Ow... Ouch... OWIE!

    Sometimes, science just hurts me.  Badly. 

    Take this story, for example:

It may be possible to glimpse before the supposed beginning of time into the universe prior to the Big Bang, researchers now say.

Unfortunately, any such picture will always be fuzzy at best due to a kind of "cosmic forgetfulness."

    Now, I'm not a genius by any stretch.  In fact, there are moments where tying my shoes can present a such a monstrous intellectual challenge that it's literally all I can do not to drop to the floor, curl up into a tight little bundle, and just whimper and drool until someone comes along and gives me ice-cream to soothe my tortured mind.

    Still, the whole notion of seeing something before time began strikes me as pretty flippin' odd.  I don't know.  Maybe it's because I am the sort of guy who skips through the previews on the DVD's he rents since there's really not much there worth watching in the first place.  So, when it comes to the universe, I just can't understand why someone would want to pick through the huge collection of nothing before it turned into everything (and, when I say everything, keep in mind that I am actually talking about, well, everything). 

-DP