{"id":5842,"date":"2011-02-19T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2011-02-20T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:11:19","slug":"dark-matter-and-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/02\/19\/dark-matter-and-dark-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter and Dark Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a 15 minute talk by Patricia Burchat.<\/p>\n

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How on earth is this political?  It frequently occurs to me when I learn about stuff like this, that the people who are arguing over whether or not evolution is real, are missing some even bigger questions than that.  I wonder if they have any inkling about how puny the question of evolution is in the midst of these other issues.<\/p>\n
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MardyS recently posted a link to a book review on his facebook page.<\/p>\n
How We Know<\/a><\/strong> by Freeman Dyson is a book review of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood<\/em> by James Gleick.<\/p>\n
In the review Dyson says, Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth.<\/q>.  It seems to me that some of his discussion about the myth<\/q> does not seem to be cognizant of dark energy as discussed in the video clip.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the heat death paradox,  Dyson says,<\/p>\n
\nThe best popular account of the disappearance of the paradox is a chapter, \u201cHow Order Was Born of Chaos,\u201d in the book Creation of the Universe<\/em>, by Fang Lizhi and his wife Li Shuxian.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Creation of the Universe<\/em> published in Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1989.<\/p>\n
Freeman Dyson is a world renowned physicist.  I find it unlikely that I would know more about this subject than he does.  I must have some misunderstanding if it seems to me he has some things wrong or at least not explained well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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