THE BIG BOUNCE. THE BIG BANG. THE BIG BANG CREATED ITS MIRROR IMAGE BIG BOUNCE. A SINGULAR BIG BANG FOLLOWED BY A SINGULAR BIG BOUNCE. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER WITHIN THE UNIVERSE OR ITS BOUNCE. Everything in the Universe is energy. Time is...
The universe is13.8 billion years old. The farthest we can see currently is around 47.7 billion light-years. We can see only 5% of the universe, 95 % is invisible to us. We can’t see, detect, or comprehend the remaining 95%. (This is the academic best guess)....
An endless past has no beginning. Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel is a thought experiment that illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. A fully occupied hotel with endless rooms may still accommodate additional guests infinitely. This...
An illustration of an asteroid slamming into Earth. A space rock this size would leave an enormous crater. (Image credit: SCIEPRO Via Getty Images). Asteroids that can hit the Earth are primarily in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. When an asteroid hits...
Darwin made three critical mistakes. (1) Darwin dismissed mass extinctions as idiomatic expressions of a poor geologic record. (2) Darwin assumed that the diversity of a species increases exponentially over time, just like the individual species does. (3) Darwin...
Darwin’s mechanism of variation and selection is driven by microevolution, minor changes within existing species. The development of life was caused by an undirected process based on random genetic mistakes. Darwin thought that living cells were blobs of...
