A Promoter of
amateur astronomy.
Telescope designed.
John Dobson, long time promoter of amateur astronomy and designer of an inexpensive and simple to build Newtonian telescope, has just passed away at 98. I wrote this entry in the Biography Haiku Challenge in his honor.
The image comes from the Griffith Observatory.
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Wow, quick turnaround on the haiku, Laith! Yeah, this fellow lived a ripe life, and he was always against the Big Bangers, too. At first I was like, ‘wasn’t that the guy who discovered Pluto?’ But I was thinking of Clyde Tombaugh. He figured out something about finding planets from their parent star’s gravitational pull.
Yeah, some of his ideas about cosmology are a bit out there from the mainstream viewpoint. But he did a great job in trying to bring the wonders of the universe to the general public.
Hey he does make some great points, in that it seems ridiculous that everything can come from nothing and science (still) works quite hard to find the solution to prove that.
Yup, he did have some good points. However he didn’t have a fully workable answer either to my mind.
Dang I just realized I’m commenting on someone else’s post – feel free to pick the one you like best and get rid of the rest if you like!
And yeah but neither does Big Bang – they still have yet to find a GUT or proof of “dark matter.”
But I’m not taking sides!
Didn’t say they did… 🙂
Personally I have a feeling that this may be one of those questions that can never be finally answered.
Well seriously – what fun would it be if we found the answer to EVERYTHING, right? I’ve always believed that asking questions is more important than finding answers!
and in many things asking the question and getting an answer just leads to new questions… which is GREAT!
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Lol leave it to you-know-who to turn the equation into its head. 🙂
He has a valid argument, I think – whomever is correct will wash up eventually!
He does have a valid argument. Whomever is more correct in that debate will eventually wash up, that’s what I figure.