In the wake of the newly-released Laniakea paper I was inspired. 😀
Humbled and in awe
Just from the images he sawOf the pearls of light
Making way through the dark and voidA sign, though abstract
Reminding him to not detractThose mindful can tell
الله أعلى و أجل
https://alpha.app.net/riyad/post/17558297
Neil deGrasse Tyson is discussing his book “The Pluto Files” … basically recounting a few thousand years of finding things in the night sky, naming them and building an understanding of what they are … case in point: (now dwarf planet 😉 ) Pluto … including his hypothesis on why Americans in particular get so worked up about Pluto not being a planet any more. 😀
Science is not about what’s true or what might be true; science is about what people with originally diverse view points can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.
Dr. Lee Smolin on the panel of the 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
APOD picked up a nice cartoon by PHD comics explaining the search for the Higgs Boson at the LHC.
