[petuniasevan]

[TxBec]

As always, thanks for the ping!

[2Trievers]

Stephen Hawking, in A Brief History of Time, and other essays, with Penrose showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results indicated it was necessary to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory, the other great Scientific development of the first half of the 20th Century. One consequence of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation and eventually evaporate and disappear. Another conjecture is that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time. This would imply that the way the universe began was completely determined by the laws of science.

These quantum mechanics are fascinating. &;-)

[2Trievers]

For anyone who hasn't seen this great NASA website for kids ...

You can sign up to send your name to Mars in 2003. Way cool! For CHILDREN of all ages! &;-)