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 December 24, 2021 This morning I just read and article  How small was the Universe when the hot Big Bang began?   The geeky side of me pursuing my interest as a lay person enjoyed reading about our gathering understanding of the beginnings of our universe and I get a kick out of being able to fool myself into thinking I can understand the science and how the hypotheses have been formulated. I started a message to a friend who shares some of this interest and my message to him mushroomed into an idea to continue in this blog. However, in the process of sending the message to a number of potential recipients my iPhone screen froze and then I lost all of what I was writing about.  The article   https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/small-universe-big-bang  Is all about how our scientific explorations of matter, energy, dark matter, dark energy, space, time, radiation, and changes in the dynamics of interactions between theses "things, energy, and time" change as our universe
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 December 13, 2021 Reflection and writing about my inner self is complicated but revealing to me since I'm never sure what I'll discover during my foreighs into writing this blog. Many issues come to mind but I shall begin with Vanity of Vanities.  Please forgive my copying the following article since I am not a scholar of the bible but I'm intrigued by Ecclesiastes. https://interestingliterature.com/2021/07/bible-vanity-of-vanities-all-is-vanity-meaning-analysis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bible-vanity-of-vanities-all-is-vanity-meaning-analysis Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.’ These words, along with ‘to everything there is a season’, are among the most famous in the Book of Ecclesiastes, part of the Old Testament. The Bible is full of well-known quotations which are often cited in a way that floats quite free of their original context; so what does ‘Vanity of vanities’ and ‘all is vanity’ actually mean? Th