{"id":29521,"date":"2014-07-16T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=29521"},"modified":"2014-07-16T19:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T23:43:26","slug":"the-unexpected-universe-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2014\/the-unexpected-universe-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected Universe (NY Times)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Einstein-550.jpg\" alt=\"Einstein 550\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Einstein-550.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Einstein-550-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nEditor\u2019s note<\/em>: \u00a0On the face of it, this story\u00a0has nothing to do with wind energy. \u00a0But that\u2019s just on the face of it. \u00a0In truth\u00a0the\u00a0story has everything to do with everything, including who we are and who the universe is. \u00a0I use a personal \u201cwho\u201d instead of \u201cwhat.\u201d \u00a0For it seems to me that, regardless of whether one thinks of the universe as a god (capitalized or not) or simply a great, patient, inexhaustible intelligence \u2014 that \u201cwho\u201d fits better than \u201cwhat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I offer this NY Times video as a way of putting our lives, and even this campaign, into perspective. \u00a0It\u2019s the biggest perspective of all. \u00a0All of us, me included, risk imagining that our thoughts, along with those of humanity at large, are\u00a0front and center, paramount above\u00a0everything else. \u00a0A story like this corrects such\u00a0hubris.<\/p>\n<p>Behold\u00a0the scaffolding of the cosmos. \u00a0The shadow universe \u2014 a spidery web of matter we can&#8217;t\u00a0see \u2014 existing alongside the one we do perceive. \u00a0\u201cDark matter\u201d isn\u2019t just out there in the abyss\u00a0we call outer space; it\u2019s intimate, it\u2019s personal \u2014 a shadow self of you and me.<\/p>\n<p>The poet John Donne, wrote\u00a0Loren Eiseley,\u00a0\u201crecognized that behind visible nature lurks an invisible and procreant void from whose incomprehensible magnitude we can only recoil\u201d (Eiseley, \u201cThe Unexpected Universe,\u201d p. 31).<\/p>\n<p>Recoil? \u00a0Maybe. \u00a0Personally, I find it thrilling.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000003001297&amp;playerType=embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/16\/science\/space\/stalking-the-shadow-universe.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&amp;module=photo-spot-region&amp;region=photo-spot&amp;WT.nav=photo-spot\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the related article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . Editor\u2019s note: \u00a0On the face of it, this story\u00a0has nothing to do with wind energy. \u00a0But that\u2019s just on the face of it. \u00a0In truth\u00a0the\u00a0story has everything to do with everything, including who we are and who the universe is. \u00a0I use a personal \u201cwho\u201d instead of \u201cwhat.\u201d \u00a0For it seems to me that, regardless of whether one thinks of the universe as a god (capitalized or not) or simply a great, patient, inexhaustible intelligence \u2014 that \u201cwho\u201d fits better than \u201cwhat.\u201d I offer this NY Times video as a way of putting our lives, and even this campaign, into perspective. \u00a0It\u2019s the biggest perspective of all. \u00a0All of us, me included, risk imagining that our thoughts, along with those of humanity at large, are\u00a0front and center, paramount above\u00a0everything else. \u00a0A story like this corrects such\u00a0hubris. Behold\u00a0the scaffolding of the cosmos. \u00a0The shadow universe \u2014 a spidery web of matter we can&#8217;t\u00a0see \u2014 existing alongside the one we do perceive. \u00a0\u201cDark matter\u201d isn\u2019t just out there in the abyss\u00a0we call outer space; it\u2019s intimate, it\u2019s personal \u2014 a shadow self of you and me. The poet John Donne, wrote\u00a0Loren Eiseley,\u00a0\u201crecognized that behind visible nature lurks an invisible and procreant void from whose incomprehensible magnitude we can only recoil\u201d (Eiseley, \u201cThe Unexpected Universe,\u201d p. 31). Recoil? \u00a0Maybe. \u00a0Personally, I find it thrilling. Click here for the related article. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,175,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}