Tuesday, September 21, 2010

John Updike and the Big Bang

John Updike's poetic and pessimistic view of "Big Bang":

But the fact, discovered by two independent teams of researchers, seemed to be that deep space showed not only no relenting in the speed of the farthest galaxies but instead a detectable acceleration, so that an eventual dispersion of everything into absolute cold and darkness could be confidently predicted. We are riding an aimless explosion to nowhere.

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