Rapid Expansion
Two weeks ago, physicists announced that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second.
Really!? Huh. Just figured that out, didja? Interestingly, they failed to find out how? Or where this marble came from.
I've got a book, by the way, written over 3,500 years ago, that tells everything.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy is neither being created nor destroyed, but merely changes its state to remain in equilibrium.
Antoine Lavoisier, who was (somewhat paradoxically) both a brilliant chemist as well as a Frenchman, similarly postulated the principle of the conservation of matter.
Albert Einstein then hit upon his famous equation, E=mc2, where energy equals matter multiplied by the speed of light squared. The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second - squared, it's 125 trillion mph (that's right quick). He also noticed that light acts as both particles and waves, giving rise to quantum physics, and that the speed of light is the ceiling as far as how fast something can go (just as absolute zero is as cold as something can get, because all motion stops). Therefore, thanks to Einstein, we can think of the photon as the basic unit of energy or matter.
So...if no matter or energy is being created or destroyed, where did it come from? Scientists tell us that if you trace it all back, it started with a mysterious 'singularity'.
The aforementioned book says,
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)
Fiat Lux!
So God brought into being out of nothing (ex nihilo) all the energy required for all of creation with one simple phrase!
Singular, indeed!
Scientists have also calculated that the universe is 13.7 billion years old (give or take 200,000). This, to my mind, is akin to ants on the side of a full bathtub with a dripping faucet calculating how long it took to fill the tub at the current rate of drippage.
Seems to me, any Supreme Being capable of speaking into existence all the energy and matter that will ever be, didn't need a long time to do it. He just filled the tub and let the faucet drip, so we could appreciate his handiwork.
Rapid expansion is quite the understatement.
Really!? Huh. Just figured that out, didja? Interestingly, they failed to find out how? Or where this marble came from.
I've got a book, by the way, written over 3,500 years ago, that tells everything.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy is neither being created nor destroyed, but merely changes its state to remain in equilibrium.
Antoine Lavoisier, who was (somewhat paradoxically) both a brilliant chemist as well as a Frenchman, similarly postulated the principle of the conservation of matter.
Albert Einstein then hit upon his famous equation, E=mc2, where energy equals matter multiplied by the speed of light squared. The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second - squared, it's 125 trillion mph (that's right quick). He also noticed that light acts as both particles and waves, giving rise to quantum physics, and that the speed of light is the ceiling as far as how fast something can go (just as absolute zero is as cold as something can get, because all motion stops). Therefore, thanks to Einstein, we can think of the photon as the basic unit of energy or matter.
So...if no matter or energy is being created or destroyed, where did it come from? Scientists tell us that if you trace it all back, it started with a mysterious 'singularity'.
The aforementioned book says,
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)
Fiat Lux!
So God brought into being out of nothing (ex nihilo) all the energy required for all of creation with one simple phrase!
Singular, indeed!
Scientists have also calculated that the universe is 13.7 billion years old (give or take 200,000). This, to my mind, is akin to ants on the side of a full bathtub with a dripping faucet calculating how long it took to fill the tub at the current rate of drippage.
Seems to me, any Supreme Being capable of speaking into existence all the energy and matter that will ever be, didn't need a long time to do it. He just filled the tub and let the faucet drip, so we could appreciate his handiwork.
Rapid expansion is quite the understatement.
posted by Jim at 9:10 PM
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