I t is odd , all the sam e , to see that though the astrophysi cists of exo b iology appear to believe in universal l i fe spread througho ut outer space, they still refuse to b el ieve in l i fe eve rl asting!
'0 ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, b u r can ye not discern the signs o f the times?' (M atth ew 1 6 : 3) . This ph rase o f C h ri st ' s see m s to be di rected at today' s global climate change ecologists who strangely leave o ut grey ecology, the sudden reten tion of spacetime, the temporal co mpression of the common world, even as those cosmologists who are devotees of the B IG BANG envisage , most concretely, the hypothesis of the B IG C RUN C H , the final contraction of the expanding U niverse.
Fifteen b illion years ago, according to the late B elgian astro nomer-physicist abbe Lemaitre, Russian cosmologist-physicist G eorge G amow and company, there would have been a deflagration of the p ri m o rdial ato m , triggering the exp ansion of a b ubble that was to keep growing all the way alo ng an - astra-hi storical - continuum right up to the B IG CRUNCH - the implosion and crash of the Time B arrier. B ut today we' re fo rced to report that i n the ir quest to discover the very first second of the creation of the Un iverse, our savvy astro nomers o f the vastness of outer space seem particularly anxious about the infinitesimal duration of the initial i nstant . 1
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