Here's an item from the Sigma Xi science news service that some of you might find of interest. I liked the "humility" part, and found the simile toward the bottom telling. WE'VE MOVED UP A BIT FROM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE Commentary from The Los Angeles Times The entire history of science, it often seems, is one long lesson in humility. >From our privileged spot at the center of the cosmos (or so we thought) just a few hundred years ago, we fell into the arms of a very ordinary spiral galaxy, one of billions in the universe. Our solar system, astronomers tell us, congealed out of debris of long-dead stars the way fat congeals in soup. To rub it in, cosmologists now tell us that even the universe may be nothing special--just one of a very large litter of universes that may well breed like bunnies. It's even possible, some physicists say, that we experience only a small sliver of the true spatial dimensions of space--like pond scum confined to the surface of a much deeper universe, whose depths we will never fathom. Physicists and astronomers are mostly to blame for this humiliating state of affairs. <http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20010215/t000013717.html> Pat Cabe ************************************************** Patrick Cabe, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of North Carolina at Pembroke One University Drive Pembroke, NC 28372-1510 (910) 521-6630 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Thomas Jefferson "There is the danger that everyone waits idly for others to act in his stead." Albert Einstein "Majorities simply follow minorities. Gandhi
