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The Design of the Universe

// February 17th, 2009 // World Issues

“Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos — with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids — got built this way.”

Literally awesome, as in inspiring complete and utter awe- this overwhelming feeling of wonder and admiration. Arne Næss, the Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer and founder of “deep ecology”, who passed away last week, put it beautifully when he wrote,

‘The smaller one comes to feel compared to the mountain, the nearer one comes to sharing in its greatness. I do not know why this is so.’