The Big Bang

A Pauper went to a Bank and asked to borrow Billions. Did they laugh at him?

No! It was a smart Bank!

He got his loan – but it was on the condition that he keep his Loan, and the proceeds of his Loan, on deposit in the Bank, and not make any withdrawals “without the Bank’s consent.”

The Pauper was happy and he readily agreed. He had Billions of Dollars in Assets! The Bank was happy – it had Billions of Dollars in Deposits!

Result: Billions of Dollars of Assets out of nothing – ex Nihilio. Something very substantial out of nothing – q.v. Genesis 1.1-3.

Everyone had something, and it did not cost anyone anything, because it all came out of nothing, ex Nihilio.

To our surprise, the Bible tells what the Scientists have only recently discovered:

“In the Beginning, There was Nothing!” (Genesis 1.1-3).

Today, scientists believe that that is how our Universe got started – something out of nothing – a big event, a loan and a debt – a hole and a pile – via a Big Bang – all out of absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, positively Nothing .

Out of this Big Bank – or Big Bang – came assets and liabilities in the form of electrons, protrons, neutrons, photons, quarks, et al, and all their sub-entities, and their progeny, the Elements, and their progeny, the molecules and Matter and Life.

Two gasses – the elements H and O – led the way. They mated and had an offspring, which they called Water. Strangely, their offspring, while a liquid, was a marriage of two gaseous parents named H and O (actually there were two H’s, but Water clung to both O and the two H’s).

Others got the idea and many marriages followed, until there was a Universe filled with strange and unique marriages of electrons and positrons, and they had offspring, atoms, molecules, etc.

Water was a smart baby – it knew it had to be different if it wanted to get anywhere, so it decided to go against all reason and logic. Instead of compacting at low temperatures, when it froze, as did all its relatives, Water decided to compress like all the others, when it cooled, but suddenly to reverse all tradition, and “Expand!” when it froze, so that Water could have the honor of making life possible on Earth.

Water knew that if it continued to contract as it froze – like everything else – it would sink rather than float, and then life on Earth would not be possible.

Water was even smarter. It also knew that it had to evaporate at low temperatures, and ascend into clouds and become moisture, and rain and snow and dew in their Seasons. Water knew that Life would not be possible unless Water made itself do these things.

Amazingly, everything afterward seemed to come from little teeny, tiny bits of electricity, from electrons, positrons, neutrons, quarks, photons, etc. Blood, Flesh, Bone, Veins, Muscles, Arteries, Brains, Neurons, Capillaries, Nerves, everything came out of, and if you are tiny enough to see it, bits of electricity, each with unbelievably vast spaces – relatively miles of distance – between each of them, attracted to each other by only a mystical far-away strange “non-attachment,” which, for lack of a better term, those who are “Greene,” call “Strings.” But those who knew better, knew that the distances are too vast for “strings” or physical attraction, and know that the attraction is part of “the Divine Force of the Universe.”

When did Science first learn of and understand all of this strange electrical nature of Biology? Was it when it found that there was a “Big Bang” at what Scientists persist in calling the “Beginning” of everything.

Of course it wasn’t the Beginning of everything – it only was the Beginning of our little Universe, one of untold billions of other visible and invisible Universes, so many that we don’t know how many. And each Universe, like our “little” Universe, has countless billions of suns, stars, planets, asteroids, comets, etc. And where, if anywhere, is it all? Is it all in G-d’s Mind and Vision, like a vast super computer?

The Big Questions remains: Who are we, where are we, why are we, what are we here for, and what are we to do with our lives, our bodies, our minds and or beliefs – which really are nothing but complicated, intertwined, complex bits and combinations of positive and negative charges, electro-magnatism, photons – that add up to nothing?

In this week’s Torah Reading, we begin with the First Book, Genesis, “Berashis” or “In the Beginning” in English, and learn what we are expected to do with our gift of Life.

Isn’t it time to have a new look at the first book of Science, the Book of Creation, the Book of the Beginning – and the Book of Life and the Purpose of Life?

© 2007 L.N.S.