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143CHAPTER 28 What do the stars tell us about time? IFETS EXIST , THEY MUST COME from the stars. However, do we have an accurate perception of the cosmos? In fact, themost important question is if the standard model of the Big Bangreflects reality, for it creates or destroys a large number of deductions.Big Bang equals initial conditions. In an article published 54in 2001, David Albert pointed out that “the initial conditions in question are presented in a remarkably simple andelegant form called statistical mechanics. We do not speak of a uniquephysical situation, but rather of probabilities, of the odds that a certain,specific configuration will appear. These probabilities play a key rolein the scientific deduction eventually established of the temporalasymmetries on macroscopic scales.” This is a breakthrough in scien-tific explanations: asymmetry exists because we have been lucky! Theuniverse as we know it exists, the past comes before the future becauseGod played dice…before they even existed! Almost apologetically, hecontinued: “Every strategy applied to explain temporal asymmetries interms of initial conditions…is therefore ‘slightly’ embarrassing: on theone hand, these temporal asymmetries are the very models and para-digms of physical laws. On the other, we are accustomed to thinkingthat the initial conditions in physics depend on the coincidental, theserendipitous.” Indeterminism creates determinism! In two sentences showing his excellent sense of irony, wit and humorous understatement, this lecturer justified my position withimpressive clarity. We must seriously rethink the current models andparadigms. It is easier to replace the Big Bang model with a more solidmodel. Furthermore, I am defending the idea that consciousness is the