Four Keys to Cosmology

Scientific American ^ | February 2004 | George Musser

[CarolinaGuitarman]

Prime? :)

[DollarBill]

For later reading...

[PatrickHenry]

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh! I missed the prime.

[VadeRetro]

Console yourself. Maybe 103 is prime.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Something tells me that the predicate "filled it" needs a subject, and that it begs the question to say that "inflation" filled anything.

The article is bullcrap - - just somebody using a thesaurus and taking bong hits - - then shazam! They had an immaculate conception to write something...

The “Big Bang” theory is really an admission the universe is an immaculate conception... (in more ways than one).

[Darth Reagan]

In other words, why, as the brew inflated itself, did the electrons have one negative charge and the protons have one positive charge, and why did the electrons and the protons behave as they did with each other?

That's a reasonable question, and I think the science is concerned with explaining how things work. Not why. To me it is clear why there was a big bang singularity that resulted in everything we see, from strings and membrances and quarks and leptons to Quasars and Galaxies to amoebae that evolved to homo sapiens. Because God wanted it that way.

[Michael Bluth]

What a great response!

Thanks.

I would only add one thing to what you have said.

And that is to say that God not only wanted it that way, but that God had a plan -- a plan that includes me.

And you, too.

[Darth Reagan]

"Membrances"??? What the heck is a membrance? I meant membranes. Sheesh.

[Michael Bluth]

I knew what you meant.

I need to go arrest some development now.

[PatrickHenry]

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