{"id":1950,"date":"2010-05-23T07:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T07:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/05\/a-golden-age-of-cosmological-d.html"},"modified":"2010-05-23T07:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T07:21:32","slug":"a-golden-age-of-cosmological-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2010\/05\/a-golden-age-of-cosmological-d.html","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; of cosmological discoveries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/cosmos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5958\" src=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/cosmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-color: initial;float: right\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I wrote about the transition into a new 200-year Jupiter\/Saturn cycle into the air element as the harbinger of new ideas and ways of thinking about our world. &nbsp;Evidently cosmologists agree, and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/news\/3308231.html?page=1&amp;c=y\" target=\"_blank\">back in 2003<\/a>&nbsp;in a brand-new conference on the Future of Cosmology they declared that we are in a &#8220;golden age&#8221; of cosmological discovery.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting article in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2010\/05\/the-big-bang-theory-fact-or-fiction-many-experts-say-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Galaxy<\/a>&nbsp;suggests that the Big Bang Theory, the sacred cow that describes the origin of the Universe, may not hold up under new cosmological discoveries. &nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Although the &#8220;Big Bang&#8221; is often presented as if it is proven fact, there is a wealth of data, including recent revelations of the several space probes and findings in fundamental physics, which possibly tell a different story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every year we learn more about the origin of life on Earth as well, resulting in the shifting and expansion of our concept of time. &nbsp;The Universe is ever older than previously thought, and the origin of human life and civilization continues to be pushed back as well. &nbsp;Indeed, the very nature of reality is being stretched beyond recognition so that we can perhaps understand life to a greater degree than ever before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about the transition into a new 200-year Jupiter\/Saturn cycle into the air element as the harbinger of new ideas and ways of thinking about our world. &nbsp;Evidently cosmologists agree, and&nbsp;back in 2003&nbsp;in a brand-new conference on the Future of Cosmology they declared that we are in a &#8220;golden age&#8221; of cosmological discovery.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A &quot;Golden Age&quot; of cosmological discoveries? 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