On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 10:02:40 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: (first quoting Sam Ewalt)
>> The entire known universe could be just the inside of a raisin in >> a football stadium sized vat of rice pudding. And the rotation of the >> vat causes the dark force of empty space. Or maybe not. > Yeah, but that isn't a scientific idea, is it. The moon could be made > of Swiss cheese, but few of us think that that's a very progressive > hypothesis. The goal of science is to explain things with ideas that > cross-link in such a way that they are all tied together into one > body of knowledge--a worthy goal. No, it's not an idea at all--just a metaphor, a poor attempt on my part to conceptualize my profound ignorance. I'm not devout, nor am I a scientist. I was listening to a scientist from Harvard on public radio last Friday and he was relating current observations regarding the galaxies. According to "Big Bang" theory the galaxies ought to be slowing down as they spread out. Instead, it has been confirmed by repeated observations and measurement that they are speeding up. Some thing or some force yet unknown is postulated. This "force" can be calculated as a mathematical constant and may exist solely as a property of "empty" space. Details are in a book by this scientist called "The Extravagant Universe", if I remember correctly. Anyway, we do know that the process of life started somewhere, sometime. Or at least it appears that way to us now. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
