Miracle? All of it.

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NY Times Letter to the Editor:

“The Chirp Heard Across the Universe” (editorial, Feb. 16), about the recent discovery of the gravitational waves that were predicted by Einstein a century ago, asks, “Does science, or knowledge, really need a justification?”

The answer, of course, is no. But in a culture that has become saturated with the idea that only commercial value matters, we’ve become afraid of expressing an impulse as natural and basic as this.

Much like literature, music, philosophy and art, enjoyment of the natural sciences — and of nature itself — has intrinsic value. No further justification is required. Curiosity, wonder and beauty are enough.

~ Mark Bessoudo, Toronto

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24 thoughts on “Miracle? All of it.”

  4. Everything vibrates. We just need to tune in to hear it.
    We seem have to make up stories (justifications) about everything. Even when writing about justification, the writer has to justify it.
    This is the noise of the human, not the cosmos.

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  5. Heard one of the main scientists in this discovery interviewed recently and her excitement was palpable. It got *me* all whipped into a frenzy and I only understood about half of what in the hell she was talking about. My takeaway? Amaaaaazzziinnnggg!! 🙂

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  12. So I spent a half hour looking at the photo, turning my iPad clockwise in quarter turns … 90 degrees … 180 … 270 … 360 … then counterclockwise back to 270 …180 … 90 … and so on and so on and so on. Finally figured it out. Dizzy now and I have a tee-time in an hour, so here come a couple of snowmen I’m sure. Thanks a bunch, Dave … good post though!

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