![]() ![]() When I heard about it I couldn’t help thinking about Clarke’s Jesuit and the star of Bethlehem. Nobody knows if there could have been somebody or something living there, when the universe was half its present age. Overbye, who was greatly influenced by Clarke’s writings which he describes as the ultimate reason why he ended up becoming an MIT graduate, reports that a supernova exploded in the constellation Boötes on the day of Clarke’s death: It was the remains of a cataclysmic explosion, a gamma-ray burst, that must have torched a galaxy seven billion light-years away, around the curve of the cosmos, as Clarke might have put it. ![]() Dennis Overbye (“A Boy’s Life, Guided by the Cosmic Wonder, ” NYT, March 25,2007) writes about the science fiction writer and space visionary, the co-creator with Stanley Kubrick of the classic 1968 movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Once this was known, they could no longer see the stars, which He extinguished with a curse, because although He challenges us to know His names, He does not want us to find out precisely where the trees of knowledge grow, because His universe is based on doubt. When scientists transferred them from a stone on which He’d written them, they then compared these names to those of all the stars astronomers had managed to discover, and thus found a proof their names were all eponymous, based on a God, who out of sight and sound, left traces in the starry sky that He exists, the Founder of the universe. Once nine billion names of God were known the world would end, the monks declared. ![]()
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