Ah see that's where you are completely wrong. I do own it! I actually purchased the word "cosmology" on e-bay a few days ago for a bid of $3.27.
Now that I have the rights to it, I am letting everyone know I am charging $0.10 per usage, meaning this thread owes me...oh ~$200.
But since no one else is reading this, bar you and me, sure we are both correct:-)
First of definitions are meant to be narrow, that's why they are definitions so you know exactly what the words mean.
second it was the soft science label i was objecting to. and lastly for better or worse I've been studying astronomy at undergrad and grad level for 10 years during which I've had to sit through many many talks given by scientists who study cosmology from various places. So while all this time idled away in grad school may mean I know bugger all about most of the world, the one thing I can say for sure is the field of cosmology does not contain religion and is HARD science.
Personally I wish those fields you mentioned did interact more, might make for some more interesting talks and certainly would make for mroe well rounded scientists......
"Soft Science"???? spoken like someone who has wikipedia'd the word cosmology. Actually maybe even not that. As an astro researcher who finds cosmology really really boring, I still have to give it the credit that it is probably the most math based science out there(with perhaps the exception of math, although even then......) and so is very definitely "HARD science" in all senses of the words. If you think actual cosmology study is an intersection including religion then you must be reading those wonderful pamphlets given out by the Kentucky School Board....The Spaghetti Monster still moves.......
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Ah see that's where you are completely wrong. I do own it! I actually purchased the word "cosmology" on e-bay a few days ago for a bid of $3.27. Now that I have the rights to it, I am letting everyone know I am charging $0.10 per usage, meaning this thread owes me ...oh ~$200.
But since no one else is reading this, bar you and me, sure we are both correct :-)
First of definitions are meant to be narrow, that's why they are definitions so you know exactly what the words mean. second it was the soft science label i was objecting to. and lastly for better or worse I've been studying astronomy at undergrad and grad level for 10 years during which I've had to sit through many many talks given by scientists who study cosmology from various places. So while all this time idled away in grad school may mean I know bugger all about most of the world, the one thing I can say for sure is the field of cosmology does not contain religion and is HARD science. Personally I wish those fields you mentioned did interact more, might make for some more interesting talks and certainly would make for mroe well rounded scientists......
"Soft Science"???? spoken like someone who has wikipedia'd the word cosmology. Actually maybe even not that. As an astro researcher who finds cosmology really really boring, I still have to give it the credit that it is probably the most math based science out there(with perhaps the exception of math, although even then......) and so is very definitely "HARD science" in all senses of the words. If you think actual cosmology study is an intersection including religion then you must be reading those wonderful pamphlets given out by the Kentucky School Board....The Spaghetti Monster still moves.......