If Our Species Is To Survive, Our

Lack Of Comfort Means We Are On The Threshold Of New Insights.

Empty Space Is A Boiling, Bubbling Brew Of Virtual Particles That Pop In And Out Of Existence In A Time Scale So Short That You Can't Even Measure Them.

The Universe Does Not Care What We Want.

Discerning The Merits Of Competing Claims Is Where The Empirical Basis Of Science Should Play A Role. I Cannot Stress Often Enough That What Science Is All About Is Not Proving Things To Be True But Proving Them To Be False. What Fails The Test Of Empirical Reality, As Determined By Observation And Experiment, Gets Thrown Out Like Yesterday's Newspaper.

In 5 Billion Years, The Expansion Of The Universe Will Have Progressed To The Point Where All Other Galaxies Will Have Receded Beyond Detection.