Is God the ‘dark matter’ for which scientists are searching?
Anyone who writes a book titled The Little Book of Aliens is, like the Dead Salesman, a man to whom attention must be paid. Adam Frank, who wrote that book, and one Marcelo Gleiser (whose own book is The Dawn of a Mindful Universe) contend “The story of our universe may be starting to unravel.” Their Sunday New York Times piece is a must read, and not just for Men In Black. (If you can surmount the NY Times pay wall.)
The nut paragraph is this:
Physicists and astronomers are starting to get the sense that something may be really wrong. … We might have to change the way we think about some of the most basic features of our universe — a conceptual revolution that would have implications far beyond the world of science.
Blaska's world resembles Mystery Science Theater!
Changing the way we think requires admitting we were wrong, a task more difficult than stopping Braelon Allen in the open field. We mere mortals use only 3 percent of our brain (according to Albert Brooks in Defending Your Life). Now we are about to have the carbon deposits blown out of what remains of our minds. We ruminated in Particle #1 on its implication for the after-life, if be there such. Frank & Gleiser report that:
The stuff that makes up people and planets and everything else we can see constitutes only about 4 percent of the universe. The rest is invisible stuff called dark matter and dark energy.
KA-BOOM! The scientists claim the invisible stuff breaks out to 27% and 68%, respectively. How do they know THAT? (!!!) Seems like scientists keep finding the ever larger and the impossible-to-conceive tinier. Could what they’re looking for be … GOD his own self? (!!!)
In other words, ‘Everything’
“Cosmology forces scientists to tackle questions about the very environment in which science operates: the nature of time, the nature of space, the nature of laws like regularity, the role of the observers doing the observations.” KA-BOOM!
What IS time? Does it stop in Black Holes! KA-BOOM! Do we come out the other end? Blown away that not only are there billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy but that there are billions of galaxies. Some cosmologists now think ours is just one universe in an infinite number of universes. KA-BOOM!
The Higgs Boson was called The God Particle. Gives everything its mass. (We’ve been reading about it but still don’t understand it.) If the Higgs boson is created, something called the Higgs singlet may also appear, whatever that is. This Higgs singlet thing may be able to jump through space and time, travel through a hidden dimension, and then re-enter our dimension forwards or backwards in time, some physicists believe. As for the Higgs boson itself, the damn thing, Stephen Hawking warned, could eventually destroy the universe! DOUBLE KA-BOOM!
And you're worried about Global Climate Change!
The two scientists seem to be saying every one of us creates our own universe. “Every act of observation influences the future and even the past history of the universe. … a participatory universe in which every act of observation was in some sense a new act of creation.”
Certainly, my Himalyan kitty cat, Enzo the Baker, sees the world in a different way than that Monarch butterfly hovering over the Experimental Work Farm zinnias. But so, too, does Marjorie Taylor Greene see the world different from Comrade John Nichols.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Mark Twain said he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. We think that’s the way it is after death. Where, after all, does the light go when you turn it off? Isn’t it just … gone? OR …
8 responses to “Trust science to blow yer mind! Particle #2”
that gummy must have kicked in.
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Alternative theory is this whole thing is a simulation. Weird science may just be a simulation engineer saying “Hey I’m gonna try somethin’; hold my beer”.
“And you’re worried about Global Climate Change!”
HeyZeus Alou Blaska, please tell us THAT science is still SETTLED; it’s despicable Chicken Little Lefty‘s veritable raison d’être.
Absent that, they’ll be forced to acknowledge that they’re enabling the child slave labor mining of cobalt, lithium, et al, for Wind Power, Solar Power, and the boop-beep-beep devices they use to read auto-delivered slobbering Lefty pap to confirm their biases, and retrieve critically important LIKES from similarly hypocritical despicable Lefties.
Not a world in which The Gotch wants to live; you…?
The Gotch
Anyone notice that all those grand scientific (or science-fictiony) terms like Dark Matter, Black Holes, God Particles, etc. have a distinctly theological/metaphysical sound (and meaning)? Anyone who thinks Science has all the answers–or even the best answers–should be prepared to eventually fall off a cliff. The only question that matters is “Why is there something instead of nothing.” And Science is not equipped to provide an answer. A great poet (and atheist) once called religion “that vast moth-eaten musical brocade created to pretend we never die.” But even he conceded that it came closer than anything else to answering the questions that give life meaning.
now where did I put those lemon gummies?
Just remember, all science is settled until it isn’t. Global cooling then warming and now climate change. Cholesterol in food is bad for you and now trans fat is bad for you. What science told us 50 years ago is the opposite of what we are told today and will probably be wrong in the next 50 years. Fortunately I will be long gone.