(Hawkins, 1998, p. 80)
The foundations of these understandings, though they cannot take as long as they do in real time to occur, develop a set of variable understandings of the whole of the system. The changing opinion is then a reflection of the fact that one must understand the whole picture, rather than the sum of its parts, or as in the past the individual known and observed occurrences out of context with the system. "The most dramatic and spectral effect, however, is the hardest to see, understand, and gauge." (Miller, 1999, p. 99) This is not to say that individual dynamic occurrences are not worth understanding and that they have not culminated to create a larger picture, such as the one offered by Tucker, Tananbaum & Fabian, in their brief but informative big picture article, but that studying the tree has in the past led to a limited understanding of the forest a fact that is being remedied today, with the inclusion of the more optimistic ideas associated with the fact that the matter we see exists over massive amounts of time, a fact hat must mean there is a sense of balance that...
Rather than seeing the universe as a culmination of the single dynamic events that occur within it and then can presumably unfavorably effect this solar system or even this galaxy, one must instead follow all lines of reason and accept existence, in the same way that existential philosophers have attempted to eliminate the enigma of existence. "We still need to learn more about the large-scale structure of our universe before we can determine whether orientation-reversing paths exist." (Pickover, 2001, p. 139)
References
Hawkins, M. (1998). Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes, and Other Dark Matters. Reading, MA: Perseus Books.
Miller, J.H. (1999). Black Holes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Murphy, C. (2004, October). Never Mind: Old Science Doesn't Die. The Atlantic Monthly, 294, 195.
Pickover, C.A. (2001). Surfing through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons. New York: Oxford University Press.
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