"Some people would suggest that Natalie Angier's enlightenment utopia, in which everyone might one day agree on the fundamentals of the universe, the beautiful basics, is a false ideal; the mass has always believed in mumbo-jumbo."

Please, if anyone can show us a more fundamental beautiful basic center of being than the self-reciprocant
of unity a/k/a golden section spiral please do so, or let the mumbo-jumbo seek its black hole

.It will help to take into account the middle letter of UNiTY
to see yourself, yoU, as the center of IT, and drop IT and U into the SPIR AL..

Bliss OUT!!!!!!!

Great article!

'A geophysicist friend suggests we are at a critical crossroads just like the start of the Renaissance,' Angier says, 'where you couldn't just leave reading and writing to the kings and priests anymore. Ordinary people have to keep up. In the world we live in, the new economy, you have to become scientifically literate or you will fall quickly from view.'