Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer. [video=youtube;9D05ej8u-gU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU[/video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU
Neil is the bees knees. But that link doesn't play on my platform (iPad) for some reason. So here is another link if anyone else had issues. [video]http://youtu.be/wiOwqDmacJo[/video]
I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. One of the best popularizers of science since Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould sadly left us. As Sagan said, we are made of starstuff.
When I hear deGrasse's tough guy voice, my ears curl into self-protective mode. Carl Sagan had such a great speaking style. When his research revealed that nuclear war would cause worldwide forest fires, he shared his documentation with the Soviet Union. I knew then that he was a dead man. He soon "caught cancer" and died early. DeGrasse is impressed that Earth atoms came from across the universe, after being in the Big Bang. I'm impressed that the rules of logic, and their resulting laws of physics, are the same anywhere you go in this one universe. Those of us sensing that things are really weird somewhere are left with either the multiverse theory or the occult.
Too manly for me. I like my physicists with an airy intellectual accent, wearing a plaid sports cap with matching vest. This scientist-football player turns me off. But maybe he could replace Wesley Matthews.
