Big Bang Talk

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“What can I get you guys?”

Shapur: “I’ll have apple pie and decaf.”

Lambert: “Carrot cake for me, and some more water.”

Shapur continued: “…so the molecules are repelling each other…their electron clouds preventing them from forming a bond.”

Lambert: “Yeah, they need a third party, if you will, to overcome their repulsion to each other. They’re both in relatively stable states.” 

Shapur: “ …activation energy, usually some kind of heat.”

Lambert:”Yes, and in the Big Bang expansion, there seem to have been some mysterious ‘potential energy wells’ that protected the newly-forming matter particles instead of destroying them. In a sense, these forces were working against entropy. They were analogous to that activation energy in molecular bonding, And this constructive principle (whatever it was) somehow enabled the stabilizing of fundamental matter components--protons, neutrons, etc. As a result, matter could become a stable, real entity, even in the presence of enormous Big Bang force.

Shapur: “Energy separated itself into matter.”

Kaneesha, who was accustomed to their dialogues, overhead this, set desserts on the table, and inserted: “Or, maybe it was more like: energy was separated from matter…like, somebody did it.”

Lambert: “Thank you, Kaneesha. Yes, you could say that.”

Kaneesha smiled broadly, put her hand on her hip and looked at Lambert, teasing him. She quipped: “Maybe it was like: ‘God separated the light from darkness, matter or whatever you want to call it, and said ‘yeah, it was, like, pretty good.’”

Shapur busted out laughing.

 And Kaneesha chuckled. She raised her eyebrows and started to walk away, tending to her duties. Shapur laughed quite a lot about it, while Lambert’s eyes registered genuine amusement and a sense of well-being.

Shapur lassoed their levity back to discussion: “Well, then…back to the Second Law…the effects of it are really more general than some folks suppose: the original concentrated energy of the universe expanded, diffusing, and slowing down, and thereby sort of ‘condensing’ into matter as it went.”

Glass half-Full  , chapter 8, is my 2007 novel from which this dinnertime discussion of the universe expansion/creation is activated in your mind if you read it. It is never too late to learn something about the Almighty's creation of the Universe.