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And if it's quite a lot more than 10% (and I think it is), and, also, depending on whether or not neutrinos have mass (which I think some recent studies show that they do), and, thus, possibly determining the issue of the universe expanding forever, vs. the reverse, the universe collapsing upon itself (eventually; or even right now, sporadically), how did the quantity of neutrinos INCREASE to prevent levels?
Do you sometimes feel that--as cosmologists--we are like Medieval doctors trying to stem a plague without realizing that germs cause disease, and pass among humans by sneezing, coughing and touch? Like we are missing some VITAL CLUE to what's really going on? And, like, it's so simple, if only we would take off the blinders that we only barely realize we are wearing (some of us barely realize--most others consider the blindered view to be reality), it would be OBVIOUS...a) how the universe is constructed, b) how to move around in it, c) that the length of our lives--and our decline and fall into old age and death--is determined by our ties to the earth and the solar system, and if we break those bonds, and move around in TIME, we will conquer disease and death, and d) find out what life is for.
Me and Kurt Vonnegut, I guess, think thoughts like this. But, hey, we have a whole lot of history clearly demonstrating a whole lot of blinder-wearing by a whole lot of people on a whole lot of subjects, until....somebody pulled the blinders off.
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