This is very beautiful, but let’s not forget that it can be taken several steps backwards. All the material in the recycled butterflies, wolf fur, etc. that is now your body came from the explosion of now-dead stars billions of …
Tag: Astrophysics
We Are Stardust
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics. We’ve have known a great deal about the nature of matter for 150 years, but we had exactly zero idea where it all came from.
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Neil de Grasse Tyson and U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert On the Solar Eclipse, Geoengineering
Speaking on a televised interview show featuring Neil de Grasse Tyson, Texas Republican U.S. representative Louie Gohmert commented on the recent solar eclipse, asserting that it is the changes in the moon’s orbit around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbit …
Belief in God Is Not a Choice
I find it very hard to believe that Camus (author of the profoundly existential and nihilistic short novel “The Stranger”) said this. It is, of course, reminiscent of Pascal, four centuries earlier, known for his “wager,” i.e., that a rational …
A Couple of Thoughts on a Scientist’s Birthday
It’s the 59th birthday of American astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, whose most recent and aptly named book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry was published earlier this year.
