c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…look at it, and I'm taking this idea directly from an essay by Aldous Huxley in which he expanded on a comment by Edwin Hubble in his own essay, the role of science in education. And there Hubble said, our only assets, both for ourselves and our…
…in which he expanded on a comment by Edwin Hubble in his own essay, the role of science in education. And there Hubble said, our only assets, both for ourselves and our children, are the faculties with which we were born and the accumulated experience…
…born and the accumulated experience of past generations. And then it was Huxley who went on to explain that he thought what Hubble meant was the accumulated experience of past generations is the thing that we call culture. Now, taken in that light, is it…
…It must be this coffee. What you were saying sounds like, I think it was just recently, a couple months ago, that a Hubble constant, the Hubble telescope, is thrown things into question. And, you know, I think. Have you pursued that? Yes, I follow all…
…coffee. What you were saying sounds like, I think it was just recently, a couple months ago, that a Hubble constant, the Hubble telescope, is thrown things into question. And, you know, I think. Have you pursued that? Yes, I follow all that very…
…When there is huge controversy raging at this moment in astrophysics, because, well, here's the background. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble studied variable stars. And in an effort to establish what are called absolute or reliable candles for measuring cosmic…
…star, that then he could calculate how that radiance would diminish at distance. And there is a number involved with Hubble's name called the Hubble constant. And if you set it high, the universe is young. Did I get it right? And if you set it low, the…
…set it low, the universe is old and furious. Battles are now raging because there is data coming in, both from the Hubble telescope, ironically named after Edwin Hubble. There is data coming in there that is supporting the idea. I believe that, using…
…and furious. Battles are now raging because there is data coming in, both from the Hubble telescope, ironically named after Edwin Hubble. There is data coming in there that is supporting the idea. I believe that, using standard mathematics, the universe is…
…Conversely, from a different set of instruments looking at a different part of the. Of the radio or electromagnetic universe, low Hubble constants, values are coming in, implying that the universe is 18 to 22 billion years old, rather than six to eight…
…as a universe 4306 years old. I feel real cramped in a 10 billion year old universe. That is not enough. If the Hubble constant had a variation in time, that would probably describe it. Maybe your formulas might point to how it might vary in time.…
…would probably describe it. Maybe your formulas might point to how it might vary in time. Or we have a locally varying Hubble constant. Well, yes, you raise a whole bunch of interesting issues here. Look at how presumptuous science is. First of all, all…