Or we aren't catching up with anything. Everything has been constant; the same, nothing. If it's a question of metaphors then metaphors simply emerge and have no catching up to do.

It's interesting how thinking about gravitational waves, black holes, singularity, 'multi-verses', quantum mechanics... leads me to the realization that I've been having my existential priorities all wrong, or probably mixed up. Science alas, now more than ever seems to be meeting my innermost spiritual needs and questions.

The wars between belief systems are now obsolete. Philosophy has changed character with the confirmation of the gravitational waves, 'life' has changed dramatically. Especially 'my life'.

ION, it seems one of my beliefs is that the more I talk about myself, my experience, then the more my audience gains or is spurred to act on their own experience. But at least by saying it, I have changed it. Or I have began to change it. I hope you get my drift @Wakanyugi.

but these scientists need to explain where that original matter that blew up during the big bang came from! just how far back can they go?

I am not sure they can explain. The direction Science is taking seems to show that the questions of 'what...' or 'where...' are simply not answerable, unless as theoretical postulates, in a universe where none of the things we take for granted seem real. A sample:

- String theory - the basic nature of reality is not particles or waves but strings, whose vibration creates the patterns we perceive as objects...
- The Universe as a hologram - none of the things we perceive are real. They are projections of....
- Quantum theory - time does not exist, neither does space, nor particles/waves etc unless you 'the observer decrees it so' (you create your own reality)

And now we have gravity waves. Remember that gravity is not a 'thing' according to Einstein but the effect of space/time curving in the presence of mass or acceleration. So what exactly did LIGO see?

Illusion upon illusion. Is it any wonder that the language of Scientists is sounding increasingly religious?

Big science does not exist. If it did it would answer that.

You are asking where for example, a black hole comes from. The answer I have is; from another black hole. In the beginning there's 'singularity' and so is the end also 'singularity'.

Explanation is about 'multiplicity' a comparison of symbols and metaphor; singularity is beyond explanation.

'Big science', can only get to equal 'singularity'. It can't go beyond it.