tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post1648786371969795317..comments2023-05-11T17:35:12.051+10:00Comments on cosmic rapture: the stolen childhood of Everthingmasterymisteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-69535849148895146112012-09-13T04:03:10.769+10:002012-09-13T04:03:10.769+10:00Antares, yes of course -- I missed that connection...Antares, yes of course -- I missed that connection in writing the post, but it fits perfectly, thank you. MMmasterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-43792637945619959682012-09-12T19:12:07.222+10:002012-09-12T19:12:07.222+10:00How do you define a tumor? Abnormal growth! QEDHow do you define a tumor? Abnormal growth! QEDStarmandalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349987009726416189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-41283796515883903302012-09-07T19:00:54.029+10:002012-09-07T19:00:54.029+10:00Hi mgeorge, it's the particle physicists who c...Hi mgeorge, it's the particle physicists who cost the biggest bucks re buildeing their particle accelerators/super-colliders, eg CERN. In fact, in the US promised funding for a hideously, monstrously expensive accelerator was withdrawn in recent years, much to the dismay of the particle physics community. The cosmologists are relatively inexpensive in comparison. All they need is the occasional space telescope, eg Hubble. <br /><br />Ah... the British, an eminently pragmatic people, "a nation of shopkeepers", not given to grand gestures unless there's money and/or power in it. <br /><br />When the Empire started becoming difficult to manage, they started decolonising, and in their withdrawal had a grand old time drawing strange new borders to heap up heaps of trouble "moving forward"!<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. Cheers, MM.masterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-40139382416445078862012-09-07T15:11:10.966+10:002012-09-07T15:11:10.966+10:00A good summary. Am not really interested in cosmol...A good summary. Am not really interested in cosmological speculations provided they do not suck up public funding. The clear and present danger is the religion of economics created to serve, protect and enable capital. I will stop with just 2 quotes:<br /><br />"It takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" - Lewis Carrol, Alice In Wonderland, 1865<br /><br />"After slave revolts including a big Jamaican one in 1831, the British decided that slavery was not economical. In Parliament, they talked of masters becoming owners and slaves becoming workers. When freed slaves in Jamaica preferred to subsist on open land, the state was used to close off such land, and capitalists set about creating wants to attract wage labourers." - Prof. Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power, 2002mgeorgenoreply@blogger.com