Does science require predictions?
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
While the past may seem like a foreign country, the future is a more mysterious land. Full of potential and promise, tragedy and heartache, people have always sought glimpses of a map of the future. Visions of Christmases-Yet-to-Come terrified Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, while less fictional, and more powerful, characters have sought future insight from the dances of the planets and stars.