To The Moon, For the Last Refuge of Human Knowledge

After several thousand years spent looking up and contemplating the nature of the cosmos, as well as what’s for dinner, we humans have amassed a lot of knowledge. We know the precise age of the Earth and the universe. We know how life sends copies of itself into the future. We know, with amazing accuracy, […]

Abstruse Goose: The Sum of All Knowledge

Pay attention to the quote below the drawing.  John Archibald Wheeler was a physicist whose specialities were nuclear physics, gravitation — he created the term, “black hole” — and getting people riled up.   He died in 2008 at age 96. I mean, when Victor Hugo writes that science says the last word on nothing, […]