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Those of us with a scientific leaning tend to treat books like those mentioned above, and thoughts they include as an
absolute truth, as a basis we trust, and as something on which to build our lives. However, some of these studies and writings and thoughts are closer to
mythology than they are to reality. These studies are a guided mythology, with trend lines which reach back into mathematics and sometimes even into
observations. And, for example, consider the Anthropic Principle,2.36 which states that if something
must be true for us as humans to exist, then it is true simply because we exist. Where is the scientific measurement associated with this cosmological
theory? It is not found by looking at the stars, nor is it found by measuring star emissions, their paths, their speed, their point of origin, nor projections
of where they will be in the future. It seems there are scientists who also base their work on faith.
However, there are many insights regarding time and space which come from or have been confirmed with
astronomical observations and astrophysical measurements and models (see Figure19). Mankind has looked at the stars as long as mankind has
been on the planet. Today, those of us who live in cities seldom have an opportunity to spend a night or a month of nights sleeping under the
stars and contemplating their spacing, their distance from earth, their time of origin, their time of rotation, their diameter, their moons, and other
basic concepts of astrophysical time and space (see Chapter VI, Sections 1 and 2).
Figure 19. A mathematical model illustrating the time-space continuum
(courtesy of http://www.gravitation3d.com).
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