Posted on 09/23/2007 7:07:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
To the ancients, exploding stars were bad news. To astronomer Adam Riess, poring over data from a telescope in Chile, it looked like supernovas were still cursed. He and his colleagues were measuring the brightness and distance of supernovas in order to figure out the little matter of whether the universe would end in fire or in ice. Would it halt its expansion and collapse back on itself in a gnab gib (that's the reverse of the big bang, and passes for humor among astronomers) or expand forever, its light and warmth fading into eternal cold and darkness? But when Riess calculated how much mass the universe must have in order to account for the supernova data, he got a negative number. A nonsense answer—negative mass—"was the first hint that something was wrong," he says.
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Ask God.
Or Charles Henrickson.
Damn! My calculations show 77 percent.
Cosmic ping
The best science can do is to state the Big Bang occurred. They think they can describe the Universe to within a second of the Grand Explosion.
However, they can’t begin to even theorize what was there before that, or what put that sort of matter and energy together, or what caused that. And the moment they come up with something, I’ll be right there asking them, okay, then what caused THAT?
Science asks you to put your faith in the knowledge that we can never know what was “there” before “that,” while those who have always known of God have always had an explanation and always will. And it is something that provides true meaning and allows one to accept that God is God and He wants the best for us.
Science tells us we shouldn’t care about death, because there is nothing we can do about it. God asks us to follow Him and our fears will be wiped away and we will indeed continue.
It’s ironic that something known by the simplest people for thousands of years is capable of so overwhelming the greatest inklings of science with all it claims to date.
I’m fascinated by this dichotomy and saddened that so many are so mislead.
Ironically, about the only mythical cosmology that agrees with current theory to some extent is Kabbalah.
In a very distilled fashion, it states that God wanted to find out if there is anything that is *not* God. So God created an area which is the absence of God, a true vacuum, then with something akin to a lightning bolt, implanted a single particle in the middle of it.
The particle was to endlessly replicate itself until it reflected God, like a mirror, so God would be able to see if there was anything else. Then, its task complete, the mirror would cease to exist, and everything would become God again.
From this interpretation, everything that exists in reality are endless permutations of that particle.
Now, if this description was given to a Kabbalist, no doubt they would scream in anguish at my terrible interpretation that horribly mangles Kabbalist doctrines, but drawing such parallels with current cosmological theory is never going to be tidier than several unhappy cats in a washing machine.
That's a rather pessimistic way of looking at it. The author must be a liberal.
Have you asked Madonna?
It sounds like we are sort of like cosmic dandruff.
It would astound me if every roadblock in scientific understanding elicited a desire to ascribe that lack of understanding to an unknowable mystery force.
Were that the case, we'd all still be hunting with spears, wearing loincloths and bowing to the mysterious, unknowable Sun God.
The truth is too unacademic to accept by the scientific community. Adams posits that dark matter interations are the source of water on our planet...
Not at all.
Science does not preclude belief in God. However, “Science”, when it ascribes a “lack of God” as being a pillar of faith in Science, is wrong.
Speaking of water, it verrrrry interesting that water is one of the few (only?) substances that when frozen INCREASES in volume, thus allowing it to float. If this were not the case, ice would sink to the bottom of the ocean with the end result of prohibiting life on earth.
We are the backscatter of invisible forces. Our God and his son are also part of the unseen world and have given us instructions as to how to survive in our limited domain..
Cosmic laundry lint?
Hey x_plus-one, is that “interactions” or “iterations”?
It makes a conceptual difference, you know.
When one wonders at the wonderful wonder of it all--Copernicus seems downright arrogant.
Can He keep track of all the rabbits, all the euglenas, all the mosquitoes? All the dinosaurs? Is His eye really on the sparrow?
Years ago, when I consulted Andre d'Angelo--who worked with his beloved and then deceased wife, Dory--he told me that the Angel of Joy and the Angel of Gratitude were coming to me. (He also told me plenty more, incluing predictions that came true and personal insights that were invaluable.) I immediately appreciated the gifts of the Angel of Joy--needless to say! The older I grow, the more I appreciate and value the gifts of the Angel of Gratitude, whom I love every bit as much.
I love Alan Ball's final lines of the movie, American Beauty: "I can only feel gratitude..."
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