34 Soon, we were back in Merle’s car, and headed over to what was becoming the “usual” spot, behind the mall by the dumpster. When we got there, a truly scraggly-looking man was there, on his bicycle, peering into the dumpster. As we approached, he reached down into the dumpster and pulled out […]
1 Prior to my Enlightening, I actually believed that scientists knew just about everything there is to know about the universe. It never even occurred to me that many great thinkers throughout history believed the same thing, quite mistakenly, in the context of their own times. From the brilliant scholars of the Enlightenment and Renaissance, […]
In my post from Jan 30, 2019 (“Dark Energy is Getting Stronger”), I referenced new data out of the University of Florence and Durham University in England, via NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton spacecraft, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which pointed to an accelerating rate of expansion for our universe. […]