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[coldcreation]

Is your world-view really free of supernatural or mystical forces, and entities? What about forces or entities such as spacetime wormholes, black holes, magnetic monopoles, domain walls, cosmic string-like defects, quintessence, false vacuums, Higgs particles (the God particle), supersymmetric point-like and surface-like defects imagined to be extremely stable and extremely massive, strings, superstrings, extra dimensions (in addition to the known four), non-baryonic dark matter, dark energy. Did I forget anybody?

Oh yes, the big bang (how could anyone forget the Mother of all events) on whom modern cosmology has pined all its hopes, renounces the explanation of its own origin. Like a new-god, this creature was of human invention, issue of human madness; like all gods. They are always looking back to the bright ages, when illusion and faith were a different question; raving of the reason was akin to god, and doubt was a sin. In the gruesome cosmological big bang singularity (or whatever it was, or wasn't) the exception has become the rule. The unattainable became reality!

If you believe in any of the above forces or entities, then you are, by definition, NOT a bright!


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