Monday, March 26, 2012

The Laws Of the Universe vs Religious sense

I listened to two speeches over the weekend. I completed one blog & just couldnt wait to finish work today, to come home to start this blog. My mind was in a dark empty space, as I routinely carry out my duties at work.
Religion already knows everything according to the bible, sterile or boring? The universe is a sense of discovery, a journey into the unknown, an interesting mystery? How did the universe begin? How will it end, with big bang or crumble?
Professor Lawrence Krauss originally from Cleveland Ohio, currently residing in Phoenix, is one my much admired physicist professor from Arizona State University who engages in ongoing research for new theories so much so, that my mind enters into the empty dark space, much of which exists within the universe, 70% according to him. One of his research projects is based on cosmology and how it changes our universe.
You just must listen to this man, a universe out of nothing!  He's charismatic & even if you are not interested in the least bit about the age of the universe or dark matter, dark energy, his audio, video & kinesthetic dramatic ability to draw you to concur with his conclusions through his ample sense of humor is simply breathtaking. 
He started off with Einstein theory of relativity 1916, conventional wisdom, gravity pulls and changes matter, how objects moves in space, galaxies move away from each other, so that the universe is expanding & how space expands & contracts, how things like light can curve around a mass, motion of planets around the sun, then rumbled onto Hubble. Hubble started as a lawyer and ended studying astronomy, lol.  Mind you, my knowledge of physics is zero-rated. So for me to go into the actual formulae of protons and measuring the speed of light, I don't have a clue. 
Nothing is nothing anymore from the law of  quantum mechanics & the theory of relativity.  The universe is a boiling brew of particles. Nothing is something. However, I did manage to grapple with the thought that each of us is the result of a star. The atom in left hand may be different from atom in right hand, particles & gases explode, Standard Candle after Hubble, says that the age of universe is 13.27 billion years! Stars exploded so that we could be here. Imagine, I am a Roman Catholic & I have begun to believe that Christ didn't die that we might have life! It's the stars that died that we might have life, :-) The galaxies are always expanding, stopping & continuing in a flat universe. Professor Lawrence Krauss is continually proving that the universe is either open, closed or flat. If the universe is open or closed, the probability of gas explosions and the big bang theory, the world will end but HOW. This is the reason for his continous 'research in motion' ("RIM"). Professor Lawrence recognises cosmic humility for we cannot know everything, we cannot see into 'the future that remains a mystery'. His humor is added by his piece, that we are lonely & ignorant but dominant if we are Americans, lol.  We all know that the earth is round, but outside the earth, there is space which is 30% dark matter & 70% of universe resides in empty space ie dark energy.  The earth is insignificantly less than 1%. I find it so intriguing because, if the universe is flat, then the world has no end which according to the prayer, 'Glory be to the Father & to the son & to the holy spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, AMEN! 

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