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Whether You Believe in ‘big bang’ theory or creationism, you’ll want to read this…
KFOR TV ^ | 03/18/2014 | A. Edwards

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: bigbang; creation; einstein; gravitywaves
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1 posted on 03/18/2014 7:57:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

in the beginning was Inflation .....


2 posted on 03/18/2014 7:59:42 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: SeekAndFind
There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago

If there is no way to know, as the author surmises, just how does he know it took place 13.8 billion years ago?

3 posted on 03/18/2014 8:00:18 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Big Bang may be the method God used to create the universe.


4 posted on 03/18/2014 8:01:36 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: SeekAndFind
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?

5 posted on 03/18/2014 8:01:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rjsimmon

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….


6 posted on 03/18/2014 8:02:05 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Proud2BeRight

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.”


7 posted on 03/18/2014 8:04:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

“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?


8 posted on 03/18/2014 8:05:08 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: rjsimmon

It was a Tuesday...... ;-)


9 posted on 03/18/2014 8:05:48 AM PDT by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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To: rjsimmon

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.


10 posted on 03/18/2014 8:08:11 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: SeekAndFind

9 posts and nary a picture of Kaley Cuoco?


11 posted on 03/18/2014 8:09:15 AM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: SeekAndFind

There is no contradiction between “big bang” and creationism. Big Bang posits that the universe had a beginning and that tends to confirm creationism.


12 posted on 03/18/2014 8:11:26 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Right Brother

And that everyone who believes that God created the Universe was/are wrong. That’s billions of people over time.


13 posted on 03/18/2014 8:11:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


14 posted on 03/18/2014 8:12:52 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Sacajaweau

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?


“Theory”, like “non-profit”, has a context. “Theory” is a word used when talking of science - of how things work. “non-profit” is a tax term. It describes the tax rules under which the organization functions.

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.


15 posted on 03/18/2014 8:14:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: cuban leaf

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.”


16 posted on 03/18/2014 8:16:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cuban leaf

http://www.thegodtheory.com/


17 posted on 03/18/2014 8:17:54 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rightwingcrazy
but how small is an electron, exactly?

No one knows. We only know that it is smaller than the last size we tried to elicit from an experiment. Or it doesn't have a diameter.
18 posted on 03/18/2014 8:18:15 AM PDT by ZX12R (Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
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To: Mr. K
In the first millisecond (our current feeling of time) a billion years passed?

Ya see, it took time a while to work out the kinks :)

19 posted on 03/18/2014 8:19:24 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: Sacajaweau

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.


20 posted on 03/18/2014 8:19:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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