erick
31-07-2007, 02:27 PM
..........and particularly enjoyed the punchline. :)
"What we see confirms that we live in a Universe that was born in a Big Bang, and has been expanding for some 15 billion years, while stars, and planets and people came into existence within it. This is the Universe discovered by Hubble at the end of the 1920s – Hubble’s Universe. Our place in Hubble’s Universe is as the inhabitants of an ordinary planet, orbiting an ordinary star, in a backwater of a slightly smaller than average galaxy, one of tens of billions of galaxies in the Universe at large. There is nothing special about our place in the Universe – but the view is spectacular."
(“Cosmos” – Gribbin and Goodwin, Magpie Books, 2006)
"What we see confirms that we live in a Universe that was born in a Big Bang, and has been expanding for some 15 billion years, while stars, and planets and people came into existence within it. This is the Universe discovered by Hubble at the end of the 1920s – Hubble’s Universe. Our place in Hubble’s Universe is as the inhabitants of an ordinary planet, orbiting an ordinary star, in a backwater of a slightly smaller than average galaxy, one of tens of billions of galaxies in the Universe at large. There is nothing special about our place in the Universe – but the view is spectacular."
(“Cosmos” – Gribbin and Goodwin, Magpie Books, 2006)