Cosmic Architecture: Mapping the Universe’s Design, Part 2 of 2

“Imagine if our universe was compressed into a small ball, the pressure and temperature inside would be enormous. At some point it became impossible to withstand them, and here comes the Big Bang. It was an outburst of energy and matter that created everything we see now, time and space, basic physical forces.” Some propose that God could have used the Big Bang to bring the universe into being. In The Grand Design, Dr. Hawking and coauthor Leonard Mlodinow claim that it was natural law, not a supernatural force, that started the universe.

But for Dr. Alan Guth and his colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the big scientific question remains: If the universe truly came from nothing, what exactly “banged”? “The universe underwent a breathtaking cosmic expansion, doubling in size at least 80 times in the fraction of a second.” The discovery of cosmic inflation – honored with the 2014 Kavli Prize – helped bridge several gaps in our understanding of the universe’s earliest moments. “That is fairly breathtaking in its lack of probability of ever having happened. I think the laws of nature potentially could be the product of a mind.”

When the emission of radiation from black holes is observed, measured, and recalculated, it hints at a truth that reaches beyond science – a remarkable spiritual insight graciously shared by our Most Benevolent Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan). “It’s a rescue arena. A special magnetic field to rescue, and to help those in hell. (Wow.) Whatever goes in there, it just stays in there. So there has to be this balance ring, half of the ring or the stripes, half-way, to counterbalance the force of the black hole. Because the black hole is hell.”