This is an anti-rationality quote from Lovecraft, and has little to do with anything under discussion. What makes you think that trying to understand the early universe is likely to cause insanity or anything similar?
I just wonder why the prevailing cosmological model in my lifetime has mysteriously come into question. Does the act of observing the universe somehow change its inferable past?
That model isn’t that old. So if you were living say ~50 years ago the prevaling model of the time would also have come into question (and been overturned).
This is an anti-rationality quote from Lovecraft, and has little to do with anything under discussion. What makes you think that trying to understand the early universe is likely to cause insanity or anything similar?
I just wonder why the prevailing cosmological model in my lifetime has mysteriously come into question. Does the act of observing the universe somehow change its inferable past?
What does that wondering that have to do with the quote in question?
Almost certainly not, but what does this have to do with anything under discussion?
That model isn’t that old. So if you were living say ~50 years ago the prevaling model of the time would also have come into question (and been overturned).