1. Scientific Theories and Laws
2. The First Decade (1936-1946)
4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)
6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)
8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)
10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)
12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)
14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)
15. The Theory of More than Everything
16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)
18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)
Appendix A Paintings
Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe
Appendix C Musical Compositions
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Even in the twentieth century, scientists weren't always sure what they saw out there. Astronomers thought those fuzzy, round objects in the night sky were gas clouds inside our galaxy. By now, you know what they were.
During the day we can see the sun, and sometimes the moon, move slowly across the sky. If we go outside at night, we'll see stars that move ever so slowly from east to west; compared to the crickets and frogs, the sky seems particularly quiet except for the occasional shooting star (a grain of sand burning through our atmosphere). If we go out a few nights in a row, we may notice some non-twinkling stars, wanderers called planets, moving across the background of the others. Sometimes a comet might appear, but we've explained all these observations, haven't we?
Yes, but all these objects are quite close to us compared to those fuzzy things mentioned earlier. If your eyes are really sharp, you can see a faint, hazy something in the Andromeda constellation. Remember the poster from third grade? In Andromeda, we can actually see one of those pinwheels of stars, another galaxy. It's the closest one, and it doesn't seem to move at all; even Einstein assumed it wasn't moving. The problem began once those pesky astronomers started using stronger telescopes, photography, and other contraptions. They noticed an unexpected feature of the universe they hadn't explained.
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