Mockingbird eggs....................
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Mockingbird eggs....................
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
The idea of all the matter in the universe being compressed to a singularity that somehow did not collapse into a black hole from which no matter could escape was always completely unscientific. It’s merely a religious creation myth dressed up in scientific language.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
This the first time in 20+ years on FR that I would have preferred a 200 word excerpt...(sarc/off)
Before that discovery, atheists pushed the Oscillating Universe theory that, with a veritable infinite big bangs always creating the universe, no Creator is needed to make the laws of physical science just right. Thus, the expectation from the Hubble Telescope's observation about the expansion of the universe was that the expansion is currently slowing down, to one day contract back to a single point and repeat the big bang again. But that's not what was found.
Us Christians can say that the big bang looks like a one-time event and, thus, had to be set up just right by a Creator for all the properties we count on being just right. I.e. if any one of the universal constants were off just a wee bit there'd be no molecular bonding capable of supporting life.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby knew this decades ago. That was the universe that Galactus came from.
If I could save time in a bottle...
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day 'til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
Inflation is bad. We need to stomp out inflation.
Universe age should be an arrow to infinity.
Also, you can go faster than the speed of light.
You’re welcome.
Interesting intellectual exercise, but much ado about nothing important. How the universe began or even if it began, is a fun question to tussle with but has no conceivable bearing on our lives. Like pretty pictures from the new satellite observatory. Fun to see what some galaxy far far away looked like a billion years ago.
A radical thought:
The universe is eternal.
God is eternal.
The universe and God are the same.
And in His immensity He loves us.
The headline suggested to me that the universe did not have a beginning...and not simply that it’s beginning had a quick inflationary phase.
I believe that the universe is so vast for a reason, the distance between stars so great for a reason. God is that reason and if he wills it I’ll be privy to His reasons when he so chooses. In the meantime I appreciate those that continue to explore the universe in search of answers, it’s a noble pursuit, but at the end of the day I hope those same scientists spend a little time under a clear night sky and marvel at what God has created.
I am by no means an astrophysicist, nor do I pl ay one on tv. That being said, the big bang theory as always seemed a bit off to me because of a few things...
1. Scientists believe that the universe is expanding, but I have never heard of from where. Where is the starting point? Have they discovered where the big bang happened? Wouldn’t is be near the center of the universe?
2. How can you make something rom nothing. Elementary science class taught me that matter cannot be created nor destroyed, so if the big bang created everything in the universe, how did it create nothing from something?
3. Light can travel at the speed of light...obviously, but matter cannot. So how did the big bang send matter that has formed into galaxies, stars, planets, etc. billions of light years away from wherever it supposedly began? If the age of the universe is supposedly 13.8 billion years old, matter wouldn’t have had near enough time to travel that far in order to form together to make those things. In fact, the farther away from the center of the big bang that you get, you would have less and less matter...meaning less and less galaxies, etc., but this isn’t the case as galaxies are to be found pretty much throughout the entire known universe.
Well, that sure explains a lot.
Cosmic Ping.
There was a universe before the Big Hot Bang...( Sounds like a night out on the Gold Coast.)
“As you can clearly see, there can be no doubt that there truly are super-horizon fluctuations within the Universe, as the significance of this signal is overwhelming. The fact that we see super-horizon fluctuations, and that we see them not merely from reionization but as they are predicted to exist from inflation, is a slam dunk: the non-inflationary, singular Big Bang model does not match up with the Universe we observe. Instead, we learn that we can only extrapolate the Universe back to a certain cutoff point in the context of the hot Big Bang, and that prior to that, an inflationary state must have preceded the hot Big Bang.
We’d love to say more about the Universe than that, but unfortunately, those are the observable limits: fluctuations and imprints on larger scales leave no effect on the Universe that we can see. There are other tests of inflation that we can look for as well: a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of purely adiabatic fluctuations, a cutoff in the maximum temperature of the hot Big Bang, a slight departure from perfect flatness to the cosmological curvature and a primordial gravitational wave spectrum among them. However, the super-horizon fluctuation test is an easy one to perform and one that’s completely robust.
All on its own, it’s enough to tell us that the Universe didn’t start with the hot Big Bang, but rather that an inflationary state preceded it and set it up. Although it’s generally not talked about in such terms, this discovery, all by itself, is easily a Nobel-worthy achievement. “
Singularities are not allowed in quantum physics because of the Uncertainty Principal, so the universe could not have started that way. What’s amazing to me is that the largest structures we can see in the universe, i.e. cosmic filaments made of supergalactic clusters, are also the smallest things that occur in quantum physics, i.e. tiny vaccuum fluctuations. These are stretched to huge proportions by inflation and frozen in time instead of constantly appearing and disappearing.