If you think that comics are for children, you're fooling yourself. Comics, even back in the 1960s were written by educated people for adults and kids. Some of the writers of comics have backgrounds in science and literature that would make Jeopardy contestants scratch their heads. I've been reading comics since the mid 1970s and I learned a LOT about science and literature. In fact, I was reading a collection of superhero stories from 1965-1966 DC comics this week and learned a new word, and an alternative (now discounted) theory of the universe. Here's what I learned!>>
FROM Green lantern comics #42, in 1966,
The writer Gardner Fox, did a story featuring superheroine, Zatanna, who is a magician. She uses magic to fight crime.
In the story, they fought a Warlock in a magical world and the villain spoke the word "Thaumaturgy."
I had NO IDEA what that meant. DO YOU?
DEFINITION: Thaumaturgy is the purported capability of a magician to work magic or other paranormal events or a saint to perform miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking. A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturgus", "thaumaturge", "thaumaturgist" or "miracle-worker".
A DISCOUNTED ALTERNATE THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE - The same storyline that featured Zatanna and ran through several comics (Hawkman, Atom, Batman, Elongated Man, Green Lantern and the Justice League) also referenced a theory that was tossed around in the 1960s and now discounted.
What is the steady state theory and why is it not accepted? - A cosmological model of a universe which is expanding but has the same density at all times due to the continuous creation of matter. The steady-state theory is based on the perfect cosmological principle, which requires the universe to be the same at all times, as well as in all places. Even if there were some unknown mechanism for producing a blackbody radiation field in the Steady State model, its temperature would have to be constant as a function of redshift as shown by the blue line and these observations reject this model
Instead the origin of the Universe is attributed to the Big Bang. The Big Bang is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today
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