Lighted Dark Space Affirms Bang! The Complete History of the Universe

Summary: Lighted dark space asserts The Lure of the Skies introduction to Bang! The Complete History of the Universe by Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott.

Bang! co-authors Chris Lintott, Sir Patrick Moore and Brian May at AstroFest 2007; United Kingdom, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007: Steve Elliott (jabberwock), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Lighted dark space abounds for admirers of The Lure of the Skies, as introductory chapter to the fourth, 2012 edition of Bang! The Complete History of the Universe and as night-time activity.

Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, respective specialists in the zodiak dust cloud, the Moon and galactic formation and evolution, begin Bang! with Sun-like stars. The three co-authors correlate coordinated, five-decade analytical and observational competence with current computer capabilities and with the Hubble Space Telescope data collection beyond the Earth's atmosphere. Edwin Hubble (Nov. 20, 1889-Sept. 28, 1953) and George Gamow (March 4, 1904-Aug. 19, 1968) respectively described an expanding universe and a universe with a birthdate.

Hermann Bondi (Nov. 1, 1919-Sept. 10, 2005), Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920-June 22, 2004) and Fred Hoyle (June 24, 1915-Aug. 20, 2001) elaborated a steady-state universe.

Cosmic microwave background furnished Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) and Robert Woodrow Wilson (born Jan. 10, 1936) with the universe's big-banged, non-steady state birthdate.

The universe's big-banged birth 13.7 billion years ago generated our 8,000-mile (12,000-kilometer) diameter Earth 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 kilometers) from our dwarf-star Sun 4.6 billion years ago. Three billion to 9.1 billion years after its big-banged birth the changing universe had the respectively oldest and youngest of our Milky Way's 100,000,000,000 Sun-like stars. The 186,000-mile (300,000-kilometer) speed of light per second, somewhat less than the 250,000-mile (400,000-kilometer) Earth-Moon distance, increments to the 6,000,000,000,000-mile (9,600,000,000,000-kilometer) speed of light per year.

Lighted dark space juggles the constellation Orion's cool-red, 186,000,000-mile (300,000,000-kilometer) diameter Betelgeuse and white-hot, 65,000,000-mile (105,000,000-kilometer) diameter Rigel, 640 and 860 light-years from our intermediate-yellow Sun.

Light-years kindle astronomical knowledge of space distances, not space times, with Sirius, brightest night-sky star, 8.6 light-years from, and 26 times more powerful than, our Sun.

Earthlings in 2012 look at light that left the Pole Star Polaris, 400 light-years away, the year before William Shakespeare's death (April 23?, 1564-April 23, 1616). Light moved from Rigel three years after the Second (Dec. 1, 1145-June 29, 1149) Crusade and from the universe's remotest visible objects 12-plus billion years ago. Co-author Chris Lintott of the Department of Physics and of New College, Oxford University, notes light from the early universe's smaller galaxies 6 billion light-years away.

Imaginary, year-encapsulated timescales offer 4.6-billion-year-old Earth's birth in lighted dark space Jan. 1, primitive life early May, fish mid-November, terrestrials end November and reptiles early December.

Those timescales present mammals succeeding dinosaurs Dec. 15 and ape-men the morning, humans the last hour and Jesus (6 B.C.E.?-29 C.E.?) the last minute Dec. 31.

Time ever-existing without beginnings or endings queues up, or time 13.7 billion years ago queued up, atoms and molecules for earthly existence 9.1 billion years later. Mathematical equations reveal time, non-existent before the Big Bang, as the fourth coordinate to latitude, longitude and miles/meters above sea level on the big-banged universe's Earth. Time, something relative to the specific situation, serves as no absolute, reliable standard for sending light signals simultaneously between Earth and Proxima Centauri 4.243 light-years away.

The theory of the Big Bang that turned on lighted dark space 13.7 billion years ago turns out predictions that thus far test true through observations.

Co-authors Brian May, Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott signed copies of their book, Bang! The Complete History of the Universe, first published in 2006, at AstroFest 2007; Friday, Feb. 9, 2007: Steve Elliott (jabberwock), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Bang! co-authors Chris Lintott, Sir Patrick Moore and Brian May at AstroFest 2007; United Kingdom, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007: Steve Elliott (jabberwock), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lintott,_Moore,_May.jpg#mw-jump-to-license; Steve Elliott (jabberwock), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabberwock/398090286/

Co-authors Brian May, Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott signed copies of their book, Bang! The Complete History of the Universe, first published in 2006, at AstroFest 2007; Friday, Feb. 9, 2007: Steve Elliott (jabberwock), CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jabberwock/398089176/

For further information:

Lintott, Chris; Brian May; and Sir Patrick Moore. "A Story of Astronomical Importance." New York Times Blog: Across the Universe. March 5, 2007.
Available @ https://acrosstheuniverse.blogs.nytimes.com/author/chris-lintott-brian-may-sir-patrick-moore/

May, Brian; Patrick Moore; and Chris Lintott. 2012. Bang! The Complete History of the Universe. London UK: Carlton Books Limited.