Dear John and friends,
you may like to know the latest scientific research reveals that our
universe started in a liquid state, which exists for a tiny fraction
of a second after the Big Bang!
This somehow coincide with the Aganna Sutta, in which the Buddha
talked about "one world of water" ... "at one time"!
Although, more commonly, people interpreted this to match an earlier
scientific theory that life began in the ocean.
It will be interesting if we can have a detailed study of Aganna
Sutta.
References:
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?
siteSect=143&sid=5696818&cKey=1113845722000
http://www.webcastmy.com.my/bodhivision/aganna/lesson3/pt3.htm
metta,
Yong Peng.