Heaven and Earth
For as long as records have been kept, men have wandered about the cosmos. What is out there? Where does it all come from? How did the universe come about? Such inquiries have served as roots for many of our dearest myths. The announcement last week of the discovery of a planet outside our solar system, and the attendant apathy which accompanied it, prompted this writer into investigating the question of why men should care about the heavens at all.