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Rigden: Exactly.
Anastasia: Once you said: “The Universe is so vast that it cannot fit in the human
consciousness. But there is not a single place in it where one could stick the thinnest
medical needle without getting its tip resting against something or touching something”.
Rigden: That is really so. And, answering the question, I will touch upon only a few
very important subjects of astrophysics, naturally, in a form accessible to human
thinking. However, understanding the essence of what will be said can give the
people of science a completely different view of the world structure.
I shall begin with the modern theory and assumption, ready-made for the contemporary
educated mind, of the Big Bang, which, as scientists believe, happened at the birth of the
Universe. They substantiate this popular hypothetical theory with the laws of
thermodynamics. According to the given assumption, the Universe was compressed to a
point, and after the Bang there appeared objects having a mass of around a billion tons
and of the size of a proton.
Anastasia: As they say, what they currently know is what they substantiate it with.
Scientists think they have studied well enough this branch of physics concerned with the
laws of thermal equilibrium and conversion of heat into other kinds of energy. Even the
term of thermodynamics itself, if translated from Greek, describes their debates in the
scientific community very well: “therme” means heat, warmth and “dynamikos” means
powerful. Indeed, each of the disputes there is full of heat and ardour.
Rigden: Impassionate speech is not yet learnedness; one storm is not yet a season of
rains. He who is strong in arguing enjoys the victory of one man while the knowing
person brings victory to thousands.
Anastasia: As far as I know, the ratio of “the powerful” to “the competent” in modern
science is disastrous in the sense that the former are numerous while the latter are much
fewer. A knowledgeable person is valuable to any research team. He or she is like a
proton (translated from Greek, it means “prōtos”, the first), like this elementary particle
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