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When Kids Look Up To Great Scientists The Way They Do To Great Musicians And Actors, Civilization Will Jump To The Next Level

Cosmology Is Among The Oldest Subjects To Captivate Our Species. And It’s No Wonder. We’re Storytellers, And What Could Be More Grand Than The Story Of Creation?

Evidence In Support Of General Relativity Came Quickly. Astronomers Had Long Known That Mercury’s Orbital Motion Around The Sun Deviated Slightly From What Newton’s Mathematics Predicted. In 1915, Einstein Used His New Equations To Recalculate Mercury’s Trajectory And Was Able To Explain The Discrepancy, A Realization He Later Described To His Colleague Adrian Fokker As So Thrilling That For Some Hours It Gave Him Heart Palpitations.

I've Seen Children's Eyes Light Up When I Tell Them About Black Holes And The Big Bang.

Physicists Have Come To Realize That Mathematics, When Used With Sufficient Care, Is A Proven Pathway To Truth.