On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Carl Sagan postulated that a primary particle like an electron, might >> each be a universe unto itself. >> > > Naah. That was a sci-fi radio episode of X-1 circa 1950. Sagan, who > wasn't even a physicist, Carl Sagan got a Masters in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1956 and a PhD in 1960. Incidentally Isaac Asimov (a man not known for false modesty) said that in his entire life he only met 2 people he was certain was more intelligent than he was, one was Marvin Minsky and the other was Carl Sagan . . > > > never postulated such nonsense. In 1980 during his Cosmos TV show he said something rather like that, back then most thought the universe was closed but today we know that the universe is not only open it's accelerating. Sagan said: **" *If the cosmos is closed...there's a strange, haunting, evocative possibility...one of the most exquisite conjectures in science and religion. It's entirely undemonstrated...it may never be proved, but it's stirring. Our entire universe, to the farthest galaxy, we are told...is no more than a closed electron...in a far grander universe we can never see. That universe is only a n elementary particle...in another still greater universe and so on forever. Also, every electron in our universe, it is claimed...is an entire miniature cosmos...containing galaxies and stars and life, and electrons. Everyone of those electrons contains a still smaller universe...an infinite regression up and down.* " John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
