{"id":72814,"date":"2019-04-12T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=72814"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:15:05","slug":"the-world-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/04\/the-world-is-not-enough.html","title":{"rendered":"The world is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Once again, here\u2019s the enormous black hole at the heart of the distant galaxy Messier 87. (National Science Foundation and Event Horizon Telescope public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Scientists are still celebrating the black hole image that was released a few days ago, and pondering its significance:<\/p>\n

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\u201c10 Deep Lessons From Our First Image Of A Black Hole\u2019s Event Horizon\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cMeet one of the first scientists to see the historic black hole image: Making a portrait of a black hole led to sleepless nights and one big thrill\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cBlack hole image validates imagining the unimaginable: Long dreamed of yet unseen, invisible stars intrigued scientists and the public as well\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Incidentally, one of the scientists mentioned in the third of the three articles above is the great John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008), who popularized the phrase black hole<\/em>. \u00a0In that context, you might be interested to read the testimony of B. Kent Harrison<\/a> on the \u201cMormon Scholars Testify\u201d website. \u00a0(Yes, I\u2019ll eventually get around to changing the name of that site. \u00a0Don\u2019t worry!) \u00a0Professor Harrison studied with Professor Wheeler at Princeton, and, as his biography at \u201cMormon Scholars Testify\u201d indicates, co-authored a book with him: \u00a0Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse<\/em>\u00a0(Chicago, 1965).<\/p>\n

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The article also mentions the German mathematical physicist and astronomer\u00a0Karl Schwarzschild\u00a0(1873-1916), who, in 1915, arrived at the\u00a0first\u00a0exact solution\u00a0to the\u00a0field equations\u00a0of in Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of\u00a0general relativity, which was itself introduced that year. \u00a0Effectively, Schwarzschild deduced the likely existence of black holes. \u00a0He accomplished this while he was serving in the German army during the First World War. \u00a0Unfortunately, he died the following year from an autoimmune disease that he had contracted on the Russian front, at the age of just 42.<\/p>\n

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Karl Schwarzschild represents yet another tragic example of human potential remaining unfulfilled in this life \u2014 and yet another reason to hope that there is a life beyond this one. \u00a0(See also \u201cBeethoven is a study in hope, healing.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Was Mars once partially covered by a sea of liquid water, or was it not?<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Paradoxes of a Martian Ocean\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cClimate change made the Arctic greener. Now parts of it are turning brown. \u00a0Warming trends bring more insects, extreme weather and wildfires that wipe out plants\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Denisovans May Have Been More Than a Single Species\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Write your family history now, before it becomes even more complex.<\/p>\n

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***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A bit more recent, though still quite ancient:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDeclassified photos from U2 planes are helping archaeologists unlock the past:\u00a0Code-named CHESS, the flyover missions were meant to monitor military targets.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Opinions vary about whether Netanyahu\u2019s reelection was bad news for Israel. \u00a0But this definitely<\/em> is:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIsrael\u2019s first moon mission lost moments before landing: The spacecraft\u2019s engine cut out just before it was to touch down in the Sea of Serenity\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Posted from San Diego, California<\/p>\n

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