Let’s turn the world 🌎around one more time for the better in 2025! Street Art by Banksy.
Our prognostications in 2025
Today, Cryptonite presents our top 12 predictions for 2025 below. When you look at the results of our 2024 predictions, you are going to want to pay attention. While our prognostications are often controversial at first blush, we understand what our readers need to know to survive and prosper, and you can expect us to bat a thousand again in 2025!
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If Google is projected to go from 92% market share to 50% in the area that represents up to 90% of its revenue, is it time to short its stock? 🤔
Startups and Big Semis will chip away at NVDIA's market share.
Nvidia was founded in April of 1993 by current CEO Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem and staged its IPO 26 years ago on January 22, 1999, on the back of releasing the GeForce 256, marketed as the world's first GPU chip that powered the Xbox and later PlayStation 3. Historically, the company's stock price was essentially flat, but Nvidia powered forward and invested billions in AI technology, even when it was still a zero-billion dollar market.
Jensen Huang called Elon's setting up his xAI supercomputer (a cluster of 100,000 x NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs) in just 19 days a 'superhuman' feat, as he says it would take regular humans 4 years to accomplish.
Nvidia's early bet on AI dramatically paid off, and its stock started its way up in 2020 when the company announced its largest GPU, the A100 for AI and HPC (High-Performance Computing), and formerly became the AI chip leader. By 2023, Nvidia's market value surpassed $1 trillion, driven by the generative AI boom, and the company now dominates with an estimated 70% to 95% market share in AI chips.
Today, Nvidia's (NVDA) market cap is $3.5 trillion, with a forward P/E of 49.28, while the average P/E ratio for the semiconductor industry is 34.74. The difference between the two indicates that investors have high expectations for the company's future earnings growth. Valuing and picking stocks is admittedly not our lane. Still, we see Nvidia's stock price as overvalued with a general tech and AI stock bubble. Further, there is a slew of startup competitors that will start grabbing the company's market share in 2025. AMD, Intel, and Google are also making significant strides to compete with Nvidia in the AI chip market.
Cerebras Systems—Recently submitted a NASDAQ listing application for its IPO with an expected valuation between $7 billion and $8 billion.
SambaNova—Has raised over $1 billion in funding, with their last round valuing the company at over $5 billion.
Groq—Raised $640 million last week, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners, which valued the company at $2.8 billion.
Tenstorrent—Has raised over $693 million at a $2.6 billion post-money valuation in December 2024.
Celestial AI—Has raised a total of $338.87 million, valuing the company at $1.2 billion in its last round.
D-Matrix—Has raised a total of $154 million, with the most recent Series B round of $110 million in September 2023.
The shift to 'edge computing' (i.e., localized processing) will also invariably reduce reliance on Nvidia's GPUs as companies like Apple and Qualcomm develop AI-optimized chips for devices.
One badass motherlover whose dominance will be challenged in ‘25.
TechBro leader Elon Musk is not a fan of billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros because he ‘hates humanity and wants to erode the very fabric of civilization.’ So now Elon has described himself as the ‘George Soros of the middle and counterweight to his liberal influence.’
Practice what you preach Elon
“In my opinion, he [George Soros] fundamentally hates humanity. Getting district attorneys elected who refuse to prosecute crime is part of the problem in San Francisco, LA, and other cities. So why would you do that? He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization. George is very smart, and he is very good at arbitrage—he famously shorted the British pound—that’s how he made his money. He used this knowledge to figure out that the lowest value for [campaign contribution] money is a presidential race. Then, the next lowest value for money is a Senate race, then a Congress. But once you get to city and state district attorneys, the value is extremely good. Soros realized that you don’t actually need to change the laws. You just need to change how they’re enforced.”
First of all, as we venture into 2025, we are officially calling bullshit on the antiquated labels 'left,' 'right,' 'liberal,' 'conservative' and 'moderate.' What do those labels even mean anymore? Cryptonite's editorial policy is never to utter political labels, as their only purpose is to insult and manipulate.
Elon's solution is to intimidate Democratic law makers who oppose his policy proposals by threatening to bankroll their 'moderate' political competitors, as he did during the recent budget scrap. Reminder: The Democrats lost because they have become the Party of the Elite. We agree with Elon's views on Soros and his wannabe and much less savvy and intelligent son, Andrew, but becoming a devil to combat the devil won't make you a saint.
As it is, Trump is stuffing his administration with billionaires, and, as we have reported, every single Democratic Party-funding TechBro billionaire (i.e. every top BigTech exec) has popped up at the Mar-a-Lago Estate to wash the Boogeyman's feet out of pure, unadulterated self-interest. All of which will be exposed in 2025.
Both Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos recently had lunch with the president-elect, both of whom came with $1 million in checks to handover to fund the Boogeyman's inauguration. 'First Buddy' Elon Musk, who showed up at both lunches, is renting a $2,000-a-night cottage Mar-a-Lago. 'Hey Boss, is the Lincoln bedroom available?'
OpenAI is another perceived technology Titan that will be diminished in 2025
Our editors have never been a fan of OpenAI, mainly because its results often end with a little sermon we didn't ask for. Political correctness is out of fashion now, and they need to get with it. We predict the company will lose its perceived leadership position in GenAI due to the following challenges and controversies the company faces.
Losing mo’ ? Sam has too much to do and lots to worry about.
Over-Stretched CEO—There are indeed concerns among industry and management experts that Sam Altman is spread too thin, including managing an investment portfolio of over 400 companies valued in the billions. His involvement in so many companies (many of which could be deemed as potential conflicts of interest) is unconventional for a Silicon Valley startup CEO. OpenAI is operating in the most fiercely competitive marketplace in the world and needs 110% of its CEO's attention.
We doubt OpenAI will recapture any market share it earned as the first-mover in the GenAI game. Source: Menlo Ventures
Competition with agile startups and BigTech—OpenAI faces increasing pressure from competitors, particularly from Elon’s xAI startup, Anthropic, and a rising Chinese startup called DeepSeek. A recent study by Menlo Ventures showed that OpenAI lost market share in enterprise AI this year, dropping from 50% to 30%, while competitor Anthropic doubled its share in the sector. Oh, and there are also the major players with unlimited financial resources, like Microsoft (ironically, an OpenAI investor), Google, and Amazon, who are jumping head-first into the AI game.
Open AI models on the move
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is also the founder of High-Flyer, one of China's top quantitative hedge funds, with $8 billion under management.
Chinese 'open AI model' startup DeepSeek just released its new ultra-large model, DeepSeek-V3, which uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to handle tasks more accurately and efficiently. The DeepSeek-V3 model is available via Hugging Face, and it is already outperforming leading open-source models and closely matches the performance of closed models including Anthropic and OpenAI.
Copyright concerns and lawsuits— The company is embroiled in multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, which have raised significant concerns about its respect for content creator rights. The suit includes eight US newspaper publishers, including The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune, as well as a variety of authors and program coders.
Talent exodus—Losing your best talent is a brain drain and usually represents company dysfunction. Just a few who have split the OpenAI scene: Mira Murati (CTO), Bob McGrew (Chief Research Officer), Barret Zoph (VP of Research), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), Jan Leike (Safety team lead), John Schulman (Co-founder and research scientist).
Unorthodox corporate structure—Elon started the company as a non-profit. Recently, OpenAI announced plans to transition OpenAI into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation (PBC), aiming to balance 'societal interests' with shareholder value.🤔 The move to transition to a PBC still breaks proven Silicon Valley startup structures and governance standards, and Elon is suing the company to prevent it from happening. Elon claims that OpenAI is betraying its original mission and colluding with Microsoft to dominate the AI landscape.
The Elon-Zuck Alliance vs. OpenAI—In a surprise move, Elon's nemesis, Mark Zuckerberg, joined his effort to disrupt OpenAI's structure change. In a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Meta has taken a strong stance by urging the State to block the move, stating it would set a dangerous precedent of allowing Silicon Valley startups to exploit the benefits of non-profit status before shifting to profit-making ventures.
The Elon-Zuck cage match
The animosity between Elon and Zuck goes back to 2016 when an Africa-bound SpaceX rocket exploded and destroyed a Facebook satellite.
Later in 2018, before the X acquisition, Elon deleted the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX, supporting the #deletefacebook movement in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
More significantly, Elon and Zuck disagree on the potential dangers of AI, which, given their AI industry statures, could impact industry competition and governance. Zuck calls doomsday predictions about AI to be 'irresponsible' and unnecessarily damaging. Elon claims that Zuck's understanding of the impact of AI is 'limited' and sees AI as a 'fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.' (FYI, we lean with Zuck on this one. Elon obviously devoured too many science fiction novels in his youth.)
Zuck's youth, endurance, and combat training would have assured a quick take-down and tap-out. Artist: AI
At one point in 2023, Elon proposed a cage match with Zuck to settle their griefs but ended up pussing out—which was smart as Zuck would have clearly kicked his ass.
Breaking News:Geoffrey Hinton, the prominent data scientist known as the 'Godfather of artificial intelligence,' is backing Elon in his legal attempt to derail OpenAI. Dr.Hinton, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics in October and worked at Google for more than a decade, is distinguished for his work developing artificial neural networks, the foundation for AI.
"OpenAI was founded as an explicitly safety-focused non-profit and, made a variety of safety-related promises in its charter, and received numerous tax and other benefits from its non-profit status. Allowing it to tear all of that up when it becomes inconvenient sends a terrible message to other actors in the ecosystem."
The robotaxi market has grown impressively, with a market valued at approximately $0.4 billion in 2023, and analysts project it will grow anywhere between 60% and 92% from 2023 to 2030. This sector is not in our lane, but when you see driverless Waymo cars now proving to be better than human-driven vehicles at preventing injuries and property damage, it feels like the Robotaxis is at a critical inflection point. The big picture is that autonomous cars will soon be embraced as a more private, convenient, and secure way to go, and it's easy to see driverless delivery cars and trucks viewed in the same way, especially in urban areas.
Waymo Co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, are pushing for an aggressive scaling up of the business.
Google spin-out Waymo is currently the US leader and now provides around 150,000 rides weekly in cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, with more than 5 million autonomous trips in total. The company is also looking to expand to Texas and Atlanta, with rides available through the Uber app in 2025, and plans to enter the Miami market in 2026. Earlier this month, Waymo also announced its first international testing destination in Tokyo with the taxi app GO and by partnering with Nihon Kotsu, one of Japan's largest taxi operators.
Let nobody do the driving
Waymo—Silicon Valley-based Waymo's 2024 revenues were between $50 to $75 million, with losses potentially reaching up to $1.5 billion.
Tesla— ThTesla Cybercab Robotaxi is testing among employees with a human driver on board for safety and is expected to be produced in big numbers once it gets the green light.
Amazon Zoox—Silicon Valley-based, the company is building a fleet of fully autonomous, purpose-built vehicles optimized for ride-hailing services.
Uber—Silicon Valley-based Uber is partnering with various autonomous vehicle companies to integrate their services into its platform.
Aurora Innovation—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based, pre-revenue, 2023 IPO, targeting April 2025 for deployment of its autonomous delivery trucks.
Kodiak RoboticsSili—Siliconcon Valley-based and is developing autonomous driving systems for long-haul trucking in the freight transportation sector.
Baidu's Apollo Go— China's leading autonomous taxi service available in Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuzhen, Wuhan, Yangquan, and Hefei and has recorded a 20% year-over-year growth and over 8 million cumulative rides.
Pony.ai—Operates a fleet of over 250 robotaxis in four major Chinese cities: Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai.
AutoX—A robotaxi service operation in operating inseveral major Chinese cities, including Shenzhen, Shanghai's Jiading District, and Wuhan.
WeRide—Headquartered in Guangzhou. Valuation surpassed $4 billion after its recent IPO.
DiDi Chuxing—Launched commercial robotaxi operations in Huadu District of Guangzhou.
IPO market opens up!
The Crunchbase chart below says all you need to know about the long, dry company exit seasons venture capitalists and their portfolio companies have faced over the last few years. While we believe that the tech stock market is ripe for some correction, we still have confidence that while the 2025 IPO market might not reach the 2021 heights, it will be a solid year for tech exits.
One thing for sure is there is a backlog of unicorns waiting to unlock more value. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board lists 1,557 tech unicorns that have raised $999 billion in equity capital and are valued at $5.4 trillion. One would think that at least 50 of the companies we cover will go public in 2025.
A slew of of AI companies indeed show the potential to go public in 2025. AI chip company Cerebras Systems—filed its NASDAQ application for its IPO and is expecting its valuation to top $7 billion. Cryptonite 300 companies (see below), including AI chip unicorns —SambaNova, Groq, Tenstorrent, and Celestial AI, as well as AI chip enabling company Rebellions all have the potential to bust out of the IPO gate in 2025. We are also bullish on AI software service 'Centicorns' on our list, like CoreWeave, Tempus AI, Anthropic, and Databricks, and all represent good IPO prospects for 2025.
Washington gets its crypto house in order.
The Bogeyman went from Bitcoin skeptic to Crypto Champ. And why not? The Trump campaign and affiliates raked in over $15 million in BTC, ETH, XRP, and USDC in 2024, using Coinbase Commerce. Previously, Trump sold a whopping $40 million worth of NFTs, including 'Trump Digital Trading Cards’ and 'The America First Collection.' The Trump family has also launched World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for borrowing and lending cryptocurrencies.
As a born-again Crypto Head, Trump campaigned on making America 'the Crypto Capital of the World' and establishing a ‘Bitcoin strategic reserve,' with all the BTC our government confiscates from global criminals. To help him achieves these goals, the president-elect has nominated several officials with significant cryptocurrency industry backgrounds to key positions including:
David Sacks—White House AI and Cryptocurrency Czar, a Silicon Valley veteran and former PayPal COO, and highly successful investor, including investments in companies like BitGo and Bitwise through his VC fund Craft Ventures.
Paul Atkins—SEC Chair Nominee, a former SEC commissioner who previously served as co-chair of the Token Alliance, which develops best practices for digital asset issuances and trading platforms.
Forty percent of American adults now own cryptocurrency, up from 30% in 2023, and the US government is the largest single owner of Bitcoin with over $5.5 billion in its crypto wallet. We are, however, behind many countries, such as Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, Japan, and the EU, in doing the work to develop sound crypto-related policies and regulations.
Other than initiating huge DOGE cuts, creating competitive crypto policies and regulations may be one of the Trump administration's most lasting legacies.
DOGE job cuts and AI empowerment will inspire BigTech, Hollywood and Wall Street to do the same.
After Elon took over Twitter, he laid off 90% of the staff. 'It turns out you don't need all that many people to operate Twitter if you're not trying to run some kind of glorified activist organization and you don't care that much about censoring the people you disagree with,' he explained. Elon and Vivik are taking this sensibility into their new part-time jobs at DOGE, and we bet they will be at least 70% successful in flattening the bureaucracy and showing the world that we are no longer operating like we are still living in the 1980s.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has already got a step ahead of the DOGE trend by slashing 10% of the company's managers, directors, and vice presidents across multiple divisions since 2023 in an 'efficiency drive.' This move is reminiscent of Zuck famously declaring in 2023 the 'year of efficiency' at Meta when slashing tens of thousands of middle managers' jobs. The overall goal is to flatten their job forces by emphasizing 'individual contributor' roles. In other words, managing people is no longer considered 'getting shit done.'
When Apple started to really boom in the mid-1980s, Steve Jobs and cofounder Steve Wozniak decided they needed to hire 'professional management' to manage people.
'It didn't work at all,' said Jobs. 'Most of them were bozos. They knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything. The best managers are great individual contributors who never want to be a manager but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as they can."
When you factor in the emergence of AI tools, which some estimate will shrink laptop worker jobs by up to 18%, the tech world is setting the foundation for a highly prosperous, $200 trillion, Web3 innovation efficiency boom that will span the next 20 years.
Bank’s finally admit to the Commercial Office Bust—next recession?
All this efficiency will finally force banks to face up to the inevitable collapse of the commercial office space business that they have been propping up and praying would make a comeback in the post-COVID era.
The surviving AI-savvy laptop workers will only want to come to work in modern hip office spaces; otherwise, they will work at home. All the sterile and dated buildings built in the '70s and '80s will ultimately be moth-balled, and commercial real estate bankers will end up holding the bag. A staggering $1.5 trillion in commercial real estate debt is set to mature by 2025.😳
The last two asset bubbles that burst—Internet stocks in the 90s and the retail housing market in 2008—drove the US into significant recessions. We are not predicting a big recession here, but it will take more steep Trump tax cuts, tariff threats, the slashing of interest rates, and a very successful DOGE cost-cutting program to soft-land this puppy for it not to happen.😅🙏
The reinvention of the Democratic Party.
This is not a prediction. This is a plea. And honestly, we don't believe it's gonna happen in 2025.
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Comedic relief from the Democrats
"I think humor is one of the best avenues to get at the truth, maybe the best, especially in politics. When someone laughs, it is involuntary. So you can make the audience admit that they agree with you even if they really don't want to. This is one of the issues I have with the left. They can't stand to have to endure a moment of hearing something they don't already agree with. Not that the right doesn't do it, too, but the left does it worse.
Bill Maher with Ann Coulter.
I have liberal friends who just couldn't stand that I invite conservative guests, such as Ann Coulter, on my show. Just think about what this is—that's people who hate me for who I won't hate. It's in their psychological profile; they just have this need for virtue signaling and to have their friends—and I guess everybody on social media—think of them as good people. ‘We're the good people. We know who's good. And it's us.'
There are people who are not particularly enamored with Trump, not blind to his many flaws, but they just feel that the crazy on the left is somehow worse. I don't agree with them, but I get it. I don't hate them for voting for him.
The young people also have no idea, no perspective. Of course, suppose they've gone to elite universities, i.e., asshole factories. In that case, they've been indoctrinated into this idea that they live in the worst country in the world at the worst time in history, when actually they live in, with all our flaws, we are still probably the best country in the world and indisputably in the best time in history.
Republicans will dominate the Democrats in elections as long as the Democratic Party fails to un-convince itself that it is this misunderstood vehicle for what people really want. They often say, when they lose elections, 'We didn't get our message out.' Yes, you did! You got it out loud and clear. The voters just didn't like it.'
—Bill Maher excerpt from his Wall Street Journal interview on Saturday.
Democrats need to dig deep in their hearts and figure this out because our country desperately needs a strong Democratic Party that returns to its non-violent, transparent, free-speech-loving, compassionate roots that is there to catch those falling through the cracks of society.
To accomplish this, you cannot rely on the new elites like the Clintons, the Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, George Clooney, and other Hollywood celebrities, the Soroses, Super Donors, and the people who just received Biden's Presidential Medal of Freedom. They have absolutely no connection with the average American.
In the 2024 election, the Democratic Party lost the Hispanics, the youth, the working class, 7% fewer women than HRK, and 20% of the black vote. The 'Obama era' in American politics is officially over. As Bill Maher points out, you may think you can justify gaslighting voters and other bad behavior because Trump is the Crazy Man—But you just lost to the Crazy Man with a message that was Loud and Clear.
Global citizens are the new journalists…Let’s do the math and be kind to each other.
One event during this past presidential election cycle that sticks out to us was the day when Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris on her Instagram account. It was a thoughtful message inspired by an AI-created video of her 'falsely endorsing Donald Trump's presidential run posted to his site', and she wanted to 'combat misinformation with the truth.’ She corresponded the issues most important to her with her choice to vote for the Harris/Walz team. In doing so, Taylor showed respect for her fans by concluding, 'I've done my research, and I've made my choice. Your research is all yours to do, and the choice is yours to make.'
In a sadly typical Trump response to Taylor's endorsement, the Bogeyman posted on a Truth Social: "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"
"WE LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT!"
There are a couple of reasons we bring this up. First, Taylor was responding to AI-generated 'fake news' (to borrow an expression), which is a new reality we all need to stridently watch out for. Our position is that AI-powered misinformation and its potential to manipulate people in dangerous ways is THE greatest risk of the new AI Era. Secondly, Tayler did her research, made her choice, and magnanimously encouraged her very loyal fan base to do the same. Finally, Trump's childish and mean-spirited personal attack illustrates the dark side of social media.
“WE LOVE MELANIA TOO!”
GQ magazine in 2016: What’s the one habit you wish your husband would give up?
Melania Trump: "Let's see ... Tweeting."
The 2024 election is the first time that Citizen Journalism outpaced Old Media in overall impact. As an example, 53 million people (33 million views within the first 24 hours) watched Joe Rogan's three-hour interview with Trump, which generated 2.2 million likes and over 538,000 comments. The show also generated over 1 million new subscribers for Jumping' Joe within a couple of days. Conversely, Old Media's biggest candidate interview was Kamala Harris's 25-minute (she was 15 minutes late) interview with Brett Baer on Fox News, which Fox claims drew 7.8 million total viewers.
We believe Old Media's obvious collusion with the Biden Administration to cover up his significant cognitive decline (whether overt or not) was the last straw. They didn't learn anything by covering up Hunter's laptop, which was the second to last straw. Viewer movement toward independent Citizen Journalism over that of corporate puppets is only going to get wider in 2025, and nothing's gonna make us edge back. It doesn't mean that some of the corporate-driven social platforms won't continue to put their thumbs on the scale, like when Google admitted to burying the Rogan/Trump show on YouTube so no one could find it right after it concluded. Still, at least we are moving in a more transparent and fair direction.
But when we citizens do communicate, let's do our math and try to sound like Tay-Tay, not an insolent child like you know who.👱
And on the eighth day, Man made Quantum Computing.
We believe that Google's new Willow chip and IBM plans to build the largest quantum supercomputer in the world this year will create profound new opportunities for AI startups in 2025; especially those focused on sectors like drug delivery and genomics, renewable energy, electric vehicle batteries,and cryptography and security that can leverage quantum computing to process complex calculations.
How IBM's new quantum computer relates to the Willow chip
Error Correction: Both IBM and Google are addressing the critical issue of error correction in quantum computing. Google's Willow chip claims to reduce quantum computing errors "exponentially."
Computation Speed: The Willow chip completes a computation in less than five minutes that would take other fast supercomputers 10 septillion years. IBM's system, while not directly comparable, aims to enhance the quality, execution, speed, and parallelization of quantum circuits.
Qubit Count: IBM's planned system with over 4,000 qubits significantly surpasses the Willow chip, which has 105 qubits.
Approach: IBM is focusing on scaling up and integrating quantum systems with classical computing, while Google is emphasizing error correction and speed in their current development.
Ah, the multiverse. This discussion is way above our pay grade, but let's have some fun with it.
The story goes something like this. In 1917, Albert Einstein applied his theory of general relativity to the cosmos, proposing a model of a homogeneous, static, and spatially curved universe. In 1927, however, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Catholic priest, applied Albert Einstein's general relativity mathematics to cosmology. He developed the 'hypothesis of the primeval atom' (a.k.a. the Big Bang Theory) that contradicted Einstein's idea of a static universe and implied the Universe was expanding. When you rewind the theory, it also means that space, time, and energy all had a beginning point of creation.
Holy shit, the universe is expanding! Einstein with Hubble (center).
Since these days, scientists have been fleeing from the Big Bang evidence, into a refuge of abstract mathematics, with theories such as the multiverse, to dispel the idea the universe (and thereby creation) had a beginning.
Contending with the Big Bang
"A sound explanation may exist for the explosive birth of our Universe, but if it does, science cannot find out what the explanation is. The scientist's pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation. This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. To which St. Augustine added, 'Who can understand this mystery or explain it to others?'
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
Spinning forward, the philosophical quandary for non-theistic scientists has been to prove that time, space, and energy did not have a beginning. Unfortunately for them, commonsense interpretation, when you look at the scientific evidence, is that the Universe was initiated by a super-intelligent Creator that exists outside of time, space, and energy.
"A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question."
Sir Fred Hoyle, A renowned astrophysicist (and lifelong materialist), in a statement he made in 1982 about the apparent fine-tuning of the Universe.
At this moment in time, the Big Bang theory remains the prevailing cosmological model, supported by substantial observational evidence. Yet, there exists a band of scientists exploring multiverse theories that they pray might prove there was no point in creation outside of time. However, even the renowned scientist Stephen Hawking pursued alternatives right up until he died in 2018.
"The local laws of physics and chemistry can differ from one pocket universe to another, which together would form a multiverse. But I have never been a fan of the multiverse. If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite, the theory can't be tested."
So, let's tie this all together. It appears that Hartmut Neven and David Deutsch are the two new multiverse kids on the block, dealing quantum computing cards as their new proof. They are both on the right innovation track; whether they prove to be smart philosophers, we shall see. Their test is whether or not they can overcome Dr. Jastrow's frustrations articulated in his book God and the Astronomers (1978). 'It is not a matter of another year, another decade of work, another measurement, or another theory; at this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation,' he wrote. Until then, good luck, gentlemen. We are going to keep betting on our Creator.
Let’s keep the dream alive in 2025! Street Art by Banksy—Steve Jobs, the son of a migrant from Syria.
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