30-January-2004, 01:46 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest Ohio
Posts: 77
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Hey!
This gets more interesting by the hour, doesn't it? Too cool...
Astronomers are cosmologists, just as all great cosomological theorists were visual astronomers. I think it's a basic human need to explain what we see in a relative and meaningful way. Those initial and insightful thoughts later go on to be proved by the laws of physics... And those that cannot be proved by physics end up being supported by mathmatics. Humankind continues to reach for this. We need to know that things are a constant.
(hang in there, Tiny... Age is irrelevant.  )
Without these theories, mankind would have never journeyed into space. If you ever have the opportunity to see an old Gemini capsule? You'd understand. These brave men flew into space on a theory... In a soda can! Take one look at an old Apollo capsule, and you will marvel that tiny bit went to the Moon on a theory! Pick up a piece of heat shielding that covers the bottom of the Shuttle, and think it was a cosmoligical theory that made it work. See a bit of solar sail?
And you look into tomorrow.
How far do we reach? Thanks to cosomology we believe... We belive we can fly to Mars, just as we believe Mars is made up same stuff as Earth. We believe we can touch a comet... And we have. These cosomolgical theories are the basis of all we hold to be true - And then we prove it to ourselves.
From the atmospheres on the planets in our own solar system... To the of study red/blue shift in distant galaxies through the eyes of Hubble. It's all there! Just like the cosmologist believed it to be... Quarks, neutrinos, dark matter, gravitational constants... Black holes!
Cosmology cannot be a waste of time -- Because maybe one day they'll figure out just how many licks it really DOES take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootise Pop. (and then we'll by gosh figure out a way to get there and prove it.
Of course, this is just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Grinnin' in OH,
~T
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