Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.
Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough. - Eric Chaisson
Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
- Eric Chaisson
Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but … - Eric Chaisson
Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but …
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic. - Eric Chaisson
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all… - Eric Chaisson
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all…
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout… - Eric Chaisson
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout…
Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped. - Eric Chaisson
Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.
Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe. - Eric Chaisson
Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty… - Eric Chaisson
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty…
Given enough time, even evolution evolves. - Eric Chaisson
Given enough time, even evolution evolves.
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