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From Jacqueline Jill –

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10yLQh-sD2jWmfWBMDJn9XkrfMnGxU7tacrQvHloM6Eo/edit?usp=sharing

And from Jacqueline Jill –

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10yLQh-sD2jWmfWBMDJn9XkrfMnGxU7tacrQvHloM6Eo/edit?usp=sharing

And Jessie Towle shared this artwork from 1st graders…

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KIeVaK_1N5yQCKTabqIPQ6mmBdmaLoICUFosiYKQYXg/edit?usp=sharing

From Anne Adams –

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ7053Kf–6dORILOqlXguyYZAzboaHn/view?usp=sharing

I am a retired experimental astrophysicist

I grew up in Deadwood, SD, and then enrolled at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, intending to major in physics. During my one year there, I was on the varsity wrestling team, and came across Eckankar, which lead me to stop out of college for five years to seriously pursue mysticism.

I…[Read more]

I’d like to suggest that another definition of autocosmology is, the cosmos writing about itself!

Here is an interesting example of autocosmology that I was involved in. In 1997, I was the lead author on a paper in the Astrophysical Journal (1997ApJ…476..692M) about a quasar in the blazar class named PKS 1622-297. We observed its gamma-ray flux…[Read more]

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Careful what you add – I don’t think we have the functionality to delete!

Thank you John for initiating this discussion. I also wanted to draw attention to a more general problem, the “ethical responsibility of scientists”. Sadly, ethics is a subject often overlooked in the education of today’s scientists. One of the founders of the Pugwash movement (Sir Jozef Rotblat), encouraged the young scientists he met to take the…[Read more]

Thanks John! Paddling the Grand Canyon sound wonderful!! Living a life that is “dense” in enjoyable experiences is something worth striving for however long we live:)   I read the article you referenced and enjoyed it. However, I would like to add a little to the discussion.  Although the article gives a nice overview of some current ideas ab…[Read more]

David,

Thank you for this great contribution!

I also feel a yearning to extend my lifespan. During my annual medicare-sponsored checkup, two weeks ago I told my general practitioner that I hope to live to be 140 (I’m 71 now). He laughed and responded that this puts a lot of responsibility on his care! He is a great fit for me. He’s from South…[Read more]

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During our initial zoom meeting. we discussed environmentalism. David (who serves on the Pugwash Council – an international group of scientists concerned about nuclear war, founded by Bertrand Russel and Albert Einstein) lamented the now diminished effort of scientists to prevent nuclear war.

Sarbmeet suggested that rationale and motivation for…[Read more]