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I thought this comparison with Hubble was pretty cool.
https://petapixel.com/2022/07/12/com...at-hubble-saw/
Courtesy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big', time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
Has anyone here ever been to CERN?
Mrs Citizen has been pestering me to go for a visit for years and it's on the (her) bucket list. Just wondered if anyone had been?
Scientists worth their salt declare that they do not know what happened before the Big Bang. I don't think they necessarily state that is was the starting point, as such. Science means knowledge - and at the current time, we do not seem to have the evidence or knowledge to go back before the Big Bang. Have you read any scientific non-fiction books about what evidence there is about how things develop "post-Big-Bang" ?
A 'postulated theory' suggests that it's a case of not having enough evidence to state that something is definitively the case - and not necessarily the opinion of the scientific community as a whole.
As for what everything is made of, I suggest a bit of light reading. I'm no scientist (and there will be far greater minds regarding this subject in the CCMB firmament) but this simple soul is currently reading two different books about the cosmos....
Good luck with that ! To answer my own question, once we've reached down to the absolute smallest known/identified 'particle', it turns out it's 'energy'. And 'energy' can only really be identified by how everything else reacts. So in essence, everything is actually nothing. Energy is a 'concept'. Just that.
As intelligent beings, we have the choice of realising that we know very little and that it's a joy to even scratch the surface of knowledge attained courtesy of far more brilliant minds than ourselves and using incredibly sophisiticated technology (and even though we may only be able to grasp most of the concepts in part at best)
or.......
I disagree entirely.
you see this bogus argument from religious folk nowadays trying to make some equivalence between the things science can't yet explain and the existence of a magic sky man on a cloud.
Religion and science are fundamentally opposite. religion is about blindly following the "truth" that has been handed down to you, usually by your parents at a young age, and in the face of any evidence to the contrary.
science is as changeable as religion is fixed. if new evidence emerged that blew away all of the laws of physics then the scientific consensus would change. if there was evidence that the earth was created by a deity then that would be part of science too, but there isnt