Re: Materialism versus a sense of wonder
- From: Mark Scalise <markscalise@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:21:42 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 15, 1:08 pm, really real <reallyr...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not religious, but I would think one could be religious and still
enjoy living on this planet and enjoying the material things man has
created, pleasures of the flesh, intellectual pursuits, etc. I don't
see materialism and a sense of wonder necessarily being at odds.
However, I am very curious about what preceded the Big Bang. :)
from Planet With Two Suns by Dan Bern
I understand your scientists are working real hard
To unlock the secrets of the universe
They finally figured out the big bang
We've known it for 30,000 years
Every time a big bang booms
Everything stretches out and then comes back again
How many big bangs have there been
That's an easy thing to figure out
The number is 57
Followed by 138 trillion zeros
From http://www.big-bang-theory.com/
"Back in the late '60s and early '70s, when men first walked upon the
moon, three British astrophysicists, Steven Hawking, George Ellis, and
Roger Penrose turned their attention to the Theory of Relativity and
its implications regarding our notions of time. In 1968 and 1970, they
published papers in which they extended Einstein's Theory of General
Relativity to include measurements of time and space. According to
their calculations, time and space had a finite beginning that
corresponded to the origin of matter and energy. The singularity
didn't appear in space; rather, space began inside of the singularity.
Prior to the singularity, nothing existed, not space, time, matter, or
energy - nothing. So where and in what did the singularity appear if
not in space? We don't know. We don't know where it came from, why
it's here, or even where it is. All we really know is that we are
inside of it and at one time it didn't exist and neither did we."
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