Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SCIENCE: What Is the Cosmos Made...
Over the coming decade, Alcock and others believe, this collective ignorance may at last be dispelled. Small bands of determined researchers are embarking on elaborate hunts for the hidden side of the cosmos. Some, using telescopes, are taking aim at the dark halo that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going...
...making soup, and you add a little salt, and it doesn't taste right, so you add a little pepper." Still, in the confounding world of astrophysics, the simplest and most elegant theories often fail, and there is no reason to assume that the recipe for the cosmos would be bland...
...Pope's speech was the latest episode in the age-old struggle to reconcile science and religion. The year's most intriguing book about God was produced not by theologians but by 60 world-class scientists, 24 Nobel prizewinners among them. Cosmos, Bios, Theos gives their thoughts on the Deity and the origin of the universe and of life on earth. For instance, the co- editor, Yale physicist Henry Margenau, concludes that there is "only one convincing answer" for the intricate laws that exist in nature: creation by an omnipotent, omniscient God. While many scientists are skeptics or are still...
...does not compete with his splendid talking heads. All of Hawking's friends, relatives and colleagues are located in rooms that look real but are in fact stage settings. There is practical reason for this: controlled lighting. But there is a metaphorical reason too. Each setting is a cosmos, familiar looking as the stars at night, but reimagined, just as mathematicians and astronomers reimagine the universe with their equations. By forcing us to see the space around them, Morris also makes us imagine them moving freely through...