In the beginning there were no words,
And then we made words,
And with these words we began writing,
And we wrote both stories and non-fiction.
Limitations
This is not the 3rd installment of a trilogy,
Just a mere check-in on the hardest to answer questions throughout all human history,
Some questions of which have been given questionable answers,
Questionables tending to never dare be contended with much less questioned,
A check-in just hopin’ to keep open still-open questions that tend to end discussions.
So this has nothing to do with Testament 1 that first premiered in 100 BC give or take,
That took about 1,000 years to make - starting in about the year 1,100 BC,
By whittling tons of written submissions under consideration down to 1 best collection,
Nor its sequel Testament 2 whose release-date was some time around 100 AD,
Made much quicker starting in about the year 50 AD - taking only about 50 years,
To edit down from its long list of contending written works to its final greatest hits list,
No this is a totally unrelated piece from the year 2076,
But much like those two fantastically successful works,
This is a collection of top thinkers’ thoughts from throughout the ages,
About Ethics and Science,
In multiple formats such as narratives stories poems and lists,
But this is where any similarities to a bible come to an end,
So this is not the 3rd one following Testament 1: God’s Word, and Testament 2: Jesus’ Walk,
It’s been 2,076 years since Mary a teen virgin gave birth to Jesus Christ in Part 2,
Much that was certain now’s a fallen curtain ever since that 1st Christmas back in 1 AD,
This is no bible by definition as bibles answer unanswerable questions on good authority,
And this here does not answer any still-open questions it only frames and poses them,
This will fail anybody needing yet-known answers to be offered with authoritative certainty.
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This all said admittedly if this were the 3rd installment of the trilogy following
Testament 1: God’s Word, and
Testament 2: Jesus’ Walk,
It’s name would be -
Testament 3: Our Selves,
Which may be better,
Maybe less tropey sounding than Testament 3: We the People,
I don’t know,
I’m still bouncing it off others that seem to me to be best able to play devil's advocate,
Anyway no matter the naming whether ‘We the People’ or ‘Our Selves’ which ever way,
They are 2 different titles with 2 different wordings that mean exactly the same thing,
I think,
Therefore I am -
Still bouncing it off some good arguers so as to see whether or not they disagree,
Do you also see these 2 choices - Our Selves and We the People - synonymously?
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From the kitchen mom announces, “Okay Sally! Time to start getting ready for church!”
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And we’re back,
Also - just realized my RV’s solar batteries are super low but uh,
Let’s keep it going,
Genesis
And then Galileo gave us an eye up into the heavens…
And that telescope had an objective lens…
And that objective lens had an aperture…
And that aperture gathered up 180 times the light…
180 times the light that could be gathered by our naked eyes…
And that aperture gathered so much light it became a portal…
And that portal took us to the farthest edges of our Universe…
On the origin or coming into being of something,
On the hardest to answer questions dating back to the start of human history,
Let’s start by admitting the things that remain a total mystery,
Because admission to limitations is the price of admission for solving any problem,
This applies to anyone that might be suffering from QDD - Question Deficit Disorder,
And also to any scientist who might blindly believe himself - Confirmation Bias-itis,
And mostly anybody infected with the contagious inclined to spread - Dogmatism Virus,
To date we still have no way to either falsify or validate any answers to these 3 questions -
What created all matter - when was all the matter set into motion
What created life - when was this inflection point from inorganic to organic matter
What is consciousness - is to know right vs. wrong a function of one’s soul or brain
Beyond these 3,
Remains a long list of hard questions still far away from any answers reaching any consensus,
But these 3 do seem to be the biggest 3 with lines in the sand that are most contentious,
And now for some good news,
Beyond the Big 3 we’ve figured out a ton on the origin / coming to be of lotsa other things,
In fact we spotted a major timeline issue in the very opening scene of Testament 1,
A jump-cut of astronomical proportions - here’s the testimony in question,
The Information - he indicated that the Universe is 6,000 years young,
All In Formation - he said that he created it all set in 6 days flat,
1 silly little question having nothing to do with it would wind up blowing this testimony up,
The wick that was lit was 1 man’s 1 otherwise seemingly benign and unrelated question,
The unwitting strike of the match was struck in 1638 when somebody asked -
What is the speed of light
Galileo was the 1st person ever on record to have ever asked this question,
But spoiler alert,
The question was answered 38 years after Galileo asked it which was 34 years after his death,
Silly question meaning asked in 1638 whence the Witch Trials were still peak criminal science,
Back when 99% of us thought that light might as well be glow-in-the-dark air except at night
If we ever even thought about light at all or as anything other than it simply helped us see,
We’d need to unlearn almost everything just to be able to actually see,
Just how truly perceptive and insanely imaginative Galileo must’ve been,
To be able in 1638 to imagine that light is in motion not to mention even ask the speed of it,
Crazy to think,
But shadows and Sunsets caught his attention and begged him to wonder - does light move,
Galileo would think thoughts like,
I know that sound travels so might it be right to think that light might also be in motion,
I know that sound travels because I see a canon’s explosion before I hear its explosion,
And if sound takes time to reach me does it not follow that the visuals should also,
Should not the light likewise take at least some time to reach my eyes,
And furthermore come to think of it given that I always see the explosion before I hear it,
Am I not bound to guess that light must travel faster than sound,
And if so just how fast might actually it go,
He never got the answer much less could've guessed that his random light-speed question,
Would wind up implicating the still yet-known astronomically huge jump-cut in Testament 1,
By prompting light-speed related question-answers over the next some 300+ years,
Although don’t get it wrong,
While still alive the spry old Galileo paid 1 helluva price for his madly perceptive imagination,
For helping spot / correct a totally different topic’s flaw - how our Solar System works,
Corrected by promoting a controversial theory of a colleague named Copernicus,
That theory being that we go around the Sun - and not the Sun round us,
Controversial because this would remove - Our Selves -,
This would cease - We the People - from being the center of the Universe,
For this unthinkable crime of heresy which was highly against the law,
In both the letter and the spirit,
Galileo spent the last 4 years of his life under house arrest until his death in 1642,
But putting their correct theory that placed the Sun at the center of our Solar System aside -
Back to Galileo’s speed-of-light question that would blow up the entire 6,000-year time-line,
Blowing to high heavens the related testimony from the very opening scene in Testament 1,
Here’s how the correction of the astronomical jump-cut of our Universe’s age came to be,
Galileo’s speed-of-light question was an unwitting strike of a match that lit a wick,
A wick that led to a series of 4 bombs,
The 1st 3 bombs of which provided the 3 needed ingredients to be mixed for the 4th bomb,
The grand finale 4th bomb’s explosion exacting the age of our Universe’s existence,
Here’s the 3 factors that combined to answer the age question with a Big Bang -
Speed
1675 - Speed of Light is Figured out
Unit of Measure
1838 - “Light-year” unit of measurement of distance is invented
The Target Endpoint of the Measurement
1965 - Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is discovered
3 specific bits of newer information all brought together but all 3 brought from -
3 different peoples,
3 different places,
And 3 different time periods in history specifically 3 of our 4 prior centuries,
3 different variables begotten that made so much of our cosmic mathematics mathable,
The Speed of Light as in the miles-per-hour MPH speed-limit that light travels,
The Lightyear Measurement as in the distance that light travels in one year precisely,
The Target Endpoint as in our Cosmic Horizon the farthest our telescopes can see,
Shedding light on things once so blind to us that everybody - including he himself,
Even Galileo himself could not have envisioned what types of things would come into view,
Like,
Light can be used like a ruler to measure something on top of your desk in inches,
But more like a yardstick that would measure the desk itself by foot,
But still more so like a tape measure that’s further suited to measure room dimensions,
But way bigger like an odometer in a car measuring miles-driven,
But biggest - the Universe is measured by units of measure named Lightyears,
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And we’re back,
And guys I’m sorry my RV’s Solar is just about to hit 0% I’m going to have to run through this,
So to the 4th and final in that series of bombs,
To the wick that was lit by Galileo’s unwitting strike of that match on that date back in 1638,
To the Big Bang –
2012 – The Age of our Universe is pinpointed
Okay – I’m sorry everybody we just hardly got started here but I need to wrap this. I’ve got maybe 3 minutes till my entire RV’s solar dies. Poor planning on my part. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of The Newer Podcast. I’m guessing we’ll have to pick up an episode we’ll need to name The Newer Testament part 2 – or would that be The Newer Newer Testament?
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Okay, let’s wrap this up -
Our Universe’s existence is 13.8 Billion years old on the nose,
Based on the Big Bang having occurred 13.8 Billion years ago,
Based on the distance to our Cosmic Horizon which is located 13.8 Billion Light Years away -
Well - actually,
Our Cosmic Horizon is actually located 46.5 Billion Light Years away,
But we don’t have time to get in to Cosmic Inflation and Expansion right now,
Our Cosmic Horizon being the farthest our telescopes can see,
A 13.8B LY Visual Time Machine view of the past - adjusted for Inflation and Expansion
Our Cosmic Horizon being the CMB - the CMB being,
The Cosmic Microwave Background fallout that persists from the Big Bang explosion,
The Big Bang explosion and resulting fallout of which Galileo could've never predicted,
When he unwittingly lit its wick back in 1638 with his silly light-speed question,
This has been The Newer Podcast - please don’t forget to hit like and subscribe - gotta go.
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