Scattered Musings

It seems the idea of god was not liked by the people who have their chips working back in their heads. So, they started the quest for an answer to the question, how and when did this all start? The reply to the question was started when Edwin Hubble made his landmark observation, that is wherever you look in the open sky, distant galaxies are moving away from us. It just means the universe is expanding. That is revolutionary because until then, people believed that the universe is static, infinite and existed forever, as there was no observable proof to state their beliefs wrong. Hubble’s observations made all realize that at earlier time they would have been closer together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time about ten or twenty million years ago they were all at exactly the same place. This discovery finally brought the question of the beginning of the universe into the realm of science. Hubble’s observations suggested that there was a time called the Big Ban