As Readers of this Blog understand, this Blogger believes that we, Mankind, are on a path, a trek, which will lead us to the confirmation of the existence of a Creator, a Divine God. And it is all because of Astrophysics and 21st Century Cosmology.
No longer, will Mankind seek answers to the Divine in miracles, or Ritual or Belief Systems, but in the Nature of the Universe; a Universe so bewildering, it could only have been created on purpose, by an intelligent being.
This Blogger first took astronomy is college; but the course was dull, for the teacher and guest astronomers believed that astronomy was a settled science. That Mankind had advanced from the Sumerians, Mayans to Galileo and Copernicus to Einstein in an ever evolving scientific logic.
However, in 2024, Mankind now knows the Universe is illogical on every level; so illogical it is divine.
This Blogger had to take a passenger train across East Germany; to get from West Berlin to Hanover. He was advised, in case he was interrogated by the East German Secret Police, to carry books against Western democracy and Western religion in his personal belongings.
He did; the only book he carried was A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, by the legendary British astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking.
He even read it. He found that Hawking’s demand that we IMAGINE a time before the BIG BANG, which had NO TIME, forced this Blogger to believe perhaps GENESIS had as much validity as the scientific approach to the creation of the Universe.
The East German Secret Police, the STASI, did pull this Blogger from the train, outside of Magdeburg, and interview him in the basement of the train station. They were very pleased that he was reading the atheistic BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME.
Mankind, in relationship to God’s universe is a Little League batter; matched up against a combination of Walter Johnson, Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan.
Against Mankind's understanding of the Cosmos, God is throwing fastballs, cut fastballs, curves, changeups, screw balls, sliders, back door sliders, knuckleballs and even spit balls.
Mankind is overmatched.
One of the stunning revelations about living in the 21stCentury is that every year, every month, every week, seemingly every day, science. Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology or a combination of all, opens a convenient pathway to the realization God does exist.
Just recently, Astrophysicists discovered a solar system, on the other side of the universe, in which all the rotations of the planets, around their sun are synchronized, like female Olympic swimmers.
That should not happen in the Universe; for that means that solar system has never been affected by black holes, wayward punk comets; not bombarded by gangsta asteroids, like the one which wiped out the dinosaurs.
That solar system is a STAR WARS toy; which has never been taken out of its box; which means God can keep whole solar systems pure when he wants.
It also seems Life popped up mere seconds after the explosive Big Bang; which created the Universe and Time. If Life was created so soon after the Big Bang, it lends credibility that the creation of Life was a Divine event, and NOT A PRODUCT OF EVOLTION.
And then there are ‘Entanglements”, Einstein’s “SPOOKY THINGS”; which have been proven. Information across the Universe travels faster than Light.
One of the explanations for that is pre-destination; which means CAPTAIN AHAB and John Calvin were the greatest cosmologists in History.
Now the following has been revealed:
“Discovery of second ultra-large structure in distant space further challenges our understanding of the universe
The discovery of a second ultra-large structure in the remote universe has further challenged some of the basic assumptions about cosmology.
The Big Ring in the Sky is 9.2 billion light-years from Earth. It has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years, and a circumference of about 4 billion light-years. If we could step outside and see it directly, the diameter of the Big Ring would need about 15 full moons to cover it.
It is the second ultra-large structure discovered by University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) Ph.D. student Alexia Lopez who, two years ago, also discovered the Giant Arc in the Sky. Remarkably, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc, which is 3.3 billion light-years across, are in the same cosmological neighborhood—they are seen at the same distance, at the same cosmic time, and are only 12 degrees apart in the sky.
Alexia said, "Neither of these two ultra-large structures is easy to explain in our current understanding of the universe. And their ultra-large sizes, distinctive shapes, and cosmological proximity must surely be telling us something important—but what exactly?
"One possibility is that the Big Ring could be related to Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs). BAOs arise from oscillations in the early universe and today should appear, statistically at least, as spherical shells in the arrangement of galaxies. However, detailed analysis of the Big Ring revealed it is not really compatible with the BAO explanation: The Big Ring is too large and is not spherical."
Other explanations might be needed, explanations that depart from what is generally considered to be the standard understanding in cosmology. One possibility might be a different theory—Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC)—which was proposed by Nobel-prize winner Sir Roger Penrose. Rings in the universe could conceivably be a signal of CCC.
Another explanation might be the effect of cosmic strings passing through. Cosmic strings are filamentary "topological defects" of great size, which could have been created in the early universe. Another Nobel-prize winner, Jim Peebles, recently hypothesized that cosmic strings could have a role in the origin of some other peculiarities in the large-scale distribution of galaxies.
Furthermore, the Big Ring challenges the Cosmological Principle, as did the Giant Arc previously. And if the Big Ring and the Giant Arc together form a still larger structure then the challenge to the Cosmological Principle becomes even more compelling.
Such large structures—and there are others found by other cosmologists—challenge our idea of what an "average" region of space looks like. They exceed the size limit of what is considered theoretically viable, and they pose potential challenges to the Cosmological Principle.
Alexia said, "The Cosmological Principle assumes that the part of the universe we can see is viewed as a 'fair sample' of what we expect the rest of the universe to be like. We expect matter to be evenly distributed everywhere in space when we view the universe on a large scale, so there should be no noticeable irregularities above a certain size.
"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger—the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and the Big Ring's circumference is comparable to the Giant Arc's length.
"From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible. We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable universe. Yet, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc are two huge structures and are even cosmological neighbors, which is extraordinarily fascinating."
The Big Ring appears as an almost perfect ring in the sky, but Alexia's further analysis reveals that it has more of a coil shape, like a cork-screw, that is aligned face-on with Earth. The Giant Arc, which is approximately 1/15th the radius of the observable universe, shows as an enormous, nearly symmetrical, crescent of galaxies in the remote universe. It is twice the size of the striking Sloan Great Wall of galaxies and clusters that is seen in the relatively nearby universe.
"The Big Ring and Giant Arc are the same distance from us, near the constellation of Boötes the Herdsman, meaning they existed at the same cosmic time when the universe was only half of its present age" commented Alexia. "They are also in the same region of sky, at only 12 degrees apart when observing the night sky.
"Identifying two extraordinary ultra-large structures in such close configuration raises the possibility that together they form an even more extraordinary cosmological system.
"This data we're looking at is so far away that it has taken half the universe's life to get to us, so from a time when the universe was about 1.8 times smaller than it is now. The Big Ring and the Giant Arc, both individually and together, gives us a big cosmological mystery as we w;ork to understand the universe and its development."……. by University of Central Lancashire”
The answer to these never ending mysteries in and of the Universe is God.
It is regrettable that Christopher Hitchens is not alive to absorb all this; it is also regrettable that Mr. Hitchens is not in Paradise; for Paradise has no place for skeptics, atheists or agnostics.
Mr Hitchens would have loved paradise.
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