Cosmology

myth or science?

Hannes Alfvén

pp. 1-14

in: Wolfgang Yourgrau, Allen D. Breck (eds), Cosmology, history, and theology, Berlin, Springer, 1977

Abstract

Cosmology began when man began to ask: What is beyond the horizon and what happened before the earliest event I can remember? The method of finding out was to ask those who had traveled very far, and they reported what they had seen and also what people they had met far away had told them about still more remote regions. Similarly, grandfather told about his young days and what his grandfather had told him and so on. But the information became increasingly uncertain the more remote the regions and the times.