Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

7 - "IT"
moves away from the others at a proportional speed, because every dot
is pulled faster and further from the others the larger the balloon gets.
Obviously one can work out when all the dots were together at one
center from the speed given by the distances of the dots from one
another and from the directions in which they move.
The age of the universe has been calculated by the red shift method,
giving an age of six to ten billion years. Just as everyone had agreed to
this estimate, George Abell, Head of the Astronomical Department of
the University of California, spoke up in November, 1971 and said:
"You're wrong, gentlemen. After thirteen years of observing eight
widely separated galaxies I can prove that the universe is twice as old
as was previously thought."
Big bang!
The universe is no lady who can be insulted by making her older than
she is. And it makes no difference to me whether six, ten or twenty
billion years have passed since the original big bang. Its age says
nothing about the origin of the first life. But no matter when the
fireworks took place, something must have been present before them.
The explosion of the primordial atom may explain the origin of the
galaxies with billions and billions of stars. Scientists of all disciplines
and even philosophers may penetrate ever deeper into the secret of the
atom as the beginning of all things. Atheists may deny with ever
increasing vehemence the existence of a power whom for want of a
better word we call "God." In the beginning there was a creation.
If the matter composing all the stars comes from the primordial atom,
it is only logical that the stars in all the galaxies are made of the same
stuff, i.e. consist of the same elements. Either the big bang theory can
be proved by the red shift, in which case all matter was originally
compressed into one lump, or there was no big bang and then nothing
can be deduced from the red shift or the Doppler effect.