Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique...If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, ...
Even quasars with very large black holes formed early on: well before the Universe was even one billion years old.It’s the old chicken-and-egg problem made new: if there’s a maximum rate at which black holes can grow, and the Universe wasn’t born with them, how did we make the...
What was it like when the first stars began to shine? What was it like when no stars yet existed? What was it like when the first atoms formed? What was it like when the first elements formed? What was it like when the last antimatter disappeared? What was it like when proton...
This beginning,In fact, taking the end of mankind as the boundary. Before the end of mankind,Is known.After the end of mankind, Is unknown.Therefore, the Wenmang Action of the Wenmang belongs to the Unknown★Unknownwisdom★Unknowncompetence★Unknownthings★Mang-know★Mang-wisdom★Mang-competence...
According to current theories, shortly after the universe was born, it went through a stage when matter existed in a sort of extremely hot, dense soup called quark gluon plasma, or QGP, composed of the building blocks of matter. When the universe cooled, these quarks became trapped in compo...
"Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this “blunder,” rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even
1. The Mechanical Clock C Before this invention, time was inseparable from events, the main one being the Sun crossing the sky. Only local time existed, no universal river of time. If you agreed to meet someone at sunset, you had to say where, because the Sun is always setting somewhe...
That long, desultory, but bitter struggle created national feeling in their respective peoples, as their differences and special unifying qualities began to be distinctly felt and defined among the populace at large. France was the main battleground of this war. Thus the French peoples began to ...
It is peculiar that the name of something that existed from the Beginning (namely heaven) is now given to the firmament created on Day 2. Remember that action defines the thing; the firmament of Day 2 executes the same defining action as the heaven of Day 1. Or else it would have a ...
Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament sch...