Big Bang Soup

According to the Big Bang model, the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. A common and useful analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread. General relativistic cosmologies, however, do not actually ascribe any ‘physicality’ to space. (Wikipedia)

It is now a fact that on the 10th of September, the count down will begin at CERN, after 10 years of research, and costing 6 billion Euros, for the operation of the Large Hadron Collider – LHC.

You may read some more information here.

See this link to see how huge this is,

and if you are interested in watching this live, it will begin at 09:00 Geneva time.

It seems that the reporters are very worried about this project and they asked a Greek Scientist, who is taking part in this project if we should be concerned if anything goes wrong, the scientist was very reassuring that there is no possibility about this.

I am also worried as my younger son is now working at CERN. Last summer he worked as a summer student for three months, but this year he is working on a regular basis. He also reassured me that there is nothing to worry about but I am keeping my fingers crossed.

The reporter asked a lot of questions and then she asked:

Reporter: What was there before the Big Bang?

Scientist: It’s not easy to describe but I would say that the universe was like a “soup”. (The essential idea is that the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past and continues to expand to this day. Then came the Big Bang and the universe began to form).

Did you know that the World Wide Web was invented at CERN and now the Grid will replace the internet, again invented at CERN?

I was not planning in making soup today but I was cooking fish, to make fish mayonnaise. After this conversation I was inspired and tried to recreate the universe by making my own soup and guess what? The first solid things that formed after the big bang were two tomatoes, one potato, one carrot, one onion and a sprig of celery. Finally, the stars appeared. I wonder if the croutons are the galaxies, the black pepper, star dust and what is the parsley…?

Although it is still hot in Athens and the air condition is on all day long, the soup was so delicious that we all had seconds.

Fish vegetable Soup with pasta

Ingredients

• 2 tomatoes, peeled
• 1 potato
• 1 carrot
• a sprig of Celery
• 1 onion
• 1 spoonful of parsley
• 1 spoonful of olive oil
• 2 spoonfuls of lemon juice
• 1 cup of pasta star shaped
• Fish stock and leave a few pieces of fish meat as well
• Croutons

Directions

After boiling the fish for fifteen minutes, remove and drain the stock. Place the vegetables in the stock, you do not need to cut them, add salt and simmer until they become soft.

Puree, add the olive oil and lemon juice. Finally add the pasta and cook for 15 minutes.

Prepare croutons with 1 spoonful of olive oil in a non stick frying pan.

Serve on top of the soup with some parsley and freshly ground black pepper.

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