big bang – Roger Floyd's Website

Is Outer Space Real?

I still have lots of questions. Like, what is outer space? Is it real? Does it actually exist? Now, I’m defining “outer space” as all the emptiness outside all the other things in the universe. I’m eliminating all planets and stars and asteroids and all space junk and photons and atoms and molecules and gas…

Big Bang Or Big Bounce?

Back in February, 2017, an interesting article appeared in that month’s issue of Scientific American. Written by Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Abraham Loeb, the authors presented some evidence for a “big bounce” in the life of our universe, rather than the much better known “big bang.” The universe as we know it is…

Where Are You?

The title of this post isn’t meant to ask where you are in a spatial location, but in terms of time. Where are you—where are we all, for that matter—in the life of this universe? I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. We all live on a rather attractive blue, white, green and brown…