Grasping this bewildering universe requires science, religion,
and culture  After a century of concrete advances, cosmology has
become speculative again. Religious and cultural insights can
help put it back on track    • By Nidhal GuessoumSpecial To
Weekend Review   • Published: 21:30 November 29, 2012   • Gulf
News  This past century, scientists came a long, long way in
figuring out this amazing Universe of ours. While the old Earth-
centred cosmology had been thrown away for several centuries,
the bewildering scale and contents of the Universe were far from
fully realised and fathomed.  At the start of the 20th century,
we knew that cosmic distances were billions of times anything we
measure on Earth, and we knew that the Solar System was “old”,
but it wasn’t until the 1920s that we learnt that the Universe
had to be measured in billions of light-years (each light-year
being 10 trillion kilometres), that the “observable” part of the
universe alone contained one hundred billion galaxies, and our
Milky Way gal