Thursday, July 26, 2007

Our Self Importance

Recently, Scientists are coming to the conclusion that they alone are lucky enough to know the universe. Those that came before us were too primative and we may not be able to see the wonderous universe for what it is, those after us, apparently, will never know.

Obviously the Big Bang Paradigm is in trouble if they can predict its own defunctness.

The authors go on to ponder what this means in terms of the anthropic principle: the idea that we exist in a universe that's got conditions favorable to life largely because anything else would preclude any life arising that could ponder the universe. They suggest that there's another layer of complexity on top of that, namely that we only recognize that there is an anthropic principle because we came along at the right time. Too much earlier, and we wouldn't be able to detect that the universe is in a new inflationary era, which tells us that it's dominated by dark energy. Too much later, and we wouldn't be able to know that there's a universe at all. As the authors put it, "we live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe: the time at which we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time in the evolution of the universe!"

How faith based has cosmology become that no matter what evidence, what science and what questions are brought out against it, Cosmologists only see the same thing, invisible matter and forces where only electromagnetism is required.

The course, is hammered out ahead, unchanging and completely erroneous.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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Are you still on MSN?
Add me when you're bored.

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~xo