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The scientific community needs to start proving theories rather than endorsing them as fact, I fear that the funding cuts are becoming more widespread simply because astronomy isnt providing the population with any tangeable outcomes. Just more questions than we started with.
What's your thoughts on this?
Dennis.
Interesting little discussion fellas - reminds me of a quote I used in an inscription for one of my public sculptures: "Knowledge expands our sense of wonder" aka "The more we understand, the less we know."
Someone told me that the Judeo-christian bible has something analogous: not subscribing personally to that ethos, I'm unsure as to the veracity of such (but maybe oneday I'll subscribe to the purchase of a secondhand 13mm ethos!)
However, I do know that within (our) Aboriginal lores this aphorism is widely articulated; hence my using it on the aforesaid sculpture. I have no problems with "The Big Bang" concept et al as an articulation/analogy of events and fail to see why some sort of stasis has to be inflicted upon it: the "what happened before the bang" perspective - to me it would seem more complementary to see such as "pulsing/oscillating" through infinity.
Having said such, it is a conceptualization: in our cultures it is one of the inferred associations/references within the ubiquitous spiral/concentric rings symbols.
As to spending to expose questions: too much policy and its' effects nowadays seems orientated towards suppressing said.
Regards, Darryl.
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