evolution of the universe
I don’t believe that the universe exists. I believe that the only thing that exists is God and he is more than the universe. The universe is an extension of God into space and time. That’s the premise I start from in my work, that so-called “reality” is a mass delusion that we’ve all been required to believe for reasons totally obscure.
Philip K. Dick
You see, to be quite frank, Kevin, the fabric of the universe is far from perfect. It was a bit of botched job, you see. We only had seven days to make it. And that’s where this comes in. This is the only map of all the holes. Well, why repair them? Why not use them to get stinking rich?
Randall, Time Bandits
He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
Ephesians 4:10 NIV
The two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
- World Report 2024: Serbia/Kosovo (hrw.org)
Independent journalists continued to be subjected to threats and intimidation in 2023. War crimes prosecutions remained slow, inefficient, and marred by delays. Attacks and threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and organizations continued. Serbia and Kosovo signed a joint declaration on missing persons in May as part of an EU-brokered normalization process, but relations deteriorated after clashes in northern Kosovo later that month linked to a contested election.
- Scale of the Universe (scaleofuniverse.com)
Scale of the Universe is a visual tool for getting a sense of the scale of various objects in the universe. It has a wide collection of objects ranging from the smallest subatomic particles to the largest galaxies. Since it’s initial version in 2010 as an Adobe Flash app, it has since been updated with new discoveries and modern code. Today, schools around the world use Scale of the Universe as a learning tool to show just how large our world truly is.
- a moment later the universe destroyed
- each point radiates the state of the universe
- the universe was tightly wound
- Big Bang
- cosmology
- galaxy
- galaxy filament
- observable universe
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
Terry Pratchett, Equal RitesA good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
Albert EinsteinTwo possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume, On Suicide- “We draw courage from those who bent the moral arc of the universe.”
To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.
Leonard BernsteinScience cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max PlanckThe basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick, How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William S. Burroughs- Timeline of the far future (Wikipedia)
- Boltzmann brain
- …in a Boltzmann-dominated universe, most Boltzmann brains have “abnormal” experiences, but most observers with only “normal” experiences are Boltzmann brains, due to the overwhelming vastness of the population of Boltzmann brains in such a universe.
- physics
- March 19 – An Energy release of a Gamma-ray burst called the GRB 080319B is the brightest event ever recorded in the Universe.
He felt there was a central processing core of life that went on and on. That was his conclusion. We talked of it many times together . . . Call it religion or what you like, Mr. Edison believed that the universe was alive and that it was responsive to man’s deep necessity. It was an intelligent and hopeful religion if there ever was one. Mr. Edison went away expecting light, not darkness.
Henry Ford on Thomas Edison
- Universe (Wikipedia)
The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures they form, from sub-atomic particles to entire galactic filaments. Since the early 20th century, the field of cosmology establishes that space and time emerged together at the Big Bang 13.787±0.020 billion years ago and that the universe has been expanding since then. The portion of the universe that can be seen by humans is approximately 93 billion light-years in diameter at present, but the total size of the universe is not known.
