Friday, May 16, 2014

Incompleteness of The Big Bang

Miracles should be managed with care and awe.
 
There is cautious celebration over the new discovery of the gravitational waves, the presumed "aftershock of the Big Bang," by BICEP2. This moment in creation's history brought the great mysteries of science into being: Time, light, mass, energy, the strong and weak forces--all did not exist, then did. Thus began the complexities of our physical world. From the laws of physics to the building blocks of rock and stone and trees to us--everything that was or is was created then. Except one thing: information. It was not until the energy cascade created DNA that nature had a storage system for information, a system that could be handed on, that could outlast the individual who was a function of it. Information--and the potential for Knowledge.
 
And then something completely new happened. People, one of the many creations of that DNA, created another miracle: They created their own information storage system completely outside the laws that created them. They created Language and Culture, two new additions to the universe of the Big Bang, two new ways of collecting Information. And Knowledge.
 
After 13 Billion years, a way appeared for creation to understand itself.

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