As best I can tell, he is a very knowledgeable science reporter, well versed in physics and astronomy. He is feeling sad for the astrophysicists of 100 billion years hence, and, I agree, they (if there is a they) will be missing clues we have. And the giants on whose shoulders we now stand didn't have their own shoulders to stand on. Nor the Hubble to make all these illuminating observations.
So he has a point, but I think he'd allow the possibility of multiple big bangs (if, like the good reporter he is, he finds someone of stature to make the speculation).
What I find much more depressing is that technology limits seem to be restricting us more tightly to the vicinity of the Earth, and we, my countrymen in particular, are greedily making it a tougher place to live on. I think it would be nice if, when the Sun becomes unstable, there were some who could and would run from it. That's coming a bit sooner than the vanishing of the galaxy clusters.
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Date: 2007-06-07 01:10 pm (UTC)So he has a point, but I think he'd allow the possibility of multiple big bangs (if, like the good reporter he is, he finds someone of stature to make the speculation).
What I find much more depressing is that technology limits seem to be restricting us more tightly to the vicinity of the Earth, and we, my countrymen in particular, are greedily making it a tougher place to live on. I think it would be nice if, when the Sun becomes unstable, there were some who could and would run from it. That's coming a bit sooner than the vanishing of the galaxy clusters.