![]() Lastly, it is our own judgement whether we deem something bad, sad or negative, or the opposite. All in all, if you are more sad than happy, Faye, I would like to take this chance and try to encourage you to see the bright side (of almost anything) by means of this little paragraph. I could enumerate knowledge of mine that did not take away from the awe and admiration, but rather add to it. at least to me (and, may I say, I am not religious)! It might be that, the less we understand of it, the more we're intimidated by it, but not necessarily so, or not in all cases. Complete and utter awe towards actually everything in the universe may be perceived as intimidating, but at the same time as absolutely elevating and breathtakingly ravishing. Let me grab this occasion to stress, likewise, how absolutely marvelous and wonderful it is, at the same time. besides YOU?īut it only stands, as it always has, unmoving and mute - its origin and purpose, still, a TOTAL mystery.ĭear Faye, thank you for that account of yours of -basically- what time (and space, and space-time) is and why it sort of scares us all, in a way. What are you, black Monolith? What are WE? Why did you make us? Where is this place, this 14 billion light-year wide bubble? What's outside it. Where will I be in a quarter-billion years, when it rotates around to here again? ![]() Too much time has passed, and that scares me too.īut what scares me to death is that in my whole life, from when I was a baby girl to when I'm an old lady in my last hospital bed, the galaxy I'm in, which has wound itself into a tight spiral, will have rotated only 300 milliarcseconds. God was in his heaven, and all's right with the world.īut in the TOC, seeing the state of astronomy then, the small-aperture "giant" telescopes on mountains, the common things we didn't know, like pulsars and grav lenses. Sure, it was pleasant to remember when Jupiter had 12 moons, Saturn had six rings, and there were 9 planets. I started to read the TOC from '69, but I couldn't do it. Seeing Dennis made me particularly sad, as I had a crush on him soooo long ago. So is seeing pictures of my S&T editor-friends (the only friends I had in high school), and they turned into OLD MEN. Now, in four years, I'll recognize issues in "S&T 50 years ago". It freaked me out when I looked at "25 years ago in S&T" and saw the cover of an issue I had in high school. To find articles in our archives, browse our online store for individual back issues. ![]()
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