The Big Bang vs Creation Archive
or My Singapore’s speech “For a new vision of the universe and of the meaning of life.” Orazio Guglielmini Part two The history of the universe has many endings – big crunch, big rip, big freeze, big bounce, etc., – but not a single beginning. No one dares to go beyond Max Planck’s
Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of papier mâché * or My Singapore’s speech “For a new vision of the universe and of the meaning of life.” Orazio Guglielmini Good morning! I suppose you all know my name, the International Meetings published it in a leaflet. However, my name is Francis Sgambelluri, a
We do not live in the best of possible worlds, as the philosopher Leibniz liked to think, nor do we live in a paradisiacal world and nowadays we know this only too well, thanks to science. We don’t even live in an open space, as experts, cosmologists, physicists, etc. would have us believe, but
Georges Charpak and Roland Omnès, in their interesting essay, “Be wise, become prophets,” write: “The fundamental laws of the universe are not many. They speak of a container and of a content. One is the container of absolute space-time, governed by the law of relativity; the other is the total content of matter in all
So we start with a question: “How does the Universe look today? Now, to answer this question, we must start with things that are near to us, and gradually expand our look to the vast and immense spaces of the Universe. To begin with, let’s try if we can see, almost feel, the curvature of
The Big Bang The beginning: nothing, not a noise, not a stirring, not a soul, the universe begins in absolute darkness and silence. I First image: timeless and lifeless, the space does not exist yet, all is dense, tense, then, suddenly, bamm!, the big bang; II Second image: a billionth of a billionth of a