Three lectures were given by three scientists from overseas: Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu
talked about cosmology explaining how the universe began and how it will be; Prof. Ewine van Dishoeck talked about the exploration of chemical substances in the universe to find out the origin of life; and Dr. Thijis de Graauw talked about the ALMA project with its mechanism and the current status of construction.
«What I learned from them, and from thinking so much about an experiment like that, are new ways to
think about the cosmology problem,» Jacobson says.
Wow, for a TV personality and Mechancial engineer to feel that they are in any position to decide what is best to
teach about Cosmology to our children is quite amazing to me.
Whitehead himself was quite
explicit about cosmology: «The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
Even as a kid, growing up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Sagan realized that the Bible, often advertised as perfect truth, revealed far
less about cosmology than any high school geology text.
Now, that's actually rather important info for our current
theories about cosmology (i.e. how the universe progressed from the Big Bang up into its current observed state).
«Since First Light 20 years ago, Art Wolfe made fundamental
discoveries about cosmology and the early universe using Keck Observatory's telescopes and instruments, which led to important understandings about how elements, stars and galaxies form,» said Keck Observatory Director, Taft Armandroff.
SA: In the past few years string theorists have started
thinking about cosmology, in particular this dark energy that seems to be making galaxies spread apart faster over time.
Funny stuff these religious people... got all the time in the world to study the Bible, but too lazy to
read about cosmology or take a science class.
Dropping everything to spend years thinking
about cosmology could be called self - indulgent.
Happily, after my talk
about cosmology the situation completely reversed.