The Newer Testament

In the beginning there were no words, 

And then we made words, 

And with these words we began writing, 

And we wrote both stories and non-fiction.

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Limitations

This is not the 3rd installment of a trilogy,

Just a mere check-in on some of the all-time hardest questions,

Some of which have been given questionable answers,

Questionables tending to never dare be contended with much less questioned,

A check-in just hopin’ to keep still-open the questions that tend to end discussions.

So this has nothing to do with Testament 1 that premiered in 100 BC'ish,

That took about 1,000 years to make - starting around the year negative-1100,

By whittling tons of written submissions under consideration down to 1 best collection,

And nothing to do with its sequel Testament 2 that premiered 200 years later in 100 AD'ish,

Made much quicker starting only 50 years prior - sometime around the year plus-50,

By editing down a long list of contending written works to a final greatest hits list,

No this is a totally unrelated piece from the year 2076,

But much like those two fantastically successful works,

Like them - this is a collection of top thinkers’ thoughts from throughout the ages,

And also like them - about Ethics and Science, 

And thirdly like - as in multiple formats such as narratives stories poems and lists,

But this is where any similarities to a bible come to an end, 

So this is not the 3rd one following Testament 1: God’s Word, and Testament 2: Jesus’ Walk,

It’s been 2,076 years since Mary a teen virgin gave birth to Jesus Christ in Part 2,

Much that was certain now’s a fallen curtain compared to that 1st Christmas back in 1 AD,

This is no bible by definition as bibles answer unanswered questions on good authority,

And this here does not answer any still-open questions it only frames and poses them,

This will fail anybody wanting still-unanswered questions to be answered with total certainty.

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This all said admittedly if this were the 3rd installment of the trilogy following

Testament 1: God’s Word, and

Testament 2: Jesus’ Walk,

It’s name would be -

Testament 3: Our Selves,  

Which may be better,

Maybe less tropey sounding than Testament 3: We the People, 

I don’t know,

I’m still bouncing it off others that play devil's advocate well,

Still no matter the naming whether ‘We the People’ or ‘Our Selves’,

They're 2 different titles with 2 different wordings that mean exactly the same thing,

I think,

Therefore I am still bouncing it off good arguers to see what they think,

Do you also see these 2 choices - Our Selves and We the People - synonymously?

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She puts down her new favorite American Girl doll. Picks up her favorite new present. Her iPhone 6. And asks, “Hey Siri! Is Santa Claus real?”

Halfway down her first page, Sally finds a link to an article named ‘How to break it to your kids that Santa Claus is not real.’ 

Sally’s eyebrows draw close together making a huge knot at the bridge of her tiny nose.  Scrolling the pages.. More and more links admitting to more of the same bad news.  She’s seen too much. Heartbroken. She throws her phone across the room. It bounces off the fireplace mantle halfway back to her, with a cracked screen. She picks up her now-broken present to investigate the damage she caused to it. Both of her eyes are filled up to the brim with tears that have yet to get heavy enough to drip down her cheeks.

From the kitchen mom announces, “Okay Sally! Time to start getting ready for church!”

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Okay we’re back,

Also - just realized my RV’s solar batteries are running super low. But. Eh,

Let’s keep it going,

Genesis

And then Galileo gave us an eye up into the heavens… 

And that telescope had an objective lens…

And that objective lens had an aperture…  

And that aperture gathered up 180 more times the light… 

180 more times light than could be gathered by our own naked eyes… 

And that aperture gathered so much light it became a portal… 

And that portal took us to the farthest edges of our Universe… 

On the origin or coming into being of something, 

To the hardest to answer questions dating all the way back to the beginning,

Let’s start by admitting,

Admitting to the questions whose answers remain stuck at the stretch of the 7th inning,

Because admission to limitations is the price of admission for solving any problem,

This applies to anyone that might be suffering from QDD - Question Deficit Disorder,

And also to any scientist who might blindly believe himself - Confirmation Bias-itis,

And mostly anybody infected with the contagious and spreadable - Dogmatism Virus,

To date we still have no way to either falsify or validate any answers to these 3 questions -

1. What made matter and set it into motion?

2. When was and what caused the inflection point from inorganic to organic-living matter?

3. Is to know right vs. wrong a function of a soul or the brain's wiring and wetware? 

And beyond these 3 there also,

Remains more hard questions still far away from any answers reaching any consensus, 

But these 3 do seem to be the biggest 3 with lines in the sand that are most contentious, 

And now for some good news, 

Beyond the Hard 3 - we figured out a ton on the origin & coming to be of lotsa other things, 

In fact we spotted a major timeline issue in Testament 1's very opening scene,

A jump-cut of astronomical proportions - here’s the two related testimonies in question,

• The Information - the Universe is 6,000 years young,

• All In Formation - he created it and had everything set in 6 days flat,

1 silly little question having nothing to do with it would wind up blowing this testimony up,

The wick that was lit was 1 man’s 1 otherwise seemingly benign and unrelated question,

The unwitting strike of the match was struck in 1638 when somebody asked -

• What is the speed of light

Galileo was the 1st person ever on record to have ever asked this question,

But spoiler alert,

The question was answered 38 years after Galileo asked it which was 34 years after his death,

Silly question meaning asked in 1638 whence the Witch Trials were still peak criminal science,

Back when 99% of us thought that light might be air that glows in the dark except at night 

If we ever even thought about light at all or as anything other than that it helped us see,

We’d need to be able to unlearn everything to be able to imagine to actually see, 

Just how insanely imaginative that Galileo had to be,

To ask back in 1638 if light might be in motion,

Not to mention even ask the speed of it, 

Crazy to think,

But shadows and Sunsets caught his attention,

Galileo would think and wonder and ask -

I mean sound travels - right?

So might it be right to think that light might also be in motion?

I know that sound travels because I see the cannon's explosion before I hear it,

And if the sound takes time to travel through on or thru the air to reach my ears -

Does it not follow that visuals also take time to travel - on or thru the light to reach my eyes?

Even if it's too fast for my eyes to see it?

And furthermore come to think of it,

Given that I always see the explosion a solid split-moment before I hear it? 

Am I not bound to guess that light must travel faster than sound?

And if so just how much faster might it actually go?

He never got the answer much less could've guessed that his random light-speed question,

Would wind up implicating the still yet-known astronomically huge jump-cut in Testament 1,

By prompting light-speed related questions-answers over the next 300-plus years, 

Although don’t get it wrong,

While still alive the spry old Galileo still paid 1 helluva price for his mad curious imagination,

For helping spot / correct a totally different topic’s flaw - how our Solar System works,

Corrected by promoting a controversy-causing theory of his colleague Copernicus,

That theory being that we go around the Sun -

Which was mightily against the then-common wisdom that the Sun goes around us,

Controversial because this would remove - Our Selves -,

This would cease - We the People - from being the center of the Universe,

For this unthinkable crime of heresy which was highly against the law,

In both the letter and the spirit, 

Galileo spent the last 4 years of his life under house arrest until his death in 1642,

But putting this correct theory that placed the Sun at the center of our Solar System aside -

Back to Galileo’s speed-of-light question that would blow up the entire 6,000-year time-line,

Blowing to high heavens the related testimony from the very opening scene in Testament 1,

Here’s how the correction of that astronomical jump-cut of our Universe’s age came to be,

Galileo’s speed-of-light question was an unwitting strike of a match that lit a wick,

A wick that led to a series of 4 bombs,

The 1st 3 bombs of which set off the 4th and biggest bomb,

The grand finale 4th bomb’s explosion exacting the age of our Universe’s existence,

Here’s the 3 factors that combined to answer the age question with a Big Bang -

1. Speed

1675 - Speed of Light is Figured out

2. Unit of Measure 

1838 - “Light-year” unit of measurement of distance is invented

3. The Target Endpoint of the Measurement 

1965 - Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is discovered / located

3 specific bits of newer information all brought together but all 3 brought from - 

3 different peoples,

3 different places,

And 3 different time periods in history specifically 3 of our 4 prior centuries, 

3 different variables begotten that made the needed cosmic mathematics possible,

The Speed of Light as in how fast it goes,

The Lightyear Measurement as in the distance that light travels in one year precisely, 

The Target Endpoint as in our Cosmic Horizon the farthest our telescopes can see,

These 3 answers illuminated something once so blind to everybody - that nobody -

Not even Galileo himself could have envisioned what types of things would come into view,  

Like,

Light can be used like a ruler to measure something on top of your desk in inches,

But more like a yardstick that would measure the desk itself by foot,

But still more like a tape measure that’s further suited to measure the room-dimensions,

But way bigger like an odometer in a car measuring miles-driven, 

But biggest - the Universe is measured by units of measure named Lightyears,

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And we’re back,

And guys I’m sorry my RV’s Solar is just about to hit 0% I’m going to have to run through this,

So to the 4th and final in that series of bombs, 

To the wick that was lit by Galileo’s unwitting strike of that match on that date back in 1638,

To the Big Bang –

4. 2012 – The Age of our Universe is pinpointed

Okay – I’m sorry everybody we just hardly got started here but I need to wrap this. I’ve got maybe 3 minutes till my entire RV’s solar dies. Poor planning on my part. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of The Newer Podcast. I’m guessing we’ll have to pick up an episode we’ll need to name The Newer Testament part 2 – or would that be The Newer Newer Testament? 

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Okay, let’s wrap this up -

Our Universe’s existence is 13.8 Billion years old on the nose,

Based on the Big Bang having occurred 13.8 Billion years ago,

Based on the distance to our Cosmic Horizon which is located 13.8 Billion Light Years away -

Well - actually,

Our Cosmic Horizon is actually located 46.5 Billion Light Years away, 

But we don’t have time to get in to Cosmic Inflation and Expansion right now,

Our Cosmic Horizon being the farthest our telescopes can see,

A 13.8B LY Visual Time Machine view of the past - adjusted for Inflation and Expansion 

Our Cosmic Horizon being the CMB - the CMB being,

The Cosmic Microwave Background fallout that persists from the Big Bang explosion,

The Big Bang explosion and resulting fallout of which Galileo could've never predicted,

When he unwittingly lit its wick back in 1638 with his silly light-speed question,

This has been The Newer Podcast - please don’t forget to hit like and subscribe - gotta go.

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