The Big Bang theory makes the news

According to the title linked CNN article:

By the faint cosmic glow of the oldest known light, physicists say they have found evidence that the universe grew to astounding proportions in less than the blink of an eye.

In that trillionth of a second after the big bang, the universe expanded from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space through a process known as inflation. At the same time, the seeds were planted for the formation of stars, galaxies, planets and every other object in the universe.

"It's giving us our first clues about how inflation took place," said Michael Turner, assistant director for mathematics and physical sciences at the National Science Foundation. "This is absolutely amazing."

It is amazing, and we will continue to wonder was it science or was it God or exactly how this all happened. Some of you believe in God, some of you don't, most of us have a different idea of how it all began. If you have never read this lecture transcript, by Henry F. Schaefer III and this is a topic that interests you, I recommend it. He is according to this article:

The Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize and was recently cited as the third most quoted chemist in the world. "The significance and joy in my science comes in the occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it!' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan."

As for me? I'm still looking for the answers, but I do find it reassuring that there are those with much more brillant minds than mine that disagree on this. It lets me know that it's okay to wonder...maybe someday we will have more answers...then again? Maybe we won't.

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