Word: explains
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...Subversive." you muse. But let us explain our logic: we're simply trying to keep you on your toes, you see. The ides of march are approaching, and you must beware them. You can't trust anyone come this time of year: that means no assumptions, kiddo...
Havel, for one, is a strong critic of the universality of modern science. At a speech in Philadelphia's Independence Hall last summer, Havel said, "Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less...
Havel said that because scientific observation could not be done objectively, science can only mislead in its attempts to explain the definitive nature of the universe...
Neutrinos with mass might help solve the dark-matter problem and thus provide support for the inflation theory. But in some ways that would just make the crisis in cosmology worse. The more dark matter there is in the universe, the harder it is to explain the new findings made by Freedman's group about the age of the cosmos. When they say the universe is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old, their vagueness reflects uncertainty about how much matter the cosmos contains. If there's a lot, as inflation suggests, its gravity would be slowing down...
...undiscovered planets whose gravity was causing the anomalies-sort of the Cold Dark Matter of the time. Sure enough, Neptune finally appeared in their telescopes. But the other planet, Vulcan, never did materialize. In the end, said Spergel, it took the theory of general relativity to explain Mercury's odd behavior...