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...expert on the stars, Professor of Astronomy Robert Kirshner here illuminates the finer points of astrology for FM-dissecting his personal horoscope, contemplating why so many people believe in theirs, and taking on a tarot card reader at the other end of a psychic hotline...
...Starring: Julie Rattey, Jason McNeely, Peter Richards, Bilqis Hijjas, Reihan Salam, Paul Monteleoni, Jessica Kirshner...
...answer is that probably nothing will happen. Computer difficulties aside, New Year's Eve 2000 will be just another day. As Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner points out, "If the universe is 15 billion years old, that's a million millennia. What's the big deal?" The danger in our societal emphasis on the coming millennium is that as we spend so much time measuring and acknowledging the passage of time, we begin to ignore what it is we're doing in that time...
...looked at very distant supernovae, and that's where we saw evidence for the acceleration of the universe," Kirshner said...
...Hubble constant and the acceleration of the universe are both necessary to estimate the age of the universe, Kirshner said...