Yes, I am the cosmos. And so are you.
If I had to do college over again, I would have zeroed in on cosmology.
It’s the one subject apart from film and automobiles that leads me to full-geek mode; and so far I haven’t been able to cheapen cosmology through any grubby efforts to make it pay.
This week has been particularly existing in terms of the universe and how it might have come to be, how it might work, and where it may be heading.
First, did you realize gravity doesn’t exist? I didn’t, so next time I do a header off my mountain bike and wonder if I’ll be breaking all my teeth or just shattering my cheekbones, I’ll rest assured it’s simply a holographic illusion, and those aren’t real blood clots and jaw parts I’m spitting out.
Second, the Big Bang may have been a fake-out. This one I was ready for, because there have been a LOT of questions swirling around about galactic clusters and the fact it may have taken 100 to 150 billion years for these things to come together. Based on our understanding of gravity, of course…
Third, the God Particle may have been discovered. Not by that fancy-pants multi-billion-Euros facility underneath the lesser parts of France and the better parts of Switzerland, CERN, but basically in some run-down garage outside of Chicago — also known as the Fermi Lab.
Yes, those same dudes that sent over bad magnets that seriously dinged the Large Hadron Collider last year. That’s how they do things Chicago-style.
There’s also more evidence tying the single-direction flow of time to the possibility our universe may actually be inside a…
Nah. It’ll have to wait for another post.
James Hyatt 