Posted on 02/25/2008 1:30:39 PM PST by backtothestreets
Heads up! Tomorrow night (February 26, 2008 at 9:00 PM), the History Channel will air a new segment of their Universe series that could be very interesting. It will try to address what was before the Big Bang. This is a subject I don't see anyway of discussing without raising religious beliefs.
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I will watch...some scientists theorize that the universe has been expanding and contracting for eons. Interesting stuff, religious implications aside.
Just a thought in the Lord’s mind.
“This is a subject I don’t see anyway of discussing without raising religious beliefs.”
This is the media we’re talking about. Of course they will find ways to discuss it without religious beliefs. They might have the guts to mention God, but I suspect that the fact that they reference the Big Bang means that its primarily going to be about cosmology. They’ll probably focus on two theories: 1) the ocillating universe theory, adn 2) the notion that there was nothing before the Big Bang, ie. time simply began at that point, and there was nothing before it.
You wonder why it’s on the History Channel, though.
Before the big bang the universe was in a marble played with by gigantic beings with sucker fingers. Haven’t any of you seen “Men in Black?”
It has been a good series and yes this will be interesting. I’m not going to hold my breath expecting them to honor our Creator. I do expect a lot of multi dimensional string theory theories postulated.
“You wonder why it’s on the History Channel, though.”
Unfortunately, the History Channel seems to be going the way of sensational crapola to compete with reality tv. They’re starting a new series about what amounts to Ultimate Fighting Championship...how sad.
Or they’ll throw in references to religion and then debunk it or slight it or make fun of it. The truth is that the Universe before the bang is so long ago it’s irrelevant.
The Universe was just like it is now then, .............there was a big bang.
We’re probably WAY overdue for another.
Did anyone see the Ape story on PBS? Now that one will get ya to thinking.
I’ll pass. They have a hard enough time with real science and religion.
Nah! All the black holes sucked everything up, then they sucked themselves up into a mega-black hole. And then,,,,,KABLOOIE!
Please don’t tell me this show will take away from Ice Road Truck Drivers or the search for Big Foot? I mean if the History channel starts looking into the origins of the Universe, how on Earth can we track Bigfoot?
I guess I will have to turn the Weekly World News.
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This expansion and contraction is not purely harmonic. Each successive expansion reaches farther while each successive contraction fails to replicate the original mass by a greater magnitude. This means that there is a beginning that cannot be replicated - ever.
Quantum theology.
Unfortunately, the weekly World News went under. I hope Ed Anger found another gig!
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