Phase Inverter
20th October 2008, 04:49 PM
I had the opportunity recently to catch the Paul Harvey Show, hosted by Paul Harvey Jr., a few times over the last few weeks. Each time I heard it, he made some comment about science. Below are the transcripts of the three stories that I heard.
Emerging details on something we started last week. It was there... and then it was gone. Lingered two hundred tantalizing days. Long enough for astronomers to decide that whatever it was we saw in the night sky, it was like nothing we have ever seen or even imagined among the literally innumerable stars. And, no this was not a star, not a super-nova, certainly not a black hole. In fact the spectrum analysis suggests it was made of nothing we know of in the entire universe. Just appeared out of nowhere. Spotted first by the Hubble Space Telescope. Can't have been any nearer than a hundred-thirty light years but may have been eleven billion. And, whereas stars reside in galaxies, no, not this thing. And I want you to remember this report, and the many others like it next time someone tries to tell you that wonders are worthless, and science is king. Because science, once again, doesn't know what it's looking at. One of the elite physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider said the flash was what you'd expect, quote, when an Imperial Star-Destroyer reaches warp ten. And he was not smiling.
You've heard of near death experiences. Nobody wants to call them death experiences yet because science has taken no official position that anything happens afterward. But that may all be about to change. You see, over the next three years they're going to conduct a study. In twenty-five hospitals in the US and UK, in which special shelves will be installed in resuscitation areas. You know how people whose hearts and brains have stopped, later sometimes tell of looking down from above at themselves and doctors. Well, those high shelves are going to have unique images on them, visible only from above. And if those clinically dead patients are revived knowing what those images are, science will take another hit. Forced to admit that consciousness is something separate from the physical you.
What you're about to hear is, at the bottom of it, what this program is all about. The golden calf called science keeps getting its little tail singed by some greater, yet inexplicable reality. In astrophysics, those most recent mocking intruders on scientific law and order are called dark energy and dark matter. Euphemisms for "we have absolutely no idea what's really going on in outer space." And now, this morning, along comes dark flow. Patches of matter way out there in the high sky, traveling at unimaginable speeds and in a uniform direction that can not be explained by any force anybody knows of. Best the pseudo-explainers can do is to say whatever is pushing or pulling this matter at two million miles an hour must be outside the known universe. You understand what you've just heard? Our best technology has just proved the existence of something beyond the universe. Of something immeasurably powerful beyond all the stars that are. And, for some reason, you and I are the only people talking about it.
This is the first time I have ever listened to the show with him hosting, but I get the impression that Mr. Harvey Jr. is not too fond of science.
Emerging details on something we started last week. It was there... and then it was gone. Lingered two hundred tantalizing days. Long enough for astronomers to decide that whatever it was we saw in the night sky, it was like nothing we have ever seen or even imagined among the literally innumerable stars. And, no this was not a star, not a super-nova, certainly not a black hole. In fact the spectrum analysis suggests it was made of nothing we know of in the entire universe. Just appeared out of nowhere. Spotted first by the Hubble Space Telescope. Can't have been any nearer than a hundred-thirty light years but may have been eleven billion. And, whereas stars reside in galaxies, no, not this thing. And I want you to remember this report, and the many others like it next time someone tries to tell you that wonders are worthless, and science is king. Because science, once again, doesn't know what it's looking at. One of the elite physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider said the flash was what you'd expect, quote, when an Imperial Star-Destroyer reaches warp ten. And he was not smiling.
You've heard of near death experiences. Nobody wants to call them death experiences yet because science has taken no official position that anything happens afterward. But that may all be about to change. You see, over the next three years they're going to conduct a study. In twenty-five hospitals in the US and UK, in which special shelves will be installed in resuscitation areas. You know how people whose hearts and brains have stopped, later sometimes tell of looking down from above at themselves and doctors. Well, those high shelves are going to have unique images on them, visible only from above. And if those clinically dead patients are revived knowing what those images are, science will take another hit. Forced to admit that consciousness is something separate from the physical you.
What you're about to hear is, at the bottom of it, what this program is all about. The golden calf called science keeps getting its little tail singed by some greater, yet inexplicable reality. In astrophysics, those most recent mocking intruders on scientific law and order are called dark energy and dark matter. Euphemisms for "we have absolutely no idea what's really going on in outer space." And now, this morning, along comes dark flow. Patches of matter way out there in the high sky, traveling at unimaginable speeds and in a uniform direction that can not be explained by any force anybody knows of. Best the pseudo-explainers can do is to say whatever is pushing or pulling this matter at two million miles an hour must be outside the known universe. You understand what you've just heard? Our best technology has just proved the existence of something beyond the universe. Of something immeasurably powerful beyond all the stars that are. And, for some reason, you and I are the only people talking about it.
This is the first time I have ever listened to the show with him hosting, but I get the impression that Mr. Harvey Jr. is not too fond of science.