INGERSOLL: Is Victor Glover A Historical First Black Or Merely A Christian? |
INGERSOLL: Is Victor Glover A Historical First Black Or Merely A Christian?
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - APRIL 01: NASA Artemis II pilot Victor Glover blows kisses as he leaves the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 01, 2026 in in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft will take the astronauts around the moon and back, 230,000 miles out into space and the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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We made a trip around the moon. And the lead astronaut had a message conservatives around the country celebrated.
Is there more to the story?
At the very core of hard science, in the deepest fabric of what we call the universe, lies an unsolvable mystery.
It’s called various names – The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, The Measurement Problem – but they all boil down to the same thing and the same problem. Mathematically, particles occupy multiple states simultaneously until we observe them. Once we do, they snap into one or another state.
Confoundingly, measuring one state – velocity or position – ensures the other remains in a “superposition,” multiple states simultaneously. If you look at where, the when is multiples. If you look at when, the where is multiples.
This isn’t an instrument issue. It’s a fundamental property of the universe we live in.
The mystery was popularized most memorably by the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment. If you put a cat in a box with a delicate cyanide capsule and close the box, there’s no way to tell if the cat is alive or dead unless you open the box.
From the position of the observer, the cat is........