Dropping everything to spend years
thinking about cosmology could be called self - indulgent.
«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.
Not exact matches
But when man has felt himself shut in by a strict and inescapable solitude, his
thinking about himself has been deep and fruitful and independent of
cosmology.
«It is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics [of
cosmology]... If [non-Christians] find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions
about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they
think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?
«Other data scientists have been
thinking about the same type of algorithms we need for our
cosmology tools for a long time,» said Jason Rhodes of JPL.
Inflation also revitalized
cosmology, giving theorists like Vilenkin plenty to
think about — and a bit more respectability to boot.
So, I mean none of that makes it impossible that he was also sort of invested in this debate
about world views, I just, I
think it's more like what you said a moment ago, I
think if he heard something, it doesn't have to have been
about astronomy or
cosmology, if he was exposed to something really different or intriguing or fascinating he would incorporate little bits of it into what he was working on.