Re: The myth of the beginning of time

From: Thomas Nordhaus (thnord2002_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 07/14/04


Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:59:52 +0200


 "MorituriMax" <newage@sendarico.net> schrieb:

>Van Jacques wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this Sci Am article "The Myth of the Beginning of
>> Time"
>>
>>
>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00042F0D-1A0E-1085-94F483414B7F0000
>
>I really love how they literally make the big bang into an actual explosion as
>shown on their first page... how lovely to keep the people who read it confused
>about the concept.

I read the following line (an undertitle) by German Cartoonist today
(Translation German -> English, hopefully not too clumsy):

"At that time God had quick-wittedly taken a photo of the big bang. He
was still quite impressed by it".

Thomas



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