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| − | '''Singularity''' is an event that due to its nature is assumed to only happened once<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book | + | In physical realms the '''singularity''' is an event that due to its nature is assumed to only happened once<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book |
| | |author=John C. Lennox | | |author=John C. Lennox |
| | |title=God's undertaker. Has science buried God? | | |title=God's undertaker. Has science buried God? |
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| | |url= | | |url= |
| | |isbn=978-0-7459-5371-7 | | |isbn=978-0-7459-5371-7 |
| − | |quote=Apart from the obvious fact that no one observed [the origin of the universe], scientists think of the Big Bang as a singularity in the past, an unrepeatable event;...}}</ref> and that has no ''natural'' explanation. Most frequently the term is used in connection with the [[origin science|origin]] of the [[universe]]. When scientific principles were first being developed into the [[scientific method]], scientists like [[Francis Bacon]], [[Johannes Kepler]], [[Isaac Newton]], and [[Lord Kelvin|William Kelvin]] distinguished between primary and secondary (''natural'') causes. A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''first cause'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book | + | |quote=Apart from the obvious fact that no one observed [the origin of the universe], scientists think of the Big Bang as a singularity in the past, an unrepeatable event;...}}</ref> and that has no ''natural'' explanation. Most frequently the term is used in connection with the [[origin science|origin]] of the [[universe]]. When scientific principles were first being developed into the [[scientific method]], scientists like [[Francis Bacon]], [[Johannes Kepler]], [[Isaac Newton]], and [[Lord Kelvin|William Kelvin]] distinguished between primary and [[Natural causes|secondary (''natural'') causes]]. A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''first cause'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book |
| | | author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks | | | author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks |
| | | year=1990 | | | year=1990 |
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| | |isbn=978-0-85234-707-2 | | |isbn=978-0-85234-707-2 |
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| − | |quote= }}</ref> as another parameter goes to zero. There is however a problem how to interpret such terms as an infinite temperature, infinite mass, infinite energy or infinite force in the realms of physics. That's why many [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalistic]] physicists assume that there is some new set of physical laws<ref name="Guth">{{cite web | + | |quote= }}</ref> as another parameter goes to zero. There is however a problem how to interpret such terms as an infinite temperature, infinite mass, infinite energy or infinite force in the realms of physics. That's why [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalistic]] physicists who [[Reductionism|reduce]] their explanations of physical reality to ''secondary (natural) causes'' assume that there is some new set of physical laws<ref name="Guth">{{cite web |
| | |title=ALAN GUTH, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics | | |title=ALAN GUTH, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics |
| | |publisher=MIT department of physics | | |publisher=MIT department of physics |
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| | == References == | | == References == |
| | {{Reflist}} | | {{Reflist}} |
| | + | ==See also== |
| | + | *[[Origins debate]] |
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| | [[Category:Science]] | | [[Category:Science]] |
| | [[Category:Philosophy of science]] | | [[Category:Philosophy of science]] |
| | + | [[Category:Physics]] |