Bet that was a real shock to this the Father.
Posted on 05/29/2015 2:32:28 PM PDT by lbryce
Who hasn't looked up at the star-studded night sky and wondered, "Where did everything come from?"
There are many ways to address this question. It was Edwin Hubble whose telescopic observations of galaxies in 1929 led to the major discovery that the universe is expanding, and that the rate of expansion is proportional to how far the galaxies are from one another. The farther apart they are, they faster they are going. This result implies there was a time about 13.75 billion years ago when the universe began in an event we now call the Big Bang.
The evidence suggests the Big Bang was something mind-blowing in its scale, described in the theory of inflation, first presented by Alan Guth in 1979 and elaborated upon in his book "The Inflationary Universe" (Perseus Books, 1997). Guth suggests the entire universe came essentially out of nowhere, at a rate that is incomprehensible: Within a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, the universe expanded by a factor of 1078 in volume — that's a 10 with 78 zeros after it. We really have no idea how this happened, which naturally gives rise to many theories.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
actually, the article introduces new observations, theories about the Universe I've never heard before in a clear easy to understand way.
They now say that there was no Big Bang. Everything has existed for ever.
Huble was right....
Can someone explain this meaningless juxtaposition of unrelated terms: “hidden time”.
Mark
I’m afraid most people just don’t understand the gravity of the situation.
Stephen Hawking has said “asking what happened before the big bang is like asking what is one foot north of the north pole.”
Not to be confused with hidden fees.
Could you expand on that?
It's a scientist's way of saying "only a miracle could explain what happened" without using the actual word "miracle".
Be Serius.
*Sirius
It is just possible that our ability to comprehend it is almost as strong as a dog’s ability to understand FM Radio.
rofl!! what the @#$ is your IQ if this is clear and easy to understand? mine is 140 and i didn’t understand a word of it. There are too many geniuses on this board and it’s hitting my self esteem lol
>> Can someone explain this meaningless juxtaposition of unrelated terms: “hidden time”.
A complete discussion of this concept has already been posted on that other thread.
Speaking of not understanding gravity...
Well my IQ is not 140, but I got through half of the article before passing out.
***It was Edwin Hubble whose telescopic observations of galaxies in 1929 led to the major discovery that the universe is expanding.***
Fr. Lemaitre could have looked in the Bible..... where it says “God stretches out the heavens” seventeen different times.
Of course, why would a priest look there???
That was their pre-Lemaître position.
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