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SCIENCE EXPERIENCES BIG CRUNCH
A team from Penn State University will soon be venerated for saving science from its biggest nightmare – namely, how to prove Big Bang through the ‘magic’ of creating something out of nothing.
As we know, Big Bang is the scientific theory to explain the beginning of the universe – a theory that has left us with ‘imaginary time’, and the invention of dark matter and energy to fill 90% of the universe to make the math fit.
Why Big Bang?
Big Bang had to be theorized for we live in a ‘linear’ world where everything has to have a beginning and an end. The previous Steady State theory suggested the universe is eternal and renews itself.
This is no good, philosophically, for our tastes. It smacks too much of eastern philosophy, and a cyclic world where everything goes in cycles of existence. This cyclic world was replaced, in the west, by Genesis, and we’ve needed beginnings and ends ever since.
We are all, it seems, still closet Christians.
Big Crunch
But now we are in the process of escaping from Big Bang creating something from nothing by moving Creation back many tens of billions of years. One suggested ending for our universe is in a Big Crunch, where the universe implodes back to the point of the Big Bang.
This has been suggested for years, but the obvious implication was ignored. This implication is that our present universe may be the result of a previous Big Crunch, thus moving the problem of Creation on to an infinite number of Big Crunches before it.
So all the math and head scratching can be forgotten. We’ve postponed the implication of not knowing what we’re doing to an eternal cyclic Big Crunch leading to Big Bang leading to Big Crunch, ad infinitum.
Eastern philosophy rules, OK!
© Anthony North, July 2007
COCAINE CAPITAL UK
The UK has become the cocaine and heroin capital of Europe. The latest UN report says there is a decline, or leveling out of the problem, in other European countries, but the UK seems to steaming full ahead …
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THE PROBLEM WITH AL QAEDA
Following the recent terrorist activity in London and Glasgow the UK is on top alert again. But maybe it is time to remember what Al Qaeda is, including the reasons for its successes and, most often, its failures …
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