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Muito se fala de cientistas e suas descobertas, mas o quanto rende trabalhar com a Ciência? Para quem ainda não tinnha pensado nisso ou simplesmente tem curiosidade, uma organização fez um levantamento das médias salariais de várias categorias profissionais ligadas à atividade científica nos EUA. As tabelas estão aqui: http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencesalaries.html.

Parece que os físicos estão em alta. Tão em alta que já até escreveram sua versão para a Bíblia, com trechos disponíveis no mesmo site, do qual transcrevo a primeira parte do que seria a Gênese. Convenhamos que é uma forma criativa de divulgar as proezas dessa nova casta de iniciados.

The first book of Creation, called

Genesis I: The Planck Epoch

In the beginning,
the World was without form and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

– The Holy Bible

In the "Beginning," there was no beginning. Before the Planck time, there was no time and there was no space. The Universe was in a quantum state with wild fluctuations. (The hummingbird’s wings flap fast and are invisible.) What one might have called spacetime was incomprehensible. The quantum Universe was a trillion-trillion worlds. Potential worlds were bubbling forth and were evaporating like unto the waters in a boiling pot. And tunnelling and fluctuations moved thy proto-World among these worlds. And quantum gravity wreaked havoc. The waves of gravity were everywhere. The Universe was like a thousand knots.

Near the "Beginning," there was almost nothing. The Universe was unimaginably hot and small. And somehow from this senseless void would emerge thy World. And somehow from this emptiness there would emerge a time and space. Thy Universe would soon conceive itself. And from the almost nothingness would soon come all.