Dice

In recent weeks there has been some pretty amazing stories coming out in the Astronomy field. One of the big stories is about the discovery of a planet in a distant solar system that has the potential to support life as we know it.

Today's big story is the discovery that Mercury has a liquid core rather then a solid one thereby throwing what we thought we knew about how planets are forming into a spin. Just when we think we know it all we discover that we don't know as much as we think we do. That should be a humbling experience for man.

There is a famous saying that "God doesn't play dice with the universe." However it does look like he may be playing a different game then we are. Just when we think we have figured out how this universe of ours is put together something like this comes along and we need to reexamine our beliefs. That is the wonderful thing about science. Science is not static, it is fluid. We form a hypotheses based on the facts that we have and then proceed to test and test again to see if what we believe holds up. Sometimes we do okay and then sometimes God throws us a curve ball to see if we are awake at the plate.

I can hardly wait to see what the next big story is in Astronomy. I have found a great site to check it out at though in www.space.com.

The picture is from my Solar System series and is called Mercury.

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