The Universe Is The Way It Is,

It Really Is The Most Poetic Thing I Know About Physics: You Are All Stardust.

The Root Cause Of The Looming Energy Problem - And The Key To Easing Environmental, Economic And Religious Tensions While Improving Public Health - Is To Address The Unending, And Unequal, Growth Of The Human Population. And The One Proven Way To Reduce Fertility Rates Is To Empower Young Women By Educating Them.

The Illusion Of Purpose And Design Is Perhaps The Most Pervasive Illusion About Nature That Science Has To Confront On A Daily Basis.

Celebrate Our Brief Moment In The Sun

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.