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Cosmology is sometimes pooh-poohed as more philosophy than science. It asks deep questions about nature but provides unsatisfyingly vague answers. The cosmos may be 12 billion years old, but it could be as much as 15 billion. The stars began to shine 100 million years after the Big Bang, or maybe it's a billion. "Our ideas," acknowledges Max Tegmark of the University of Pennsylvania, "have been kind of wobbly...
...about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...
...SUGGESTING YOUR SISTER IS A CONTROL FREAK? LINDA: To Loretta, if you drape your coat over a chair, the order of the cosmos comes to a screeching halt...
More than 100 students, family and colleagues gathered yesterday evening to congratulate Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70 on his recently published book, The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos...
Helen H. Vendler, Porter university professor Whatever any one of us knows is so small in view of everything that is to be known in the cosmos. What you do know is a tiny drop of knowledge. One is always confronted by the ocean of things you don’t know vis à vis the things you do know