Just a few weeks ago, the New York Times published an
article titled “
Space
Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun”.
As is usually the case, I find this very interesting for reasons well
beyond science. I’m not one of those
evangelicals who poke at science as such – science is my background and my
bent. I do, however, frequently see
reasons to poke at the attempts of science to reach into areas which are beyond
scientific inquiry. This article makes
me think about the topic again, and about the limitations of science.
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Alan Guth was one of the first physicists to hypothesize the existence of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly and so quickly in the instant after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Rick Friedman for The New York Times
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