Posted on 03/18/2014 7:57:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene.
But scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be. If the discovery holds up to scrutiny, it’s evidence of how the universe rapidly expanded less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
“It teaches us something crucial about how our universe began,” said Sean Carroll, a physicist at California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study. “It’s an amazing achievement that we humans, doing science systematically for just a few hundred years, can extend our understanding that far.”
What’s more, researchers discovered direct evidence for the first time of what Albert Einstein predicted in his general theory of relativity: Gravitational waves.
These are essentially ripples in space-time, which have been thought of as the “first tremors of the Big Bang,” according to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
A telescope at the South Pole called BICEP2 — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 – was critical to the discovery. The telescope allowed scientists to analyze the polarization of light left over from the early universe, leading to Monday’s landmark announcement.
Scientists use the word “inflation” to describe how the universe rapidly expanded after the Big Bang in a ripping-apart of space. The BICEP2 results are the “smoking gun for inflation,” Marc Kamionkowski, professor of physics and astronomy, said at a news conference.
Kamionkowski also was not involved in the project. “Inflation is the theory about the ‘bang’ of Big Bang,” said Chao-Lin Kuo, an assistant professor of physics at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and a co-leader of the BICEP2 collaboration, in a Stanford video.
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I concur. There is no reason to think that these two points are mutually exclusive. In fact, I think there is a very strong likelihood that God did create the universe in this manner. Scripture tells us that God spoke and the stars (universe) was created. The Big Bang seems to fit quite well with that. My faith is enhanced by this as I believe that God is allowing this amazing discovery.
Well put. You can't measure the 4th dimension or beyond with a three dimensional measuring tool.
So to your point, how does God measure "time" when existence is eternal?
If it is true that the expansion of the universe is slowing down, and speed in the universe is a function of time, one could postulate that your comment has merit. Our galaxy is traveling through the universe at a speed. Our solar system is traveling in our galaxy at a speed. And our planet is traveling in our solar system at a speed. Per the theories, could it be that "time" has changed over the last 13 billion years?
If your head is spinning now, see a priest. :o)
They think the size of a quark or so. But we can't seem to see either one. It's all quantum. Duh! lol
Yup. It appears that in the eternal realm, time is variable - it does not limit God.
Ok, so in nanoseconds after the “Big Bang” (creation) the universe was in existence - meaning bits of creation were “instantly” thousands if not millions of light-years apart.
That means they moved at speeds thousands times faster than the speed of light. Which nothing can do.
Right? ;-)
The “big bang” does not sufficiently explain the origin of the universe.
but they are not moving faster than light- if time is variable and millions of years pass within seconds of the big bang, then WITHIN THAT TIME FRAME lightspeed is still the speed limit
unless the speed of light is also variable depnding on the universe size
Absent an objective measure of "sufficiency", any explanation can be insufficient if you want it to be.
“But scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be. If the discovery holds up to scrutiny, it’s evidence of how the universe rapidly expanded less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang”
Sounds like a miracle to me.
Ordinarily... it takes STUFF to Make a Bang...
No Stuff No Bang...
if before the :big bang there was ..as is guessed...no stuff...there could have been no bang.
there is no free lunch!
“in the beginning was Inflation .....”
Lol. It would blow the scientists’ tiny heeds apart if they realized God made the whole universe through Jesus (Hebrews), and that it is held together by Him.
Very interesting post….God is eternal, therefore not constrained by time as we are. And since time and space are ultimately the same physical property, He is thus not constrained by space, or as physicists call it - locality - the way we are.
Once matter is indivisible, it is no longer constrained by locality either….
The world’s most accurate clocks are used for one purpose…navigation. Indeed, time and space and their relationship are amazing…and science has still not caught up to the Bible on that.
“Or it doesn’t have a diameter.”
And here we are told that the universe was assuredly smaller than that. Hm. Perhaps he’s postulating a negative diameter.
Many Scientist are aware of that fact...but by and large the media and academia appear... to Ignore them.....as best they can.
Al Gore is rumored to be preparing a statement to the effect that He And TIpper Created the Universe
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... it’s evidence of how the universe rapidly expanded less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang”
If true, doesn’t that mean it could contract in a trillionth of a second? We also theorize about the beginning, what about the end.
Righto. Genesis 1:1 is just a different way of stating the Big Bang Theory. It also provides information on why the BBT occurred.
Excellent theory...! Could explain why “many” scientist are democrats...! Looking for that “free” lunch.
Also, by using the word asah ("made" or "had made," since it's in the imperfect form y'as) to describe the making of the stars rather than bara ("created"), Genesis makes an interesting prediction: To bara is to create something the likes of which has never existed before, while to asah is to make or work something that is another of an existent kind. (See, for example, the Theological Workbook of the Old Testament.) This is why on day 5, God "created" the animals while on day 6, He "made" more of them.
Therefore, Genesis contains a subtle hint that the sun, moon, and stars (and by extension, planets, asteroids, and comets) that we can see with our naked eyes are not the first stars and planets that God ever created. This again fits perfectly with a Big Bang model, but not so much for Young-Universe Creationism.
Shalom.
The theory comes together in this. Speed is a function of time. And time can be variable depending on speed. It could therefore be postulated that the speed of light over the course of time has changed. By today's "speed of light" standards, scientists must assume that the big bang moved mass (from nothingingness) significantly faster than the speed of light. This would throw off the age of the universe by a good measure.
Look at it another way. If the expansion (speed) of the universe (matter in it) is slowing down, can we assume time then is also slowing? By human's definition of time, we can see objects that are producing light that are 13 billion years old. But if light once moved faster than it does by our standards today, and time has changed, who is to say how old, or how big our universe actually is (Since time and space are linked as a constant in human physics).
(I think I pulled a neuron.)
Thank you!
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