Science reaches the limit of knowledge

Jhim in the first moment? Or is this world of space, time, and matter always present? It is known that philosophy has differed on this matter since Aristotle contradicted his teacher Plato. In his dialogue Timaeus, he wrote that there was no such thing as a period of time “before the appearance of heaven,” meaning that the world and time “began to move at the same time.” But Aristotle demanded the immortality of the world. Immanuel Kant I finally declare that the question is unsolvable. In his major epistemological work, he presented it in 1781 as a “contradiction of pure reason”: both the beginning of time and the limits of the universe as well as against all logical proofs can be presented – but neither can be true. Kant wanted to show how easily a ship could be wrecked with pure, i.e., non-empirical thinking.

The question arises whether this is so, and to what extent empirical natural science can answer the question. In fact, this person went much further than Kant thought possible. Modern astrophysics can claim, on the best empirical grounds, that the observable universe 13.8 billion years ago was a hot, dense ball — say the size of a grapefruit — and then expanded to its present size. This is the Big Bang theory. Today it is universally accepted, even if there is resistance, including from the beginning Albert Einstein.