Posted on 10/24/2015 11:39:43 AM PDT by lbryce
Although impressive, the number of galaxies found at this early epoch is not the team’s only remarkable breakthrough, as Johan Richard from the Observatoire de Lyon, France, points out. “The faintest galaxies detected in these Hubble observations are fainter than any other yet uncovered in the deepest Hubble observations.”
By looking at the light coming from the galaxies the team discovered that the accumulated light emitted by these galaxies could have played a major role in one of the most mysterious periods of the universe’s early history — the epoch of reionization. Reionization started when the thick fog of hydrogen gas that cloaked the early universe began to clear. Ultraviolet light was now able to travel over larger distances without being blocked and thus the universe became transparent to ultraviolet light.
By observing the ultraviolet light from the galaxies found in this study the astronomers were able to calculate whether these were in fact some of the galaxies involved in the process. The team determined that the smallest and most abundant of the galaxies in the study could be the major actors in keeping the universe transparent. By doing so, they have established that the epoch of reionization — which ends at the point when the universe is fully transparent — came to a close about 700 million years after the big bang.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Big Bang. Hah!
Hawkings now argues that there need not be an event to start the big bang. That there is no reason to believe there was a cause.
It just was and always will be.
Well, Muslims call their god Allah, Christians call their God Jehovah (among other names), and evolutionists call their god Big Bang.
In other words, the Big Bang is a Big Banging.
Hmmm...sounds familiar. Not surprising that this universe would mirror its Creator.
while still others point to the monads ...
Moses: 33 And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten.
34 And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which is many.
35 But only an account of this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power. And there are many that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man; but all things are numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them.
38 And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words. (Moses 1:33-35, 38)
A very non scientific explanation from a very scientific source. What a cop out. He should detach his speaker box and not offer anything that demonstrates his hypocrisy.
Couldn’t agree more.
I mention it too much on the board and not for sympathy but it just fits certain posts.
After my head injury, (and eight years later i’m still healing which puts to bed the ONE YEAR recovery period doctors give for the brain. That’s nonsense, Recovered a LOT 4 and 5 years later) I realized how miraculous the BRAIN IS. it’s not a fluke.
It’s INCREDIBLE with everything from eating to loving to think to sex to sleep!! you have no idea!!
and if it gets hurt, boy weird things can happen. i could print the list but it’s too long.
i always took the brain for granted. It is more complicated than ANY machine will EVER be or any robot.
think of driving. you squeeze through two cars without slowing down. At least i do. How many calculations is your brain making to do that? thousands? millions?
you don’t write on paper the distance between the cars then figure out the best angle and on and on, you just do it like it’s nothing!!!!
ok, i’m done rambling :)
Couldn’t agree more.
I mention it too much on the board and not for sympathy but it just fits certain posts.
After my head injury, (and eight years later i’m still healing which puts to bed the ONE YEAR recovery period doctors give for the brain. That’s nonsense, Recovered a LOT 4 and 5 years later) I realized how miraculous the BRAIN IS. it’s not a fluke.
It’s INCREDIBLE with everything from eating to loving to think to sex to sleep!! you have no idea!!
and if it gets hurt, boy weird things can happen. i could print the list but it’s too long.
i always took the brain for granted. It is more complicated than ANY machine will EVER be or any robot.
think of driving. you squeeze through two cars without slowing down. At least i do. How many calculations is your brain making to do that? thousands? millions?
you don’t write on paper the distance between the cars then figure out the best angle and on and on, you just do it like it’s nothing!!!!
ok, i’m done rambling :)
funny name for a God lol!!
come on. A minuscule spec explodes into an entire universe and leads to life and incredibly intelligent species (not dems) and it was all just a big fluke.
makes sense to me
Nothing like The Book of Mormon to legitimize things.
I never cared much for Hawking. Perhaps it's because listening to him try to communicate is uncomfortable. Perhaps I'm way too much of a rube to understand what smart people understand even if they don't know.
The concept of the Big Bang is way more than fascinating. People who understand it...sort of...say it was neither big nor loud. They describe where we were before the Big Bang, again, without the ability to comprehend it. I always wondered what surrounded that microscopic speck that banged into everything we see.
I always wondered what got it started.
This is an area where Hawking's understanding and mine are about equal.
His explanation is, "That isn't important. Therefore it requires no explanation." His answer to why the Big Bang banged is, "Becuz." Maybe I missed something.
There is a permutation of a line from Air America, one of the great lines in the history of moviedom. It goes something like this: I'm sixty-four yeare old, and so far I haven't figured out anything.
that is a great line. I have a new hypothesis that most adults are really not adults but just children with an older age. How quickly can you learn and grow in 40 years in a universe that’s been around 13 billion years? none of us know what the hell happened lol. I’m betting on that it was God and He sent His Son to save us. If I’m wrong I’ll be dead and I won’t know I was wrong lol
There was something on one of the science shows about the chain of events needed to allow life to exist on earth.
If every link in the chain of events were a grain of sand, and you laid them side by side from here (In Scotland, I think) to the equator, and that chain was needed to allow man to exist, then you removed one of those grains, the earth becomes a dead rock.
That sounds a lot like infinity to me. I've been a nitwit in life about so many things. Perhaps I am about this, too. There's a source or intelligence out there that can or has made sense of it all. I will aspire to understand or approach that until I'm no longer sentient. Along the way I would still like to comprehend the universe that is my home. It's pretty big.
there is an argument that goes like this: of course we are here to see the one in a 10000000000000000000000000000000 chance because, basically, we’re here.
just like if you saw the Jets win at a game, you saw it because you were there when it happened. Didn’t happen any other day or year or century or minute.
you happened to be there to see it.
so we happened to be born into the one planet at the right time where all the grains existed in a chain.
not my argument, just one that is out there.
and i’m quite certain you’re a very smart person.
Thanks lbryce, extra to APoD.
“evolutionists call their god Big Bang”
You flatter yourself with your own self serving lie and strawman argument. The research and science of evolution is in significant part the work of Christians and regarded by much of the Christian community as consistent with Christian theology, Catholic, Protestant, and Baptist. See:
Catholic Church and evolution
Since the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in 1859, the attitude of the Catholic Church on the theory of evolution has slowly been refined. Early contributions to the development of evolutionary theory were made by Catholic scientists such as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel. For nearly a century, the papacy offered no authoritative pronouncement on Darwin’s theories. In the 1950 encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII confirmed that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution, provided that Christians believe that the individual soul is a direct creation by God and not the product of purely material forces.[1] Today, the Church supports theistic evolution(ism), also known as evolutionary creation,[2] although Catholics are free not to believe in any part of evolutionary theory.
Evangelicals Debate Theishttp://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-debate-theistic-evolution-historical-adam-78570/tic Evolution, Historical Adam
It just was and always will be.
How utterly preposterous. What is the name for "that" science? The "it was and always will be" effect. Whatever happened to cause and effect?
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