The Laws of
Physics are not worth the paper they're written on.
magnificat
Once upon a time people thought the
earth was flat. And it got carried about the place on the back of a really quite large
turtle. So important was the earth that a great big hot bright thing circled round it
every day. And at night there was another big shiny thing, though not nearly as bright,
and not hot at all. Plus there were lots of very bright dots, also doing the nightly
rounds.
Ridiculous!!
I hear you say. People haven't thought that for thousands of years. Millennia, in fact.
Well, maybe, and there again maybe not.
Pin them back and listen to this one...

Since the 1960's, when modern life
began, we have been taken in by a giant con, no less silly than the above myth now
appears. We have been invited by educated, erudite men to accept that not only the earth,
not only the sun - and the moon - but all the effing stars as well, were once all
bundled together in a point so tiny that it had no size at all!
An
orange? you ask. No - don't be silly - much smaller than that. A horse chestnut?
No - that's still too big. (But it does at least admit its nuttiness.) No - our
Universe, we have been repeatedly told, had ZERO size, and thus INFINITE density.
So the darn lil thing exploded. Well, wouldn't you, in that situation?
And dudes - you, me, Great Granny and her favourite rocking chair, all sprang from
this so-called Big Bang.
Puhleeze! as they say in the USA.
The only thing Big about this Bang is the amount of suckers who fell for it. But not
magnificat. Oh no! We knew all along that this would eventually be exposed for the
fol-de-rol that it is. And we have survived to see its downfall. Allegedly.
Cop this...

Universal truth of
life without beginning or end.
Tim Radford hears 'immortal' theory
which superseded Big Bang claim
Guardian February 1999

The History of time is no longer brief.
The universe never actually began: it bubbled off some other, pre-existing universe. And
it will not come to an end: other parts of the universe are being created now.
"If life in our part of the universe were to disappear, it will appear again
someplace else," the cosmological theorist Andrei Linde told the American Association
for the Advancement of Science meeting in Anaheim, California. "So the universe as a
whole becomes immortal."
Professor Linde, The Russian physicist based at Stanford University, is one of the
architects of the new universe theories. He has discarded the Big Bang version made famous
(and understandable) by the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
Linde does not believe that everything
began 15 billion years ago but sees the universe in which human life developed as just one
of many inflating balls of space time that in turn produce new balls, and so on for ever.
"The original idea was that all the universe appeared as an explosion of very hot
matter, a huge ball of fire. Then we understood that this was not big enough, not fast
enough, not explosive enough," he said.
The original hypothesis did not explain why the universe looked much the same in all
directions, or why there were so many things in it.
In the inflation scenario, an extremely small fragment of space expanded to an area far
far larger than the visible universe in an unimaginable fraction of a second, and
everything in that space - atoms, stars and light - condensed out of the colossal energy
released by the inflation
"Right now there are some other
parts of the universe where newer and newer parts are being produced: they are inflating
and expanding exponentially and then they come to a stage similar, or maybe dissimilar, to
ours," he said.
The universe contained 100 billion galaxies each with 100 billion stars. "If you
start with a typical Big Bang universe with a typical size with a typical density
initially and then you count how many particles the universe would contain, the answer
would be one particle, or maybe 10 particles, but not the amount of particles necessary to
make one journalist," he said. "So the fact that you are here is proof something
was wrong with the Big Bang theory."

So there you have
it. Instead of Bangs we got Balls. Sounds better somehow, now don't it?
Sicut erit in
principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecola saecolorum.
As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
