[blueplum]

Let There Be Light

[timestax]

bttt

[Fzob]

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 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.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The CMBR was technically the first light, even though it had redshifted to below human visibility by this time.

[ClearCase_guy]

[MayflowerMadam]

“Ancient Light Source” = God.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

They found God?

Catholic Tabernacle?

[lurk]

I got my pre-supposition in this hand, and my telescope in my other hand.

We’ve not found either the center or the edges of this universe thing yet.

[DoodleBob]

a dark void filled with a fog of primordial hydrogen gas

[Stosh]

This is from “Popular Mechanics:? - sounds more like something one would find in “Popular Quantum Mechanics”.

[Magnum44]

[minnesota_bound]

The Last Question Isaac Asimov - word doc link to whole story.
https://tinyurl.com/bdhwbtkp

Man said, “AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?”
AC said, “THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
Man’s last mind fused and only AC existed — and that in hyperspace.

Matter and energy had ended and with it, space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.

All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.
But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.

A timeless interval was spent in doing that.
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.
But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer — by demonstration — would take care of that, too.
For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.

The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.

And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light——