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NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory
Peretz writes "NASA has found evidence reinforcing a theory of what took place post-Big Bang and time expansion. They claim: 'Over the course of millions of years, gravity exploited the density differences to create the structure of the universe---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.'"
forgive my odd and stupid question, is that to say that two objects moving away from each in a linear fashion at the same speed, are not both moving half the speed from a fixed point?
BTW, my isp blocks wikoimpedia, something to do with slander, libel, personal defamation... but I can still browse prOn!.... or I haven't looked because I am busy.
Sig Hansen?
Well, I'm a particle physicist and I believe that the concept of a 6000 year old earth (or universe for that matter) is so ludicrous as to defy logic. The only way you could possibly believe that is if you believe that the creator created the universe so as to be at that particuarl state 6000 years ago. It would have been much easier for him (or her or whatever) to have created it 19billion years ago, and then sat around for 18,999,994,000 years until it reached that state and then say, "Ok, time begins right... wait for it.... NOW!" assuming that the big bang occured 6000 years ago is just plain wrong. Sorry, but the stuff thats out there could not have made it to those distances in less than 19 billion years, give or take a few billion years.
Personally, I'd feel better if fundamentalists instead said something like, God created the universe whenever the Physicists said it began, and shaped its creation to bring about the earth as it currently stands throughout that time. Then they get their God, they get their creationism, they get their divine province, but they don't look like idiots to those of us who know better.
"God doesn't play dice with the Universe" - Albert Einstein
"God doesn't play dice with Albert Einstein" - the Universe (only Poker)
Ira
This is stupid there is still no solid scientific evidence of this working, besides where would the matter come from that caused the "Big Bang"? This theory is pretty far-fetched and should have been rejected years ago!