Don't Tease Me Bro

I woke up early this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, so I decided to do a little cable surfing. I tuned into Fox News, but my stomach was already queasy and I just didn't think I could handle looking at a rebroadcast of Greta Van Susteren, especially so early in the morning. Is she sure she got plastic surgery?
Anyway, as I was flipping through the channels, I came across something about parallel universes. I thought I was on the Sci-Fi channel, but nope, this was a real, scientific documentary on some Discovery type channel. Click on the title of this blog for a link to a transcript of the program, because you're really not going to believe this actually aired. Or, maybe you're one of those scientific intellectuals and you will believe.
You see, for years, I've been in what the scientific intelligentsia considers the ignorant minority. I believe in Creation. I believe in the Genesis account, in fact. Try telling many people that and they look at you as if you believe the world is flat. No enlightened twenty-first century human could possibly reject evolution...could they? What blind credulity!
Well, it hasn't bothered me and still doesn't. But, after watching this program, I sure am glad I'm unenlightened. The basic premise of the show has to do with how scientists are trying to understand the Big Bang theory...how the universe came into existence.
You see their problem can be illustrated like this. If I come upon a beautiful home and, being ignorant, I just accept the fact that the home had a designer and builder, I don't have to worry my pretty little head about how the house got there. I might appreciate the architecture and the beauty. I might even wonder about why the builder built it, but I don't give a moment's thought to how it arrived on the scene.
But, if I'm super-intelligent and I come upon the same house, and I don't believe there was an intelligent designer and builder, then my brain has to go into overdrive trying to figure out what laws of physics played into the house's existence. That's what many scientists are trying to do.
You see, often evolution and Big Bang and things of that nature are mentioned so casually and matter of factly, that one assumes they are matters of fact. But to the big brains, it's more than that. They want to figure out what caused the universe to appear. Now this show threw out all kinds of terms, with which little ignorant me is uninformed...such things as membranes, and leaking gravity, and eleventh dimensions.
Bottom line is, that these scientists have come up with the idea that there are many universes which we can't see, coexisting with ours. Here is an actual comment made by the narrator, a woman by the appropriate name of Dilly Barlow:

The only explanation which anyone could come up with is that the particles don't just exist in our Universe. They flit into existence in other universes, too and there are an infinite number of these parallel universes, all of them slightly different. In effect, there's a parallel universe in which Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo. In another the British Empire held on to its American colony. In one you were never born.

Now, keep in mind that the scientists who suggest such possibilities are the same ones who scoff at the idea of a single universe with a single first human by the name of Adam. In fact, many will tell you that Adam and Eve are mythical creatures. And yet, it appears the real brains among such scoffers really believe in something much more incredible.

Here's another comment, made by Michael Duff (a physicist and string theorist ): "The other universes are parallel to ours and may be quite close to ours, but of which we'd never be aware. They may be completely different with completely different laws of nature operating."


Theoretical Physicist, Michio Kaku, who looked kinda like a cross between comedian David Steinberg and actor Pat Morita said: "Some of these universes may look just like ours, except perhaps you're not there."

These brilliant men really believe this stuff. I thought they were joking. But, no, they're dead serious. So serious that this whole parallel universe thing helped them to come up with the answer as to what caused the Big Bang. Here's the brilliant, and yet, so simple answer, according to Burt Ovrut, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania : "...and as we went along, at least I learned more and more about how it might be possible to have these brane collisions produce all of the effects of the early Universe and in particular it's just easy to do with my hands, when they collide you might have a Big Bang."
Wow, they did it. They eloquently explained the origin of the universe without the need for a creator. Of course, there's still that little matter of where those colliding universes came from. But, they're probably leaving that up to the geniuses in one of those other worlds to worry about.

These scientist guys are smart. So smart that they believe you could create your own universe at home. In the conclusion of the show, Alan Guth, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had this to say: "I in fact have worked with several other people for some period of time on the question of whether or not it's in principle possible to create a new universe in the laboratory. Whether or not it really works we don't know for sure. It looks like it probably would work. It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement. It would not displace the universe around it even though it would grow tremendously. It would actually create its own space as it grows and in fact in a very short fraction of a second it would splice itself off completely from our Universe and evolve as an isolated closed universe growing to cosmic proportions without displacing any of the territory that we currently lay claim to."

Now, when you think about it, that really does make a lot more sense than creation. The only thing I wonder, if there are such smart scientists out there, couldn't someone come up with a viable plastic surgery for Greta Van Susteren?