God as humble artist
God is a humble artist. I remember when I was very young that my dad had a big star gazing telescope set up on a concrete stand in the back garden through which we could examine the craters of the moon. This photo was taken last month through an old tripod telescope with an iphone 4. It amazed me then, and it amazes me now that we can see the clear contours and craters of a satellite that orbits our own planet, a moon that we know is around 240 thousand miles away. I loved Dr Cox's TV series 'Wonders of the Universe' and I frequently read books that can explain quantum physics for dummies, and recently read through the popular book '20 Things That Don't Make Sense' - which poses such questions as 'Where is 98% of the Universe?' (the question of dark matter; the invisible material that we assume must be out there in order for the universe to be behaving the way it does). Good questions are the life blood of good science and by all accounts there are a g...