Three Cosmic Koans

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When a film of a kaon (what a neat name for a weird subatomic particle) is run backwards, the kaon ends up at a different place from where it started. No only that,

but becomes a different particle. It's as if my mother had filmed my life and when the film is run backwards I would become Toombaru.

 

But if these particles sometimes wouldn't act like that, there would not be any matter in the universe because when particles were born after the Big Bang each particle

had its anti-particle and they would cancel out and vanish, it was only because a very small percentage switch its nature that enough matter was left over to start the universe.

 

The Good News

 

The End is at Hand. Prepare yourselves Cosmic Nirvana will happen in another

60 billion years. Astronomers had found out that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate of expansion. In another 60 billion years the rate of expansion would become infinite and atoms would be rip apart.

 

Finally Scientists admit Nothing is the mother of all things' and the Universe equal nothing. Nothing is happening.

 

As Steve Hawking puts it: 'The total energy of the universe equals zero ... one can show that the negative energy of the universe exactly cancels the positive energy,

the total energy of the universe is zero."

 

Alan Guth, an MIT physicist tell us that absolute nothingness doesn't equal empty space because according with the theory of relativity space is already stuff. He concludes, " It is said there is no such thing as a free lunch, but the universe is the ultimate free lunch." According to him a particle can pop up into existence, expand at a speed faster than light and create a universe.

 

Theoretical astrophysicist Angela Olinto, "When we say the universe came out of nothing, what we mean is that nothing-we call it the vacuum, something that has no particles, no net energy- might have some properties that cause things to be created.

 

As read and understood by Pete.