A Hydrogen Bomb, For Me, Was Puny

What Differentiates Human From Lower-animal Consciousness Is Time. You Can't Explain The Concept Of "tomorrow" To Your Dog. Our Consciousness Is Dominated By Time - We're Constantly Running Simulations Of The Future. Our Brain Is A Prediction Machine. The Hallmark Of Intelligence, Indeed Of Genius, Is The Number And Complexity Of The Feedback Loops We Use In Predicting The Future.

There Are Many Examples Of Old, Incorrect Theories That Stubbornly Persisted, Sustained Only By The Prestige Of Foolish But Well-connected Scientists... Many Of These Theories Have Been Killed Off Only When Some Decisive Experiment Exposed Their Incorrectness... Thus The Yeoman Work In Any Science, And Especially Physics, Is Done By The Experimentalist, Who Must Keep The Theoreticians Honest.

Sooner Or Later, We Will Face A Catastrophic Threat From Space. Of All The Possible Threats, Only A Gigantic Asteroid Hit Can Destroy The Entire Planet. If We Prepare Now, We Better Our Odds Of Survival. The Dinosaurs Never Knew What Hit Them.

[t]he Yeoman's Work In Any Science, And Especially Physics, Is Done By The Experimentalist, Who Must Keep The Theoreticians Honest.

"did God Have A Mother?" Children, When Told That God Made The Heavens And The Earth, Innocently Ask Whether God Had A Mother. This Deceptively Simple Question Has Stumped The Elders Of The Church And Embarrassed The Finest Theologians, Precipitating Some Of The Thorniest Theological Debates Over The Centuries. All The Great Religions Have Elaborate Mythologies Surrounding The Divine Act Of Creation, But None Of Them Adequately Confronts The Logical Paradoxes Inherent In The Question That Even Children Ask.