... the universe were to contract the temperature would rise. From here Weisskopf asks the question, "What is the big bang"? He proceeds to answer this question with a new discovery in particle physics. The false vacuum, in contras to the true vacuum, is empty of matter, not energy. Therefore when a true vacuum (the empty void before the big bang) is fluctuated into ... can they contradict each other. Religion is the acknowledgement of our obligation to god, so when the first people gave nature god like properties, they also took on the obligation to obey their god. Now the split between re...

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