George Smoot, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, explains that our view of the universe has become exponentially more complex in just the past decade. Smoot's work is part of a revolution that has forced cosmologists to confront a universe wholly unlike any they've ever known - one where only 4% is the kind of matter we have always assumed it to be; that is, the kind that makes up you, me, all the planets and stars in our galaxy, and in all 125 billion galaxies beyond. Let me repeat that; 4%. The other 96% is . . .?
Cosmologists refer to it as "dark" - meaning unknown for now, and possibly forever.
Here's what that means: we are not at the center of anything. We're not even made up of the same stuff as most of the rest of everything.
Lawrence Krauss, a theorist at Case Western University, put it bluntly; "If you got rid of us, and all the stars and all the galaxies and all the planets and all the aliens and everybody, then the universe would remain largely the same. We're completely irrelevant."
So, how important are you feeling right about now?
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You dispute the existence of God, but here you've offered proof that He exists! Can't you see? this is His part of the universe - the planets and galaxies and such, which He created just for us. God Bless you, keep up the good work.
Well put Powder. I fail to shee how you just proved the existence of any gods, or why they would bother to bless you if you did, but rationality is not in much evidence among the godly. -Dave
Dear anonymous . . . Poor, dear, deluded anonymous.I'm going to recommend a book to you - one that might actually give you a clue as to what life is really all about. The book is: Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. It's a very short book, so I'm sure you can read it. But please don't comment here again, until you have read it.
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