Note: this topic is from September 23, 2008.
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Posted on 09/23/2008 4:42:13 PM PDT by Soliton
As a practising priest, there was great scope for mediation when Reiss took on such a key role in such a renowned scientific institution, but sadly science and religion really do not good bedfellows make. Yet if the CERN experiment succeeds in its quest to re-create the conditions just after the Big Bang, maybe a way can be found to understand the role of a creator in the building blocks of science. Some scientists believe in the concept of a creator at work behind the Big Bang and that among the possible revelations about ‘dark matter’, anti-matter and space-time dimensions there may also be evidence of a creator in the elusive ‘God particle’, the Higgs Boson. What really happened just before and just after the singularity, a point of infinite density containing the universe, so tightly packed as to have meaning only at the quantum level, exploded, unleashing the fabric of everything, is unknown. Postulated, theorised, predicted, but not known, and until it is known the debate as to what role a creator did or did not play is academic.
Behind the vast momentousness of the experiment at CERN stand a group of men who are true golden philosophers; Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie and others. The backlash for giving credit when it shouldn’t have been given has done major damage to the financial industry. Perhaps it is time to give credit where it is due; all hail the prophets of science!
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Noticed there was no mention of Georges Lemaître.
“a day without yesterday.”
Yep.
How will the scientists know if they have created the conditions of moments after the alleged Big Bang...(a theory increasingly being discarded by “secular” scientists)?
Physicists know what the temperature and energy would have been at certain times after the Big Bang and they are attempting to replicate them at CERN. The theory isn't being "discarded". It is being refined. Unlike clerics, scientists do not know everything, but what they don't know does not invalidate what they do know.
With religion!
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