Wednesday, July 06, 2005

The Discovery Of Dark Energy Destroys Many Religions

Many religions preach the gospel that the universe is eternally recurring albeit over on enormous stretch of time.Just as pieces moving around according to set rules on a chessboard will eventually return to a configuration only to repeat the cycle again or become locked so the religions preach the same line only on an enlarged scale.This is an uncomplicated theory however nature is more subtle than anyone from the iron age could have imagined or anyone else for that matter.If there is even one error in a theory then the whole edifice falls down and must be rebuilt.Well here is one thing that is wrong among others with religions as preached today and that is that eternal recurrence is impossible based on observational evidence.This will be of interest for people who value reality over dogma and for the others it does'nt matter.The universe is expanding and not slowing down as everyone thought until recently and certainly no religion predicted that although one would think that during conversations with people God might have mentioned it.It would certainly help from a credibility standpoint and if the word from God was eternal recurrence then either god does'nt know what is going on or else nobody was talking to God. So with an accelerating expansion the atoms which were together at the big bang and are now at a large enough separation will never be together again . Hence no eternal recurrence and hence all religions which hold the doctrine of eternal recurrence are null and void.