29-January-2004, 10:26 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest Ohio
Posts: 77
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Greetings!
Although my given choice is observational astronomy, I can never forget in the deepest sense that every distant galaxy, quasar, or star cluster I view has happened in the past. If I witness a supernova, I am seeing the supernova as it occured whatever amount of light years it took for me to optically identify it. Thereby I have faith in comoslogy... The supernova is abiding by the laws of the Universe and I know and understand that I am witnessing a past event.
Astronomy, cosmology, physics, mathmatics... All of these walk hand in hand. How much more beautiful the visible Universe seemed to me in that one shining moment when I grasped the concept of String Theory! My galaxy sings in B-flat... And before my eyes is a symphony. Tell my why polarized light behaves in a particular way? And I will show its' proof in the night sky. Explain to me quantum entanglement, and I will watch Jupiter rotate... Knowing that as one side of the "ball" turns east? The other turns west simulanteously.
I am not a person of brains... But one of branes.
Is cosmology as waste of time? (hmmm... that's a "relative" question, isn't it?  ) I can't image the night skies I so love to look at without the thoughts of Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg and even (gasp!) Hawking. What I learn through comosmology teachings and theories, be it right or wrong...
Makes them stars seem ten times more beautiful.
Rock on,
~T
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