Posts Tagged ‘universe’

The big picture: Come dream with me, a dream that is coming true

Thursday, March 31st, 2022
clamour and silence

Dear young people – it is especially you I am thinking of as I allow these thoughts to unravel. You will be the architects of the future. Amazing science and technology will open doors we haven’t even come to yet. Hopefully, you will always be guided by what it means to be authentically human, which Read more

If there is faith, scientific study of the universe is prayer

Thursday, May 11th, 2017

“At the beginning of time, God spoke to us through Creation, says the Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Therefore, to study the universe with science, is an act of prayer, a way of encountering God.” However, to do so, “it is necessary to encounter God first as Father, as Abba, otherwise God cannot Read more

Particle accelerator could show universe had no start point

Friday, March 27th, 2015

Scientists believe experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland could prove that the universe had no singular starting point. According to a report in The Telegraph, the detection of miniature black holes by the LHC could show that the Big Bang did not happen. It could also prove the existence of parallel universes. If Read more

A universe from nothing?

Friday, August 16th, 2013

Most things sound convincing when Morgan Freeman says them. The host of Through the Wormhole and the voice of God himself recently told told Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show that the Higgs Boson “explains everything – creation.” “Oh oh”, replies Ferguson, “that’s not going to be popular.” The “science puts God out of a job” Read more

Top ten mysteries of the universe

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

1. What Are Fermi Bubbles? No, this is not a rare digestive disorder. The bubbles are massive, mysterious structures that emanate from the Milky Way’s center and extend roughly 20,000 light-years above and below the galactic plane. The strange phenomenon, first discovered in 2010, is made up of super-high-energy gamma-ray and X-ray emissions, invisible to the Read more