http://cecelia.physics.indiana.edu/life/redshift.html

"Big bang cosmology is both a profoundly beautiful, and disturbing, model for our universe, its shape and its destiny. It contains many surprises which have yet to be completely worked-out. But one feature of the evolving universe seems absolutly clear, the big bang was not some grand fireworks display, but an event of a completely different order. It resembled more an expanding soap bubble film upon which galactic dust motes are carried along for the ride. This film represents the totality of all the space and matter in our universe, and it expands into a mysterious primordial void which is itself empty of space, dimension, time or mat...

http://cecelia.physics.indiana.edu/life/redshift.html

"Big bang cosmology is both a profoundly beautiful, and disturbing, model for our universe, its shape and its destiny. It contains many surprises which have yet to be completely worked-out. But one feature of the evolving universe seems absolutly clear, the big bang was not some grand fireworks display, but an event of a completely different order. It resembled more an expanding soap bubble film upon which galactic dust motes are carried along for the ride. This film represents the totality of all the space and matter in our universe, and it expands into a mysterious primordial void which is itself empty of space, dimension, time or matter.

In the future it is hoped that a death knell will finally have sounded for the last vestage of the older thinking. With the Doppler interpretation of the cosmological redshift at last reconsidered, and rejected, we will finally be able to embrace the essential beauty and mystery of cosmic expansion as it was originally envisioned by its discoverers."

Hi. I went to a day of astrophysics lectures a while back and the thing that I remember most is the one on rethinking or modifying earlier theories about expansion, redshift and doppler effect.. The bit I pasted above is the end of a physics based paper, There is some fascinating (but hard to clip) stuff available on the web about how especially over the past couple of decades new data has suggested a need to reconsider earlier stuff. I still think the clip itself is very good and that data interpreted through earlier theory is still relevant. (It's interesting when looking at some of the newer ideas about the cosmos scientists disagree with each other and alternative theories abound: this, ...

Hi. I went to a day of astrophysics lectures a while back and the thing that I remember most is the one on rethinking or modifying earlier theories about expansion, redshift and doppler effect.. The bit I pasted above is the end of a physics based paper, There is some fascinating (but hard to clip) stuff available on the web about how especially over the past couple of decades new data has suggested a need to reconsider earlier stuff. I still think the clip itself is very good and that data interpreted through earlier theory is still relevant. (It's interesting when looking at some of the newer ideas about the cosmos scientists disagree with each other and alternative theories abound: this, I suppose, is no more than an example of the scientific enterprise throughout history. Certainly, one of the core values of any science worthy of the name is that it never assumes to know all of the answers, to do so would be to contradict the very basis of scientific methodology).

Well, Well Well - Now THIS clip can be pondered,
(and inevitably IS pondered) eternally (!!!) by the

UNIVERSAL MIND

which is all of us ponderers - newly "conglomerated"
via the evolved Miracle of CyberSpacial INTERNET

(via "CLIPMARKS" oh best beloved)

Yes - I intend to return to this to study, Meditate
and Ponder More - it is a healthy sort of thinking task,
good stuff, man Good Stuff indeed !!

Ta, like - - Begin With - - I noticed on Abailarts first comment, something that I immediatly Liked and related to - about Big Bang Theaory being "Profoundly
Beautiful AND(!) Disturbing" Yes - I feel and think
the same way as fa...

Well, Well Well - Now THIS clip can be pondered,
(and inevitably IS pondered) eternally (!!!) by the

UNIVERSAL MIND

which is all of us ponderers - newly "conglomerated"
via the evolved Miracle of CyberSpacial INTERNET

(via "CLIPMARKS" oh best beloved)

Yes - I intend to return to this to study, Meditate
and Ponder More - it is a healthy sort of thinking task,
good stuff, man Good Stuff indeed !!

Ta, like - - Begin With - - I noticed on Abailarts first comment, something that I immediatly Liked and related to - about Big Bang Theaory being "Profoundly
Beautiful AND(!) Disturbing" Yes - I feel and think
the same way as far as THAT Goes - ok gotta re-read
Mr. Abailarts comment - I intuiteivley sensed that
he implies strongly that we agree about something
very Basic (as expressed in cedrtain more recent
scientific American articles) that there are now a growing number of scientific minds who do NOT
perceive the "big bang" as the absalute beginning of
Existance - But an intense indescribabal CHANGE -
the beginning of the Universe "ERA" that WE are familiar with - so beautiful, so profound, yes
and as disturbing as the spookiest "star-trekian"
thriller - thank you Chestnut, for stimulating our
intellects with some tasty food for thought -
I will remember to come back to this one - and study the above comments further - recommended Listening:
"across the universe" by John Lennon