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It was one of the chapters in Carl Sagans Book ..The Demon Haunted World
The Baloney Test Kit Via a Chapter in Carl Sagans book Demon Haunted World
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I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now,something of ill-omen, amongst us.
... " At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? Ianswer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us
. Itcannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we mustourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, wemust live through all time, or die by suicide.
I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now,something of ill-omen, amongst us.
I mean the increasing disregardfor law which pervades the country; the growing disposition tosubstitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the soberjudgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for theexecutive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfullyfearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, thoughgrating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth,and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. Accounts of outragescommitted by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. Theyhave pervaded the country, from New England to Louisiana;--theyare neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former, nor theburning suns of the latter;--they are not the creature of climate--neither are they confined to the slave-holding, or the non-slave-holding States. Alike, they spring up among the pleasure huntingmasters of Southern slaves, and the order loving citizens of theland of steady habits.
--Whatever, then, their cause may be, itis common to the whole country. "....
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So Lamb --recall the the Lamb shift scientist-- another first coined this term term for the ' Axis of Evil ' in regards to the Milky Way's axis being in aligment with this cosmic Axis of Evil.
At about 11:00 or just before this ' Brillant ' sponsored astrophysicist gets into two camps of astrophysicists take on this strange coincidence{?} ---that is one camp-- and at 11:37 she mentions, that, perhaps shape of Universe being a torus { I dont think so } --she does this just in passing ideas around, as to why this Axis of Evil exists---.
Today was first time I had heard of this cosmic Axis of Evil. Time stamp 12:24 addresses a large cluster of galaxies causing graviational lensing might be why the Axis exists, and, there does just happen to be a ultra-large cluster of galaxies out there in the location that could be causing this, however, if that were the case, then creates a ton of other odd questions of our CMB data.
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Got to time stamp 18:40 to begin --the gist of it-- to understand in clear, intuitive way, why photons do not have mass, yet they do have mass, if they travel even minutely less than the speed-of-radiation.
This Brilliant vid, explains the above in three, clearly and intuitive ways, mass { rest }, speed-of-radiation { c = motion }, speed of Causality { C }. If you have the time just go to the time stamp. We presume photons move at speed-of-Causality, because that is simpler, than the alternative reality that--- Einstein, Feynman and others believes exists---, as it is more complex, so why bother, if not necessary to deal with more complexity of space-time.
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