When you look from the perspective of a scientist at the universe, it looks as if it knew we were coming. There are 15 constants – the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc – that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one [...]
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The Constants of the Universe
Posted in Collins, Francis, tagged Gravitational Constant, Universe on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What the Fact of the Universe Implies
Posted in Collins, Francis, tagged Big Bang, Origins, Universe on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have this very solid conclusion that the universe had an origin, the Big Bang. Fifteen billion years ago, the universe began with an unimaginably bright flash of energy from an infinitesimally small point. That implies that before that, there was nothing. I can’t imagine how mature, in this case the universe, could have created [...]
