firstcauseargument | Edgar Allan Poe and the Big Bang Theory - Harry Lee Poe and Edward J. Devinney @firstcauseargument | Uploaded August 2012 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
30 October 2009 - Harry Lee Poe's (PhD) and Edward J. Devinney Jr.'s (PhD) Lecture 'Eureka: Edgar Allan Poe's Big Bang Theory and the Power of Imagination'. A little known fact about Edgar Allan Poe is that he had ideas of the universe that are incredibly similar to the Big Bang Theory. In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe introduced the first mystery story ('Murders in the Rue Morgue') with a discussion of the limitations of empiricism and rationalism, insisting that the great breakthroughs come when Imagination mediates the others. He then related the first mystery story to demonstrate how the same empirical data might be explained rationally with a variety of explanations, all of which might be wrong. In 1848, Poe took this line of thought to the extreme with his 150 page essay Eureka in which he argued that the universe expanded from a single primordial atom, that time and space are the same thing, that electro-magnetism and light are related, and that deity must be responsible for such a universe. Poe was dismissed as a lunatic for denying the well established scientific truth of the eternality and infinity of the universe, and Imagination remains in the closet.
30 October 2009 - Harry Lee Poe's (PhD) and Edward J. Devinney Jr.'s (PhD) Lecture 'Eureka: Edgar Allan Poe's Big Bang Theory and the Power of Imagination'. A little known fact about Edgar Allan Poe is that he had ideas of the universe that are incredibly similar to the Big Bang Theory. In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe introduced the first mystery story ('Murders in the Rue Morgue') with a discussion of the limitations of empiricism and rationalism, insisting that the great breakthroughs come when Imagination mediates the others. He then related the first mystery story to demonstrate how the same empirical data might be explained rationally with a variety of explanations, all of which might be wrong. In 1848, Poe took this line of thought to the extreme with his 150 page essay Eureka in which he argued that the universe expanded from a single primordial atom, that time and space are the same thing, that electro-magnetism and light are related, and that deity must be responsible for such a universe. Poe was dismissed as a lunatic for denying the well established scientific truth of the eternality and infinity of the universe, and Imagination remains in the closet.
