Science and Discoveries in the 21st century
There is a new movie by Ben Stein called Expelled that talks about the debate between Intelligent Design theorists and Big Bang theorists. It is my belief that they are too busy debating to realize that both sides maybe right and here's why. In 2015 NASA hopes to launch the L.I.S.A. spaceprobe. The L.I.S.A. (which stands for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) consists of three spacecraft connected together by lasers in an isosceles triangle measuring three million miles wide and it will orbit at 2 million miles above th earth ( or 20 degrees behind earth's orbit of the sun). One of its missions will be to study the birth of the Universe to find out what caused the Big Bang. Scientists hope to see the Universe just before its creation they also hope to see a wormhole connecting our universe to it's parent universe. In Dr. Kaku's book "Hyperspace" he talks about how it is possible to artificially create the universe. In the book he say that to create a new universe a civilization would have to be at a minimum a type 3 ( or what you see on Star Wars) to create it after which the "creator" could then live in the wormhole connecting the two universes outside of spacetime and watch the new universe be created. It is my theory that with the launch of LISA there is a possibility that we could find out what caused the Big Bang, whether it was natural or artificial. Another example of this is CERN. CERN has just completed construction on a new supercolider. Physicists hope to study the Big Bang by creating mini big bangs in a lab. To a layman whose interested in science like myself these potential advances in science are very exciting. In the Star Trek Voyager String Theory series book 3 Q (john DeLancie) admits to Ensign Harry Kim and Lieutenant Paris that the big bang was artificial and it was an accident. Could this be the story in our universe? Who knows, but I know it will be interesting what the L.I.S.A. space probe finds out. Another example of "Both sides maybe right" is a story I read 2003 about an infant twin who had a limb transplant. In the Guinness World Record article the infant's twin did not survive birth and the infant herself had a deformed arm. Surgeons then removed her arm and gave her the twin's arm, after reading this I started to wonder why most people who get transplants have to take anti-rejections drugs and identical twins don't. I wondered this until I saw a news report about an artwork called "The Human Genome", as I saw it on TV I realized that it looked an awful like a computer program. It was then I began to wonder "could the answer to transplant rejection be as easy as gene resequencing thereby '"reprogramming"' the transplanted limb or organ to match the recipient". In this realization I have come to understand in all of our knowledge of the universe when it comes to knowledge yet to be gathered we still have an awful long way to go, in otherwords in the grand scheme of the universe we know nothing. Finally I leave you with this line from a Star Trek Voyager episode Death wish. In that episode Q1 (played by gerrit graham) asks Captain Janeway for asylum. during the hearing Q2 (played by John De Lancie) takes Cpatain Janeway and Lieutenant Tuvok to the Q Contintuum. Q2 then says that what the see as the Continuum was their ( Janeway's and Tuvok's) interpretation and that the human brain could not comprehend the true nature of the Continuum. Just thinking of the scientific possibilities in the next 25 to 50 has me very excited.
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