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,ideas.
If this accord can be seen as the doorway it is, if a new level of trust in
common humanity can be held as the highest ethic, hands may find the handle
in unison, and swing the door open. Beyond the doorstep of mutual trust is
the only path to a better life for those touched by this cancerous
conflict.
This much is certain: there are ne~ ideas for solutions outside of the box
of present thinking. One day soon, just perhaps, our fighters may see the
value in longer-term thinking. They might grasp each other's arms as
friends, and even embrace, remembering the common God they share. However
far off such a day may be, they will decide to drop their toys of hatred,
to
rust in the rains of many springs to come. They will grow food and drink
wine together, and begin a new era for their children.
New Observations of Cosmology at the Millennium
There are, in fact, many reasons for people to consider looking at life
with
an interesting new kind of optimistic wonder. In 1999, ~ remarkable debate
has begun to sweep into the view of the public. It is the discussion among
scientists over the accuracy of the Big Bang hypothesis of creation. As
brilliantly argued in Seeing Red (Halton Arp, 1998) and elsewhere, a
century-old debate, 70 years of astronomical observations, and 30 years of
growing anomalies are coming to a head. Those of us who are fascinated by
the advancement of scientific knowledge are now settling down in our
armchairs to watch ,a debate that will ultimately entwine observational
astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, philosophers, and faithful from
every major religion. The Genesis of Western institutional science might be
mistaken.
"I believe the observational evidence has become overwhelming, and the Big
Bang has in reality been toppled. There is now a need to communicate the
new
observations, the connections between objects and the new insights into the
workings of the universe - all the primary obligations of academic
science,"
says Arp, a highly respected scientist whose observations are the growing
subject of intense debate.
Other scientists strongly disagree ,with Arp's views, but there are growing
indications that he is right, and that one of the ,primary bases upon which
the Big Bang hypothesis is hinged - extra-galactic redshift primarily as
the
measure of recessional velocity - is incorrect. Compelling observations
have
been repeated many times, now demonstrating that mysterious objects known as
"quasars" are not in fact the most distant objects in the Universe, some of
which are alleged to be speeding away 'from us at several times the speed of
light. Instead, quasars appear to be ejecta from the nuclei of galaxies
much
closer to us. High-redshift quasars have been observed to be physically
connecied to low-redshift galaxies.
Arps observations go further. Like those of quasars, high redshifts
observed
in the spectra of young galaxies appear to have a cause other than