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	<title>Comments on: Penzias on a Meaningful Universe</title>
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		<title>By: Edvallace</title>
		<link>http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2005/08/21/cpenzias-on-a-meaningful-universe/#comment-26024</link>
		<dc:creator>Edvallace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rabbi Adlerstein,

Appreciate the article. On a side note: One of the things mentioned in Penzias' words has been the four-dimensional universe. Would you mind providing me references if they're readily available for understanding that better? I still struggle with it and it impacts how we understand the letter Daled, always acknowledged as the expression of Olam Hazah.

Thank you,
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rabbi Adlerstein,</p>
<p>Appreciate the article. On a side note: One of the things mentioned in Penzias&#8217; words has been the four-dimensional universe. Would you mind providing me references if they&#8217;re readily available for understanding that better? I still struggle with it and it impacts how we understand the letter Daled, always acknowledged as the expression of Olam Hazah.</p>
<p>Thank you,<br />
EV</p>
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		<title>By: Barry Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barry Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dunno - your boldfaced reason is a pretty weak reed on which to dismiss something.  After all the standard line for many years was that only four people in the world understood relativity (never true I suspect) although we now standardly teach special realtivity to freshmen and general realtivity to grad students.

A more compelling argument is that even string theory itself has no experimental confirmation and is somewhat speculative and random ripple with a false vacuum is regarded as VERY speculative even by string theorists.  So while the parallel universe stuff in this (and other forms has had enormous "press"), it lies on a Rube Goldberg house of cards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dunno - your boldfaced reason is a pretty weak reed on which to dismiss something.  After all the standard line for many years was that only four people in the world understood relativity (never true I suspect) although we now standardly teach special realtivity to freshmen and general realtivity to grad students.</p>
<p>A more compelling argument is that even string theory itself has no experimental confirmation and is somewhat speculative and random ripple with a false vacuum is regarded as VERY speculative even by string theorists.  So while the parallel universe stuff in this (and other forms has had enormous &#8220;press&#8221;), it lies on a Rube Goldberg house of cards.</p>
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		<title>By: Jew Speak</title>
		<link>http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2005/08/21/cpenzias-on-a-meaningful-universe/#comment-26009</link>
		<dc:creator>Jew Speak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The writer you quote was Robert Jastrow and here is what he said:

"This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth... [But] for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; [and] as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

- Robert Jastrow
(God and the Astronomers [New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978], 116.   Professor Jastrow was the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute, now director of the Mount Wilson Institute and its observatory.)
source: http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/quotes.htm

Take care.

Jew Speak
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The writer you quote was Robert Jastrow and here is what he said:</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth&#8230; [But] for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; [and] as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.&#8221;</p>
<p>- Robert Jastrow<br />
(God and the Astronomers [New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978], 116.   Professor Jastrow was the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute, now director of the Mount Wilson Institute and its observatory.)<br />
source: <a href="http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/quotes.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/quotes.htm</a></p>
<p>Take care.</p>
<p>Jew Speak</p>
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