Why Did It Go Bang?

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Why Did It Go Bang?

By Erv Bobo
Sept. 12, 2007

Recently, the History Channel mounted an ambitious series called “The Universe”. Each week, a chapter focused on a different aspect of our scattering of stars, ranging from our own solar system to far-flung galaxies, ending with an episode entitled “Beyond The Big Bang”, which purported to tell just how these galaxies were flung.

Too bad. They should have quit while they were ahead, contenting themselves with describing the results of our space probes and the pictures from the Hubble telescope.

Science, you see, has a problem. Science thinks it knows what the universe looked like a billionth of a second after the Big Bang but has no clue as to what it looked like a billionth of a second before the bang. Heck, they can even tell us the temperature of space right after the Bang (hot) but cannot even dip their toes into the temperature prior to everything going flooey.

Let’s backtrack a bit.

I’ve mentioned before – in these very electronic pages – about the games Science plays. Their favorite is to put forth a theory – like Primordial Soup or Panspermia or the Big Bang – and then, just as we lay people start nodding our heads, smiling, nudging one another and telling ourselves we have the best scientists in the world; guys who know all the answers – they pull that comfort blanket from our hands and try to substitute something else.

So with the Big Bang.

Not so long ago, Science told us that, just prior to the bang, the universe was about the size of a football. Now, if you look at a drawing of an atom, you’ll see that it is more space than matter. Compress it so there is no space between the nucleus and the various protons and electrons and whatever and it is much smaller. (Woops! Forgot to tell you to watch out for fusion. Nasty effect, what?)

So Science ran backward the film of the flung galaxies, compressing all the galaxies, solar systems, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and such – deciding that, if ALL space was squeezed out like air from a balloon, the result would be a cosmic football. (Of course, even the best quarterback couldn’t throw it, for its mass would be infinite.)

Naturally, that theory couldn’t be allowed to stand. (“Drat! Cadbury got a Nobel Prize for his stupid football theory! Well, I’ll go him one better! He, he, he! And who can prove me wrong?”)

Now Science puts on more pressure, squeezing out more space (never mind the fusion: when Science rears its pointed head, the rules of physics don’t apply). According to the History Channel and their experts, before the Big Bang the entire universe – all of it, every last thing - was smaller than an atom. (But still of infinite mass.)

Then it went – BANG.

And all those far-flung galaxies were… well… flung far.

But what was the origin of that (for lack of a proper name) Infinite Atom? Did it always exist? If so, why did it suddenly decide to explode? What made it suddenly unstable?

Now, this next bit is hard for we must make a leap from physics to metaphysics.

If there was a time when the Infinite Atom did not exist, then there was no space and no time (in spite of the beginning of this sentence: bear with me, this is hard.) No time, no space, no light, no gravity. Nothing. No UFOs, no aliens. Nothing.

Introduce one item into this Nothing – even something as small as a real atom – and suddenly you have space and time. Introduce a second atom and you have gravity. For no matter how far apart those two atoms are, each warps space and attracts the other.

But it is really difficult to imagine Nothing for the minute we try to do it, we’ve created Something (in my case, a mind’s-eye picture of unending black – but that would be space without matter and space is Something.)

Since that’s too hard, let’s go back to the Cosmic Football. No, by golly, let’s take it all the way down to the Infinite Atom!

It’s there, in space, causing Space to exist. Because it’s there, Time exists. Because Time exists, the clock on the bomb is ticking (figuratively speaking, of course. This is twelve billion years ago and all we have is one Infinite Atom. Timex and Bulova will be along later.)

All right. Who (or What) started the clock ticking? Who (or What) lit the fuse for the Big Bang?

Never fear, Science has an answer.

“It’s…uh…well… You see, we think… Maybe it… You simply can’t sustain infinite mass for… Dammit! It just blew! Now, leave me alone!”

Fortunately, there is another answer. It’s in a Book found in almost every church, synagogue and mosque. Maybe it’s time for the History Channel to examine that approach.

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About the author: Erv Bobo is a novelist with delusions of being a humorist. His latest books THE CHEYENNE BRAND and WESTERN STAR are available at Lulu.com.

Email: Dasher1945@aol.com

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