“Evidence for Universe Expansion Found
By MATT CRENSON, AP National Writer
Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second.”
I just don’t get this kind of stuff. Either I’m too stupid or else physicists think they’re a lot smarter than they really are. While it doesn’t amaze me that we can SAY anything about what transpired in the first trillionth of a second of the universe, it would amaze me if ANY of it were true or even close to it. I mean c’mon, scientists can’t agree on basic things, like what’s REALLY the healthiest diet and what REALLY causes disease. We can’t find Bin Laden but we know the universe was once the size of a marble? Maybe it just hurts my brain too much. I can’t picture a marble without picturing some space around it. So how can the marble be “the universe” and the space be something else? Asking “who made the universe?” just begs the question “who made the maker?”–and off we go. I can’t even get to the bottom of “who made the mess on the stove?”