Since the big bang, the universe has swollen like a freshly formed raisin roll put in a warm place to rise. Until recently, it was thought that this increase in size was occurring evenly in all directions, as with a good yeast dough. Astrophysicists call this “isotropy”. Many calculations on the fundamental properties of the universe are based on this assumption. It is possible that they are all wrong – or at least, inaccurate – thanks to compelling observations and analyses of the scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Harvard.
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The second possibility.
What’s god have against Inflation and gravitational waves?
“Till then, you’re better off fearing Him and keeping His commandments, and ceasing with questions whose answers you’re not ready to understand.”
Sounds like Genghis Khan – now he was a piece of work, to be sure.
Reminder …. can u please ask your invisible friend for this weeks Loto numbers. Thanks 😉
I don’t know about RT’s “Khan god”, but my god made Inflation and gravitational waves and then wanted us to figure out how.
BTW – Eisenstein already said that “god doesn’t play dice” sorry dude, you’ll have to work for that new F150.
Eisenstein eh ??? Is he Albert Einstein’s cousin?
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No, he’s my next door neighbor, but smart, smart as a whip in fact.
Einstein wasn’t always right – and sometimes he even came to admit it. In later years he addressed this matter with a letter that read, “Thank you for proving me wrong.”
The correct formulation is “God doesn’t gamble with the universe.” i.e. God is the house taking house odds, with the number of rolls of the dice so incredibly large that house odds amount to certainty.
Depends on how many dice – Eisenstein say’s that the probable outcomes of 2 dice is 36.
That’s not a big number to allot of folks.
“Its only practical use is as cotton wool to fill the hole in the hearts of our intellectual superiors . . .”
Could be worse. They could be doing string theory.
It shouldn’t be entirely surprising that there may be an asymmetrical expansion. Based on astronomical observations, the mass in the universe doesn’t appear to be uniformly distributed.
I’ve observed that too many see God as a magical being that grants wishes.
Then there are those that buy the myth of God as an all powerful being that moves events like pieces on a chess board.
First, God loves us, with all our faults. Because he loves us, has given us free will.
Second, God is a spiritual being, and is connected to us through our spirit. That spirit belongs to him.
Third, because God is of the spirit, he has left us to make our own decisions with regard to mans world. Everything that happens in this world, nations, politics, wealth, poverty, wars, peace, he has left to us. There won’t be any divine intervention to give someone winning lottery numbers or start or stop wars.
God is a divine being that is at a level of sophistication far beyond what any physical being could ever imagine to hope to comprehend. Anyone thinking they do is at an equal level of ignorance.
God could intervene in the physical, but it means breaking his own rules that allows man freedom to live as good people or as bad. If he breaks that covenant he also gives leave to the other to act in similar fashion.
You don’t want that.
But I digress.
Cosmology, and the rest of the science is mans slow advancement to at some point gaining enough sophistication to a point where we might grasp the reality of God. Till then, we are, to paraphrase a certain movie line “merely so much fart gas”.
There may be many more scientific discoveries that await mankind, and some we will find to be false *cough*climate change*cough*.
My point, sorry for the long screed Kate, is that people come up with explanations for stuff all the time that sound plausible based on what we “know”. If we think there is a god of thunder because we don’t know about precipitation and electric charges, then we end up naming a day after that deity because we lack the sophistication to see it otherwise.
“There may be many more scientific discoveries that await mankind”
You meant Peoplekind I hope.
And on the seventh day he rested – just like our dear leader.
Thanks for posting Kate. I don’t know how you find the time to do all the things that you do!