Whether You Believe in ‘big bang’ theory or creationism, you’ll want to read this…

KFOR TV ^ | 03/18/2014 | A. Edwards

[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.

[Buggman]

Um the actual command is 'Light be'. There was no qualifier to the command.

"Light be" would be Hayah 'Or. The verb "be" is in the imperfect form, yihi which can indicate a number of things--future tense, future subjunctive, past perfect, etc.--but which the translators have (rightly, to my mind) put forth as the future imperitive. Yes, it involves interpolating in a few words, but nearly all translation from the Hebrew does, due to the compactness of the language.

Since you wanted to talk about Hebrew grammar . . . ;)

For the rest of your post, I don't have a problem with your suppositions, though they are, of course, unprovable. However, I am curious about how you are defining the terms "deep," "earth," and "waters" in the first few days of Creation, and why.

The simplest answer is, perhaps these other beings lack something God has created in humans, namely the dimensional quality of spirit.

Possibly. My own take on the UFO phenomina is that it's a combination of our own cutting-edge tech (the Harrier jet used to get reported as a UFO all the time before they declassified it) and the visitations of spiritual entities in the physical realm. Those spiritual entities definitely lack something we have: They aren't native to the physical plane of existence, nor the masters of it; they don't have gender; and they can't reproduce. In fact, I would surmise that of all the beings that bear the image of God, humans are the only ones who can reproduce . . . which is why the spiritual entities are so fascinated by it.

Time to clock in for work, so until later, Shalom.

[GAFreedom]

OK so the universe was contained in a grapefruit that was infitessimally small which would require infintessimally high gravity.

There is no consensus on how big the Big Bang mass was, assuming that the Big Bang is a correct theory.

It did not occupy space but space was in the grapefruit.

Also unknown. There's no consensus on that either. Don't have enough information.