For thousands of years people have looked up at the night sky in awe and amazement. It was once thought that supernatural intervention was the driving force behind the mechanisms of the universe. While the many presumptions of the ancients have been demythologized by scientific inquiry as more of the natural reality is understood, that same inquiry now brings us to a place where we can see the universe and the functions of many of its interlocking parts with much more clarity.

Credit & Copyright: John Davis (NASA)

Innumerable brilliant minds, through centuries of inventive pursuits, working tirelessly for years on end has given us the ability to replicate the conditions of the early universe. Through a device called the Hadron Collider (and other particle colliders) scientists are now able to get deeper insight into the conditions of the universe while it was only a fraction of a second old.

The scientific evidence points to the reality that the universe appears to have leapt into existence out of nothingness. A tiny spec known as the singularity, beyond which all known laws of physical break down, exploded into being and has expanded thereafter to be the universe of today. We use the term explode because there is no other better way to describe the extreme rate of expansion from the singularity, but this rate of expansion was very finely tuned. This expansion was so fast and the release of energy so great that the event was deemed to be termed the Big Bang. (more…)