To: queenkathy
To think of how insignificant we are in the realm of the whole creation!
Or to think how insignificant all of creation is. If you spread everything out to a uniform density, you would only have a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.
Indeed, inflationary cosmology calculates that the universe could have started with about 20 pounds of matter and a Higgs field in a very small space. When the field finally settled into its lowest possible non-zero value, it released its pent-up energy to create the matter we see today.
To: BikerNYC
This is probably a really technical question here. But you seem up to it! "They" say that our universe is expanding all the time. How fast? and How far?
117 posted on
04/26/2005 2:07:57 PM PDT by
queenkathy
(A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.)
To: BikerNYC
"...could have started with about 20 pounds of matter and a Higgs field in a very small space." I knew it. Probably some grungy picnic cooler blown off a passing pickup truck.
169 posted on
04/26/2005 6:17:45 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
(I'm in the middle of a book that's hard to put down. ... What's another word for perplexitude?)
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