\u201cIs There Life on Super-Earths? The Answer Could Depend on Their Cores\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cHow can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAlbert Einstein, The World As I See It<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur,\u201d by Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/span><\/p>\nThe world is charged with the grandeur of God.<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil<\/span><\/div>\nCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?<\/span><\/div>\nGenerations have trod, have trod, have trod;<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And wears man\u2019s smudge and shares man\u2019s smell: the soil<\/span><\/div>\nIs bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
And for all this, nature is never spent;<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;<\/span><\/div>\nAnd though the last lights off the black West went<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs \u2014<\/span><\/div>\nBecause the Holy Ghost over the bent<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 This is really quite astonishing. \u00a0Mind-boggling, in fact: \u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures: Scientists are finding that galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models. The reason why could change everything we think we know about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[344,6528,71,132,2869,2908,6516,6525,6519,6522],"class_list":["post-80154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy","tag-cosmic-religious-feeling","tag-cosmology","tag-einstein","tag-exobiology","tag-exoplanet","tag-filament","tag-gerard-manley-hopkins","tag-giant-structure","tag-gods-grandeur"],"yoast_head":"\n
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