it's a blink of an eye for G O D ..
and a kick in the schwartz for science
What is clear from the Planck investigation is that the simplest models for how the super-rapid expansion might have worked are probably no longer tenable, suggesting some exotic physics will eventually be needed to explain it.
“We’re now being pushed into a parameter space we didn’t expect to be in,” said collaboration scientist Dr Andrew Jaffe from Imperial College, UK. “That’s OK. We like interesting physics; that’s why we’re physicists, so there’s no problem with that. It’s just we had this naïve expectation that the simplest answer would be right, and sometimes it just isn’t.”
The young Earth = 6000 years old crowd is going to have a hard time with this.
If the ‘Big Bang’ was in all directions from the starting point, more or less equally, then wouldn’t stars going in the opposite direction from our viewpoint seem to be ‘older’ than they actually are?..................
OK — So what took the universe so long to “get going?”
Damn, that changes everything.
We haven’t found the middle, and we haven’t found the edges. So that leaves us sorta pointing and shrugging.
What if there is no middle and no edges? What if it just goes on infinitely? That would mean that Whoever made it is...even bigger.