Comments on: Two items on the “bucket list” nearing check-off. https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/09/two-items-on-the-bucket-list-nearing-check-off/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/09/two-items-on-the-bucket-list-nearing-check-off/#comment-28808 bowser Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:44:19 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=41235#comment-28808 You are absolutely correct. What was there at the beginning, if anything, is a mighty curious proposition. From the viewpoint of one person on Earth, there is so much energy/mass in the Universe it's staggering, and the origin or beginning or start would have to be one heckuva an event. And some say it could have come from nothing, and there's a parallel but opposite universe next to us. But something drove it all. I don't know that Man's brain was ever meant to understand that. It doesn't help kill and eat rats or buffalo or chew up bamboo shoots. How much does one have to know to stay alive on this planet? I have spent 10 or 12 nights in the Andes very near Chile at above 5,000 meters. Many of those nights had 80 MPH winds dumping snow on us but a few were clear. No airplanes, no light from other sources, when the Moon went down the view was spectacular, absolutely stunning. The term "Milky Way" meant something, and one was instantly aware of it. Something to never forget. And it would be nice to see the beginning. I have to admit I don't understand the physicists who say that time is optional, and that it could run backward or just not exist. That's a puzzlement. You are absolutely correct. What was there at the beginning, if anything, is a mighty curious proposition. From the viewpoint of one person on Earth, there is so much energy/mass in the Universe it’s staggering, and the origin or beginning or start would have to be one heckuva an event. And some say it could have come from nothing, and there’s a parallel but opposite universe next to us. But something drove it all. I don’t know that Man’s brain was ever meant to understand that. It doesn’t help kill and eat rats or buffalo or chew up bamboo shoots. How much does one have to know to stay alive on this planet?

I have spent 10 or 12 nights in the Andes very near Chile at above 5,000 meters. Many of those nights had 80 MPH winds dumping snow on us but a few were clear.

No airplanes, no light from other sources, when the Moon went down the view was spectacular, absolutely stunning. The term “Milky Way” meant something, and one was instantly aware of it.

Something to never forget.

And it would be nice to see the beginning. I have to admit I don’t understand the physicists who say that time is optional, and that it could run backward or just not exist. That’s a puzzlement.

]]> By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2013/12/09/two-items-on-the-bucket-list-nearing-check-off/#comment-28803 RobVG Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:58:22 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=41235#comment-28803 You should be, they're getting close. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9926547/1billion-telescope-can-see-the-beginning-of-time.html http://www.catholic.org/technology/story.php?id=52167 You should be, they’re getting close.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9926547/1billion-telescope-can-see-the-beginning-of-time.html

http://www.catholic.org/technology/story.php?id=52167

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