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a particularly delicious irony, the Big Bang Theory is first
proposed by a Roman Catholic Priest, Georges Lemaître
(1927)).
in 2012
• Physics has bifurcated into Astrophysics and Quantum
Mechanics. Attempts to reunite them invoke multidimensional
acrobatics like String Theory and Loop Quantum
Gravity. We still wait to see if these two branches can actually
be reunified by a provable esoteric uber-theory.
• The Universe is expanding from a Big Bang creation
event 13.75 billion years ago. We are shuffling around the
cooling detritus of this creation.
• Quantum Mechanics supplies us with a new physics that
departs from classical physics at the subatomic level. It
describes the interactions of energy and matter in counterintuitive
ways. The two major interpretations of QM
are equally absurd (yet strangely beautiful) — Copenhagen
and Many Worlds Theory. Whichever, we are superimposed.
• Light and other particles have a dual particle/wave nature.
• Most of the Universe is now composed of unknown stuff:
Dark energy and Dark Matter, leaving just 4 percent
over as stuff we have the vaguest clue about or tangible
theories for.
• The Universe is a pretty scary place, filled with monsters
and titans: Black Holes, Quasars, Gamma-Ray Bursters.
our maps again carry an inscription around the edges:
There be dragons.
Fundamentally, we have gone from thinking we know most of
the answers and riddles, to knowing we don't know very many
at all. Hang onto your bat-belts, junior bat-rangers, I predict
this century will be even more exciting.
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