Culture of Astronomy

THE VIRUS FROM WUHAN, CHINA   Empedocles (492-432 B.C.) says that life is eternal change, in the cycles of birth, growth, maturity, and death. Cities are created and destroyed. Nations and empires rise and fall. Nothing moves in a straight line for long. Change and necessity are the only constants in the universe. We can no longer believe that the cosmos is progressing to bring us a better life and more advanced things –because change is not always progress. Thinking along these lines about ‘Change;’ especially during these times when the world is under siege from the Wuhan Virus; there are countless ways to characterize the reasons for our current situation such as: ·          God is angry with us for our immorality. ·          Nature is mad at our pollution. ·          The Earth is afraid we are sucking all the oil out of her joints. Let us return to Empedocles’s notions of perpetual Change. What could possibly be the reason for this physics of “change?”   Well, Chan