Astronomers photograph the fingerprint of God

By Marshall Connolly, Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
3/21/2013
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Map reveals much about the early universe.

The European team behind the Planck Cosmology Probe, has released the first all-sky map of the universe's cosmic microwave background radiation. The picture, which is being called a "baby picture" of the universe, along with its attendant data, is causing scientists to slightly revise their understandings of the universe.

Amazingly, if the image above were any different, we wouldn't be here to see it.

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The map reveals the afterglow from the big bang, and reveals the energy is not evenly distributed, but rather clumpy. Scientists say the map shows the distribution of matter and energy in the universe when it was just 370,000 years old, which is amazingly young for a universe that is almost 14 billion years old.

Previous maps of the cosmic background radiation have been produced starting in the 1990's. The new map is edited to remove pollution from close, or otherwise bright objects, providing a clean map of the background radiation.

Early maps revealed the universe was comprised of 4.5 percent ordinary matter, the stuff we, and all we can see is made of, 22.7 percent dark matter, material we cannot see but can observe its effects, and 72.8 percent dark energy. Dark energy remains a mystery. Astronomers know what it does, but not what it is.

It is understood that matter and energy are interchangeable.

The new map, which is much more precise, has scientists fine-tuning their calculations. The universe, according to scientists, is now comprised of 4.9 percent ordinary matter, 26.8 percent dark matter and 68.3 percent dark energy which remains mysterious.

In light of the new data, scientists have now fine-tuned their understanding of the age of the universe to about 13.82 billion years.

There is nothing in the data that substantially revises current understandings, however models can now be tweaked to provide even more accurate understandings.

The data explains why the universe takes the form and structure that it does now. The distribution of galaxies, the clumping of matter, and the appearance of everything is well explained by the data.

Although few who are not physicists or astronomers might not appreciate the subtle understandings of these findings this much will suffice for understanding: the map is nothing less than a picture of the fingerprint of God.

The image reveals why the universe is why it is and why it can sustain life. Amazingly, if the image above were any different, we wouldn't be here to see it.

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wavettore
2 months ago
Erroneously, traditional science theorizes that all energy existing in the Universe converged in One Point (with its own Space) and that from this Single Point, about 14 billion years ago, the whole Universe was created.

Nevertheless, this theory is without foundations and destined to remain inconclusive.
Its contradictions originate from Einstein's faulty conclusions and from the reverence shown by modern scientists who are too afraid to take a new stand that may not be "aligned" with the late scientist.

Einstein believed that the Universe was like one closed Space and that one fixed number of atoms had always existed hence he did not believe that new atoms are constantly formed from waves. The Jewish scientist also believed the Space to be independent from the concept of Time. In this regard, his confusion may have originated from that word “Makom” which is used in the Bible to define without distinction God and also Space.

Instead, any space (even the hypothetical original Point of energy) is always divisible. Each Space could be constantly split by one Movement that occurs at one Time.

There are no Time and Movement if there is no Space.
There are no Movement and Space without Time.
There are no Space and Time without Movement.
But if one of the three exists also the other two exist.

If the Creation began by One Point existing in one Space prior to the Big Bang that same Point could not be the beginning of Time and Creator of All things.
One Space before the Big Bang necessarily implies also the presence of a Time pre-existing that same event.

Furthermore, one indivisible Point could not exist anyhow.
In fact, the smallest Space could only be a sphere and even if the original Point of Energy (prior to the Big Bang) was infinitely small it could not have been a sphere. The sphere has a perimeter at the diameter but also smaller perimeters as we move upward or downward from the larger diameter. The concept of “infinitely small” precludes the possibility of smaller perimeters. The unimaginable Point, infinitely small (smaller than a sphere) and indivisible, if exploded would have spread its energy at once. The lack of Space in the indivisible Point infinitely small eliminates the possibility of Time and Movement for the Creation of the Universe.
While instead the Universe is created in Time.

Thus, the Universe did not begin from One Space or from an indivisible Point (which does not exist).

It is difficult for us to imagine the Creation also because God, as the First Source, caused the energy to expand but was never moved by any other preceding cause.
The concept of causality existing in our World does not apply to God and Its Creation.
In our World, life is a constant chain reaction.
Everything we experience is the effect of a previous cause and also the cause for a new effect.
In fact, we have no knowledge of any source that is now moving and that was not previously moved by another source.

But how can any one "First Existence" evolve from nothing?
Any existence (that we know of) lives always restricted within the three concepts Time, Space and Movement.
As, for example, at any moment in Time you occupy one Space during your life which is Movement.
The three concepts always exist together, or else is the lack of existence in our dimension.

Time, Space and Movement started simultaneously when God, from a dimension of Stability, caused one Movement (Quantum mechanics) which symmetrically fragments and recombines all energy to form in Time one expanding Space, the Universe.

Since the event of the Big Bang, the Universe is like One Mirror split into many small mirrors which are constantly joining and separating through this same Movement.

Like in a big puzzle, every edge of each small mirror is symmetrically opposite and complementary to the mirror standing next on its side. Two contiguous small mirrors are attracted by this natural Movement and together they generate a new and third form of the same energy.
This is how the Universe continues in new forms to always expand.

God's Idea fragmented Its energy, since the event we call Big Bang, to spread It in one expanding Universe (dimension with Time, Space and Movement) that exists to fill the infinity of the Void (dimension without Time, Space and Movement).

It is an inconceivable Idea for us which we live limited by those 3 concepts.

Quantum mechanics is God's instrument that constantly re-unites and re-separates all energy in order to Always create new forms.
The concept "Always", so unreachable for us, is the endless bridge between one limited dimension (the Universe) and One Infinite (the Void).

What is beyond the Universe and beyond Time?
If it is true that we could count Time backwards 13 billion years or even 14 billion, why not also 15 billion?

Before 14 billion years ago (and before the Space of the Universe) Time did not exist.
What then?
Absolute Stability, another unreachable concept.

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