From dca8538fdf2dcf87ddfb2d6af2e705a5109dd475 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Cady Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 11:02:55 -0400 Subject: text --- today-fragments.txt | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ today.txt | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 237 insertions(+) create mode 100644 today-fragments.txt create mode 100644 today.txt diff --git a/today-fragments.txt b/today-fragments.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..085483f --- /dev/null +++ b/today-fragments.txt @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +Sep 1. + + Today we read the story of the creation of the solar system + + At the beginning of the big bang, + everything that can be seen -- + everything that makes up the earth, + or the sun, or the clouds, + or the stars in the sky + -- was compressed + -- made to fit -- + into a space much smaller + than the space taken now + by a human hand; + or even a finger; + or the smallest shaving + of a fingernail. + +14 billion years ago, +January 1 on the Cosmic Calendar, +At the stroke of midnight +At the beginning of the new year-- + + Everything within that small space was identical everywhere. + There was nowhere any difference between light and dark, + or between full and empty; + but everything was full; + and it was as if all was dark, + because there was nowhere clear enough + for light to shine through. + + And then the space expanded; + and there became the difference + between the full and the empty. + This was the Big Bang. + +15 minutes later on the Cosmic Calendar, +or 370 thousand years after the big bang: + + After the Big Bang began, space kept on expanding, getting bigger + and bigger, so that there was more and more emptiness to surround + all the things that would become the stars and the sun and the + earth. + + It took fifteen minutes + on the Cosmic Calendar, + or 370 thousand years, + before there was enough emptiness + for light to shine + through the universe. + + Then there was light, + and the emptiness expanded more and more, + and the empty spaces became like air bubbles + in a watery foam, surrounded by thin layers + of the things that would become the galaxies + and the stars and the sun and the earth. + + As time went on + and the empty voids grew bigger and bigger, + the full parts between them grew smaller and smaller, + so that all the things that would become galaxies + came together toward each other, collecting themselves + into great flocks called filaments. + + [The filament Pisces–Cetus is home to our Milky Way.] + + + + [todo look up size of universe at various times] + + + But those things were not stars until they learned + the very first way of making a copy + which is called + the "chain reaction" + + + The thin layers of foam + surrounding bubbles of empty void + are called galactic filaments, + and there is one such layer, + called Pisces–Cetus, + + [Photograph: Cosmic + Microwave Background] + + [As it is possible, + using a telescope, to + see backward in time; it + is possible today, using + the right telescope, + to see this very same + light: the very first + light that was able to + reach through empty + space.] + + + + + +there was +no space that was empty, +but everything was full, +and there was no space +for light to travel. + + + +The space taken up by the earth +is itself larger +than the human mind of an adult +by nature comprehends; + +Yet the size of earth is nothing +compared to the size of even a small star +(which is all that the sun is: +a small star, +closer to us +than any other star) + +and the stars themselves nothing in size +compared to the galaxies +(the skyfuls of stars +such as we see in our Earth sky +as we look out on the galaxy +we call the Milky Way) + + +(which are the stars of our galaxy, the milky way, and our local galactic filament, ) + +on the earth and all the stars in the sky was compressed into a space smaller than a human +hand. The galaxy was compressed into a space smaller than a finger. +All of the earth was compressed into a space smaller than a shaving of +a fingernail. All of that which would become the stars and the sun and +the earth was then able to fit into a sphere with the width of a single +hair. And everything within that small space was identical everywhere; +nothing was different anywhere. + + + + + + + + + +Our year begins at the time of midnight and the date of January 1. +On the Cosmic Calendar we count the universe along with the year. +At the beginning of the year, we count the beginning +of everything we know +from before us, +which is called the Big Bang. + +At the end of the year, +we count our time right now, +which is called the present. + +All along, in between, we count the days between. + +In a calendar year, we count 365 days. +In a calendar year, each day has 24 hours. +In a Cosmic Calendar year, we count 365 days. +In a Cosmic Calendar year, each day has 38 million years. diff --git a/today.txt b/today.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6b4529 --- /dev/null +++ b/today.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Sep 1 +===== + +Today we read the story of the creation of the sun and earth. + + At the beginning of the big bang, + everything that can be seen -- + everything that makes up the earth, + or the sun, or the clouds, + or the stars in the sky + -- was compressed + -- made to fit -- + into a space much smaller + than the space taken now + by a human hand; + or even a finger; + or the smallest shaving + of a fingernail. + +14 billion years ago, +January 1 on the Cosmic Calendar, +At the stroke of midnight +At the beginning of the new year-- + + Everything within that small space was identical everywhere. + There was nowhere any difference between light and dark, + or between full and empty; + but everything was full; + and it was as if all was dark, + because there was nowhere clear enough + for light to shine through. + + And then the space expanded; + and there became the difference + between the full and the empty. + This was the Big Bang. + +15 minutes later on the Cosmic Calendar, +or 370 thousand years after the big bang: + + After the Big Bang began, space kept on expanding, getting bigger + and bigger, so that there was more and more emptiness to surround + all the things that would become the stars and the sun and the + earth. + + It took fifteen minutes + on the Cosmic Calendar, + or 370 thousand years, + before there was enough emptiness + for light to shine + through the universe. + + Then there was light, + and the emptiness expanded more and more, + and the empty spaces became like air bubbles + in a watery foam, surrounded by thin layers + of the things that would become the galaxies + and the stars and the sun and the earth. + + As time went on and the empty voids grew bigger and bigger, the + full parts between them grew smaller and smaller, so that all the + things that would become galaxies came together toward each other, + collecting themselves into great flocks called filaments. As the + filaments shrank smaller into themselves they began to form swirling + clouds called galaxies where the things within would swirl together + into spiraling clouds as well. So there were spiraling swirls and + clouds within spiraling swirls and clouds. + +Big Bang Tea Party +================== + + -- cgit v1.2.3