"…Helped Cement…"
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe.
Mather, 60, works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Smoot, 61, works at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
Their work was based on measurements done with the help of the NASA-launched COBE satellite in 1989. They were able to observe the universe in its early stages about 380,000 years after it was born. Ripples in the light they detected also helped demonstrate how galaxies came together over time.
“The very detailed observations that the laureates have carried out from the COBE satellite have played a major role in the development of modern cosmology into a precise science,” the academy said in its citation.
Wow. So we all just sort of came together like a bomb going off. I am so happy now to know that I am just a sack of chemicals. Its great to know that none of this really matters.
fools … all a chasing after the wind. fools.
The issue I had with this is not the fact that it’s an award of great notoriety for a lame subject. The part that bothers me is where it says
“…have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe.”
I wasn’t aware that it was possible to “cement” a theory. Can you do that? Does it then become, not a theory? Awards are being given out for making theories more believable? Really?
i have a theory that these people are fools … i said it and now it’s been cemented as fact.
Hello,
I found your blog from a link on a friend’s blog. I found your post intriguing and thought of this:
‘Ex Nihilo’
I knew that it meant something about how God created the heavens and the earth literally out of nothing.
According to Wikipedia:
Ex nihilo is a Latin term meaning “out of nothing.” It is often used in conjunction with the term creation, as in creatio ex nihilo, meaning “creation out of nothing.” Due to the nature of this, the term is often used in philosophical or creationistic arguments, as a number of people say that God created the universe from nothing.
Check it out:
Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)
3By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
Amen.
Since the Big Bang Theory is this:
Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.
In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom…
I just gotta wonder if they are onto something…
God knows.
Oh, to answer Brody’s question, I think that if…IF…a scientific theory is cemented, then it becomes a law. Like the law of gravity. Or Murphy’s Law.