Three Japanese physicists theorized on the origin of the universe so loudly that they received a Nobel Prize in Physics for their guesses. Call me stupid, but a theory is nothing more than a best guess.

The three physicists are Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute; Makoto Kobayashi at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture; and Toshihide Maskawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University’s Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics.

They all guessed that “elementary particles such as quarks, which had no mass at the time of the universe’s birth, came to have mass.” Never mind that this is against the most basic scientific laws that you can’t get nothing from nothing.

“Particles and antiparticles were present in the same numbers at the moment the universe emerged.” Never mind again that they theoretically cancel each other out. The guessers gave up on that theory.

So, what’s this have to do with anything? My take is that if the world came from nothing, it’s headed to nothing. What’s the big deal? Let’s get what we can get while we are here. But, if the world is a gift from, shall we say a Creator, then we have been entrusted with a treasure and it requires our best efforts to be good stewards.

Physicists like these three men do nothing to promote care for our planet.

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