Much remains unknown

Re: “Hell bound,” Letter, July 15.

Cameron Gall may understand the universe back to the Big Bang, but scientists don’t.

Scientists now think the visible universe comprises just five per cent of existence, while dark matter accounts for 27 per cent and dark energy accounts for 68 per cent. What do you think the adjective “dark” tells you about what scientists know about the other 95 per cent of the universe?

Recent evidence indicates massive black holes may have existed from the beginning at the centre of every galaxy. Nothing is known about what happens inside black holes.

Scientists have recently observed and manipulated quantum entanglement — the ghostly, instantaneous effect matter has on other matter, unlimited by the speed of light. The discovery of a Higgs Boson, called the God particle by some because it “explains” mass and gravity, explains nothing about the source of the interactions between, or lack thereof, and nature of, the fundamental particles and forces.

What is the Big Bang and what existed before it, led up to it, or triggered it? And what is causing the universe’s expansion to accelerate? Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest scientist of all time, believed in God.

Science does not rule out the existence of God. In fact, recent discoveries open the door wider to the existence of something as yet unfathomable. Gall should stick to whatever his business is, which is definitely not science or informed, civil debate.

Mike Priaro, Calgary