Sunday, January 29, 2006

A World Without Stars

I just got done watching a television show that for some reason caught my attention. It was one of those discovery moments that you were forced to watch when you were a kid in a classroom setting. For some reason I could not bring myself to change the channel, call it boredom or the fact that there wasn't anything else to watch at the moment. I came away from the program feeling I just learned something. Imagine that, TV was my teacher to night and I didn't have to pay for the hourly rate. Well okay maybe except the cable bill that always finds the way to my mailbox come hell or high water.
Okay its time for me to go a little nerdy here but I thought it was interesting. Okay maybe I am the only one who found interesting.
The question was, is the universe an infinite entity or will it collapse on itself. The theory that the scientist started out with is that during the big bang elements or planets were scattered in all direction. However, at some point things have to slow down because gravity works in away that keeps everything together or pulls things backward. They wanted to see if the galaxy was slowing down and then they could pinpoint if a collapse would happen or would things keep expand at a slower rate thus the infinity part. To figure this out they had to find a certain star that they could measure the light that it gave off. However, the problem was that the star had to be a certain type, it had to be a super nova. To make this short they figured out how to film these novas and they found out that instead of the universe slowing down it was speeding up. Apparently they discovered an outside force that in my terms is sucking up the stars us included. Now of course we won't be around to see that day, but I found it interesting that the stars we see now will someday not be there. And if by some miracle if humanity hasn't blown itself up, they will have nothing but a black sky to look into. Sort of depressing if you think about it. This is supposed to be the discovery of the century. The problem is I don't believe in the big bang theory. I have a hard time thinking that everything thing just happened. You look at the body and you see that chemistry has to be a precise in order for the body to function. A big bang theory is more like closing your eyes and hoping for the best. It seems to me that when you look at things objectively one might think that things were laid out or planned. You can't build a house out of sand just because it’s there. There has to be structure, something to hold it up and withstand time and whether. I guess you can call me a creationist, but will we ever find the answer or is that life? A constant search to prove our existence or our intelligence? I am not sure.... But I do know one thing; it will be a sad day for those who live in a world without stars.
Man I am hungry!....