Scientists have lost a chunk of the universe again, and its mass is now about 20 percent lighter than just a few years ago, when the universe was thought to be intact and safely stowed away.
"Fast electrons" apparently tricked the astrophysicists into thinking there is more hot gas out there than there really is. In plain English, they dropped the ball.
This should be bad news for Richard Dawkins and his atheist, secular humanist, logical positivist friends--not to mention the rest of us.
Things seemed to go a lot more smoothly when God was in charge and looking after things. Even in his stripped down, Deistic, cosmic watchmaker mode, this kind of thing never happened.
Actually, we should cut the lab-coated bumblers some slack.
Apparently, they've fallen victim to a version of Sod's Law, as stated in the magicians' magazine The Sphinx in 1928: "It is an established fact that in nine cases out of ten whatever can go wrong in a magical performance will do so. The great professors of the art are not immune from the malignancy of matter and the eternal cussedness of inanimate objects."
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Scientists, secular humanists lose piece of universe
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It's like David Bowie said in a movie about magic:
Exact science isn't exact science.
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