Friday, February 12, 2016

The Big Bang. The Sound Waves.


It was the equivalent of the Astro-physcist's Super Bowl yesterday.
Quivering with excitement professor Norna Robertson  announced that, at last, the predictions of Einstein, made 90 years ago, have been verified: namely that gravity moves in waves across the universe.
Apparently, in a world far away and at a time billion years before any of us were born, two black holes collided. The shock waves cause by this collision have just reached our planet, detected by Atomic ears turned towards the sky somewhere in the Atacama desert.
Wow! Fancy that! According to the Professor of Astro-Physics at Harvard University, we now have the sound track to go with our movie picture of the Cosmos.
But since this piece of information has cost billions of dollars and years of scientific sleuth work to discover why did someone not simply point the research team to Psalm 19? Which reads:

"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night knowledge.
There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
Their poetry has gone out through all the earth and their words unto the end of the earth."
What the boffins have spent their entire lives to discover is A.B.C. to the simplest of believers in the story of Creation.
Folks, it is just so much easier to believe in God... and a lot cheaper too.
Jubilate.
Ian

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Bernie and Donald .

Get ready folks. The change has occurred. Yesterday, that is, in New Hampshire.
This was the defining moment when 'politics as usual' in America was over for good.
Who could have foreseen in 44 BC when the first triumvirate came to a violent end with the assassination of Julius Caesar that the governing system of the Roman Empire would never be the same? 
Yet a massive change had taken place that decided the ultimate destiny of Pax Romana, whether it was recognized or not. I believe that such an event took place last night in New Hampshire.
The old way of doing things in the arena of American Politics is over.
The moderate establishment candidates of Clinton on the one side and Bush, Christie and Kasich on the other were overpowered by the voices of Trump and Sanders who were articulating the pent up anger and frustration of an electorate fed up with political correctness, Washington cronyism and years of "business-as-usual."
Sanders, who is little more than a pale-pink communist, loudly called for the rich to be taxed to the limit, for Wall Street to pay for the entitlements of the poor, for free tuition for all students in public colleges and for extended health care benefits to every American.
Trump, with the very opposite message, called for restrictions to be lifted on business enterprise, for a wall to be built to keep out the unwanted from Mexico, for a halt to Muslim immigration to the United States, and for the scrapping of Obama Care.
Both men won by unprecedented double-digit margins.
It was a shot that was heard around the world. It was not the death of a candidate but a shot to the heart of the OLD ORDER and in that regard we have seen the beginning of a revolution, whether we recognize it or not.
Jubilate.
Ian