Archive Report
Archive Report
Challenge of New Image of Cosmos
Unprecedented Pace of Discoveries in Astronomy
Unprecedented discoveries in astronomy are causing an upheavel in man's conceptual framework of the universe. It is not by accident that, in man's search for the nature of matter, he is making astounding breakthroughs simultaneously in the fields of particle physics, molecular biology and astronomy. Not since the days of Johannes Kepler, who was born four hundred years ago, Dec. 27, 1571, has the layman been challenged by such an extensive re-orientation of his ideas. Kepler, working with the first telescopes, was able to put forward his laws of planetary motion which displaced the Earth from its assumed central position in the solar system.
Today, astronomers using artificial satellites and electronic detectors have been able ...