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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Ah, but any poet worth his salt is dealing in words, which in the Greek = logos which is the same root word from which we derive logic. A good poet has to be a good logician. The same is true of a good composer. In other words, anybody with a reasonably educated intelligence can think and talk about scientific phenomena profitably. All it takes is informing oneself.

Oddly enough, last night I came upon this perfect quote from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" that just seemed so fitting as an answer to your previous question:

"I can't believe THAT!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's not use trying," she said: "one CAN'T believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

There's no doubt that it exists. The question is, why is it not being studied? We might find out a lot of things that we currently are not aware of if we were to admit that this force exists on a galactic scale.

The fields are being studied, but maybe not in the framework in which you use them. Maybe 'the big pushes' happen so infrequently that we have no way to capture any data, and so resources are concentrated on what is available (with an entire universe, there's a lot to do).

But yeah, it would be "fun" (in a strange way) if a planet-sized body was seen in a chaotic path through the sky (but I wouldn't want its journey to affect earth).

Me either! Think of what a 'Tunguska event' of larger magnitude would do to any city!

Then again, there are comets. Though not so large, these are chaotic "planets" (planet = wandering star in Greek); if they were acknowledged to be, not balls of ice, but large chunks of rock with magnetic charges, what might be learned from them?

But they are balls of ice (and stuff). The results of Deep Impact showed that these dirty snow balls are made up of frozen water with bits of dust throughout. I don't think that comets are planetoid like Pluto or even Earth in nature, i.e. no iron core.

Yes. It does. Which is why I can't get enough of studying them.

Cool on that.

To make a lame attempt in staying on topic, I hope to be able to show the kids (again) the moon via a small telescope tonight. Regardless of whether it was once part of earth, is a captured planetoid, or is the beautiful Artemis or the wayward Tilion, tis still a wonderous thing to see.