Big Bang is Big Bucks

Two American scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics by increasing the odds that the Big Bang actually happened. Per Carlson, chair of the committee for physics, stated that this discovery "is one of the greatest discoveries of the century." Let me check my calendar. Yep, six years in to a 100 year time span. I am sure this will hold up.

How is this possible? Simple. The CBC reports that working with NASA's COBE satellite, they were able to "observe the universe in it's early stages about 380,000 years after it was born. Ripples in the light they detected also helped demonstrate how galaxies came together over time." The COBE satellite is an amazing invention that can see long distances and into the past and watch the creation of the galaxy.

What's more, John Mather and George Smoot will receive $1.4 million dollars for their discovery. Carlson also stated that their discovery has "not proven the big-bang theory but they have given it very strong support" and that it "increases our knowledge of our place in the universe." Carlson never stated what 'our place in the universe' is or to who he was referring. Is it scientists, the human population, physicists, or the Nobel Committee for Physics? Whoever it is, they have a better understanding of their place in the universe.

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." --Albert Einstein

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." -- Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)