Glazebrook doesn't have a name for the color besides 'Gamma IIIE' and says, 'Good luck if you can see the difference between this color and white.' You can be the winner of a 'name the color of the universe' contest. That's the way scientists think when they're thinking outside the box. On 'Karl Glazebrook's Boring Home Page,' as the astronomer beigely calls his collections of academic papers, vacation photos and cartoon space aliens, he has a color sample of 'the color an observer would see if they had the universe in a box and could see all the light at once.' We all got C-minuses in science courses, but we perk up if some eggheads clone a cat, discover that Big Macs really are good for people or claim we're living in a limitless turquoise bead - thus raising the question of whose necklace this might be. Scientists can be funny, and Glazebrook and Baldry intended their original report on the turquoise universe as 'a lark,' a footnote to their work on the cosmic spectrum, faint high-redshift galaxies and other stuff the press would never notice.īut we sure did notice that sentence in January about how the universe is the color of a piece of hippie jewelry. A righteous God, the God of the Old Testament or Milton, would not create heavens the color of a muffin, Al Gore's sport shirt or the interior of a Camry.

One more example of the new austerity.Īnd it's one more example of a scientific attack on God. Last week, Glazebrook and Baldry said they found 'a bug in our coding.' Sorry, the universe is beige. Turquoise may not be pink or lavender, but it's a San Francisco kind of color, and we always knew San Francisco was the center of the universe.

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