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Breakpoint

The Point: Our Connection to the Cosmos

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

"There's some order in this chaotic universe."

Those are the words of Noam Libeskind a postdoctoral researcher at Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. He was referring to recent breakthrough findings in astrophysics.

Scientists have long thought that the entire universe is interconnected by a "cosmic web" of dark matter and gas structures. What Libeskind and his team found was that these colossal filaments are rotating, which makes them "the largest objects known to have angular momentum." 

In Libeskind's words, "they're not just swarming randomly. There's actually an ordered motion to them."

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There's some order in this chaotic universe. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.8

Those are the words of Nome-Libiskeen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics

0:10.4

Potsdam. He was referring to a recent finding in astrophysics. Scientists have long thought that

0:15.3

the entire universe is interconnected by a cosmic web of dark matter and gas structures. What Leibiskeen

0:20.6

and his team found was that these colossal filaments are rotating.

0:23.6

It makes them the largest objects known to have angular momentum.

0:26.6

In Leibiskin's words, they're not just swarming randomly.

0:29.6

There's actually an ordered motion to them.

0:32.6

Cutting edge astrophysics research like this might be over most of our heads.

0:36.6

But the awe of finding

0:38.2

order in the universe is familiar to anyone who's looked closely at a flower or at the night sky.

0:44.4

The psalmist put it this way, the heavens declare the glory of God. And though they don't use words,

0:49.6

their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. For the

0:54.6

Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

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