Astrophysicist Excommunicated

This is an ARTICLE exploring the philosophical and theological implications of a modern scientific theory.

Cape Canaveral, FL: Astrophysicist Norman Blackwell has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, for his most recent publication in which he presents proof that the Big Bang occurred at least twice in the long history of the cosmos. He has gone so far as to suggest that the Big Bang has occurred and will occur ad infinitum. The conflict with the Church lay in the theological implications of such a description of the cosmos.

Left wide open is the possibility that humans have existed during each new Big Bang period.

According to Blackwell's argument, which assumes that the laws of physics are the same during each Big Bang that occurs, all material would expand in the same way each time. Consequently, galaxies of Big Bang One would look the same as galaxies of Big Bang Two. Even cosmic details such as stars would be composed of the same elements in the periods following each Big Bang.

Simply put, all the forms that we see in our cosmos would have existed in any previous or succeeding cosmos. This means that solar systems like the ones we have now have existed and will exist again, assuming Blackwell's hypothesis is correct.

If there have existed, or will exist, solar systems similar to ours in other Big Bang periods, couldn't they also be suitable for lifeforms?

It seems that if Blackwell is right, the human form could have existed in Big Bang One, and that it will exist in Big Bang two, three, four, five and so on.

If human beings did in fact live in a previous Big Bang, how similar were they to us? Furthermore, if scientific laws were exactly the same for each Big Bang, it could be possible that the exact same people inhabited the exact same planet, only at a different age of the universe's infinite pattern of explosion, expansion, and collapse.

This means that you yourself could have existed several times before and may exists over and over again on a time scale too great to fully comprehend.

Scientist, philosophers, and theologians are baffled by the paradox which has been dubbed by some as periodic eternity. Is this reincarnation? Determinism? Philosophers of metaphysics have speculated that perhaps each Big Bang has exactly the same ingredients. Some have gone so far as to say that Freedom itself may be a fundamental consequence of astrophysical laws.

In the words of Doris Euclid, a tenured professor of metaphysics at the University of Santa Monica, in Santa Monica, California, "Perhaps freedom is the consequence of the passage of Time, and like the formation of a diamond it can only come into existence under the magnificent pressure of a universe expanded to limits; limits that bring into being consciousness; limits that man has come to measure in the intervals of evolution, wisdom, love, humanity, spiritual communion...To know the primary cause has always meant to approach the Divine."

Dana Arlinghaus, theologian, takes a similar stance, "Maybe it is true, in a scientific sense, the doctrine promised by Christ. This theory seems to reinforce the idea that life is literally eternal."

In fact, minds from many disciplines have been moved by Blackwell's findings. Poet laureate, Sophia Grangier submitted the following proposition to an audience in Paris, "Man is formed from the stardust as the sole admirer of the beauty and order his crude constitution has finally achieved."

In his own defense, Blackwell has said to his accusers, "if we are but a moment, fine; but if that moment is repeated again and again, science says we are a Truth. Insofar as that is true, history tells us we must also be divine."

Norman Blackwell is currently living on a Russian space station where advanced studies on black holes are being conducted. His research, although not accessible in most languages, may soon be published by Doksee, an independent research firm committed to the dissemination of cutting-edge astronomical data in accordance with the first amendment rights of free speech and press.

15 Year Old Boy Out-performs Google Search Engines

This is an ARTICLE about a young phenom who threatens to out-perform the most popular internet search engine, Google.

Los Angeles, CA: Can it be so that the mind of a 15 year-old boy can categorize and access volumes of data more efficiently and quickly than Google? Researchers have found one young man who can do just that. Rene ‘Digital’ Murray was first discovered to have a photographic memory at the age of three. By five he was able to record entire children’s books, page by page, in his head. By ten he had half of encyclopedia Britannica committed to memory. And yet he uses only 22 percent of his brain (the rest of us use between 2-7 percent).

When asked how he could retain such voluminous information, he said it was simply a matter of looking at something the right way.

Since then, scientist have been scratching their heads, theorizing how this young man, or any human being for that matter, could store and recall so much data. Recent studies led by Cornell neuropsychologist Mina Norvlavsky suggest that what young Rene said about “seeing something the right way” was not too far off the mark. In studying the boy’s eye movements, she noticed a finite pattern occurring while the boy’s eyes scanned an article or visual image. So quick and minute were the movements, it required a special video camera to capture it.

“Have you ever seen those videos of a hummingbird flying where you can see the wings flapping slowly? Well, we basically got one of those and made it move double-time,” says professor Norlovsky.

This spiral pattern is caused by what Norlovsky has dubbed the facsimile bundle, a collection of nerves and muscles that allow Rene’s eyes to move so quickly. It seems that the order in which the information is collected also helps to make the information extremely recollectable, as if his mind simply has to reverse the process his eyes used to absorb the information.

“I remember one random word, like a keyword, and all the information is in there. Then I just use other keywords to minimize the search, but I’m not actually thinking when I do that part. I just sort of happens that way.”

Norlovsky is still scratching her head over how exactly data is retrieved.

However, if Norlovsky’s speculations about how data are absorbed are true, the days of needing a computer to navigate through a world of information might be soon coming to a close. Her laboratory is already working with a nano-device laboratory, also at Cornell, that will create a chip one can attach to his or her temple to create the same impulse patterns recorded in young Rene’s eyes.

The old days of using less than 10 percent of our brains might just be coming to a close.