Posted on 03/18/2014 7:57:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene.
But scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be. If the discovery holds up to scrutiny, it’s evidence of how the universe rapidly expanded less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
“It teaches us something crucial about how our universe began,” said Sean Carroll, a physicist at California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study. “It’s an amazing achievement that we humans, doing science systematically for just a few hundred years, can extend our understanding that far.”
What’s more, researchers discovered direct evidence for the first time of what Albert Einstein predicted in his general theory of relativity: Gravitational waves.
These are essentially ripples in space-time, which have been thought of as the “first tremors of the Big Bang,” according to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
A telescope at the South Pole called BICEP2 — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 – was critical to the discovery. The telescope allowed scientists to analyze the polarization of light left over from the early universe, leading to Monday’s landmark announcement.
Scientists use the word “inflation” to describe how the universe rapidly expanded after the Big Bang in a ripping-apart of space. The BICEP2 results are the “smoking gun for inflation,” Marc Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy, said at a news conference.
Kamionkowski also was not involved in the project. “Inflation is the theory about the ‘bang’ of Big Bang,” said Chao-Lin Kuo, an assistant professor of physics at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and a co-leader of the BICEP2 collaboration, in a Stanford video.
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in the beginning was Inflation .....
If there is no way to know, as the author surmises, just how does he know it took place 13.8 billion years ago?
The Big Bang may be the method God used to create the universe.
Big Bang is considered a theory
Evolution is considered a theory
God?? Why do so many people believe in God rather than call him a theory?
not only that…but what is 13.8 billion years. Einstein, and modern quantum physics demonstrates that time is a physical property, and has not been constant over the life of our universe. In fact, the multiple indicates that as time has changed speeds….14 billion years might equal about 6 thousand years today.
Just sayin….
Exactly......To me science is trying to understand how God works, be it Evolution or whatever...Never understood why the two are incompatible.
Reminds me of the old joke.
Man goes to God and asks.....”What’s a million years to you?”
God replies, “A second.”
Then the man asks God, “What’s a million dollars to you?”
God answers, “A penny”
Then the man asks God, “Can I have a penny?”
And God answers, “Sure, in a second.”
“Certainly everything in the universe that we see now, at one time before inflation, was smaller than an electron”
I suppose he was trying to simplify things, but how small is an electron, exactly?
It was a Tuesday...... ;-)
What I always find amusing is that hard core big banger/evolutionists are never totally sure how everything began but are ABSOLUTELY sure that it was NOT created.
9 posts and nary a picture of Kaley Cuoco?
There is no contradiction between “big bang” and creationism. Big Bang posits that the universe had a beginning and that tends to confirm creationism.
And that everyone who believes that God created the Universe was/are wrong. That’s billions of people over time.
What if time itself was variable too? Depending on the current size of the universe.
In the first millisecond (our current feeling of time) a billion years passed?
Theory
Big Bang is considered a theory
Evolution is considered a theory
God?? Why do so many people believe in God rather than call him a theory?
Meanwhile, God is about WHY as well as the spiritual realm (outside our own laws of physics). Since the scope of science is confined to our laws of physics, it can’t begin to even deal with that. Using science to prove or disprove God is like trying to use a screwdriver as a hammer. It’s the wrong tool for the job.
Who created the Physics?
Like when the scientist goes to God and says, “We don’t need you anymore...We can make man from dirt just like you did.”
God says, “Ok, show me.”
The scientist says, “Ok, give me some dirt.”
And God says, “Oh no....you make your own dirt.”
Ya see, it took time a while to work out the kinks :)
Thing is, I don’t need God to be a theory for the same reason I don’t need my wife or my dog to be a theory.
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