this uncertainty wipes the slate clean after a Universe crunches back down.





But it’s fascinating, and provides a glimpse into the future of cosmology, where we may not be limited by the one singular Universe in which we live.


The point im making, is that there are several competing theorys, which can be can be verified or falsified based on observations, because they make predictions.  It amuses me, that you find such theorys implausible, yet have no problem ending an infinite regress by planting a God, that can'not be proven in any way.  As if that were somehow a better more reasonable solution.  Because of course this begs the question, if God created the universe, then what created God? 


Another theory, called Brane Theory, is similar it posits that there are other Universes as well, and they, well, they bounce back and forth, colliding every few hundred billion or trillion years. And that’s not even the weird part of brane theory… it might be able to explain dark matter and dark energy, and why our Universe appears to be accelerating. It’s well beyond what I can write here.


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