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Seeing the recent pictures from the James Webb telescope I recalled an answer a Professor  
“The Salisbury Review is a glimpse of sanity in an
of Astrophysics at an Oxford College recently gave me when I asked him,
otherwise mad world” Mr N

‘Where is the Universe?’

As in ‘Where do you live, what’s your address, will I need a visitor’s parking ticket if I come
after nine am?  Talking of time, what are the Universe’s hours?

Is it above something, is anything next to it, is there anything below it or, as Einstein once
joked, does it sit on a turtle and it’s ‘turtles all the way down.’

Does it have an edge? Are there warning signs saying, ‘Edge of the Universe 2 light years
ahead ‘?
Articles in the Autumn Edition of the
In answer to these the Astrophysics Professor seized my hand and pointing to the centre magazine out next week.  
of my palm announced  
Editorial.  Two worse candidates for Prime
‘It’s there.’ Minster could not be imagined.
 
It’s not  good enough.  Here we are, all that money spent, and we still don’t know where we Mark Mantel. “Putting Beauty back in her Seat.”
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Transgender Madness: Theodore Dalrymple

Postscript. wonders why gender dysphoria attracts so much

attention as it anects only .005% of the
population.
A learned friend explained the Professor’s answer. It comes from Buddha & The Monkey: After
 
escaping from Laozi’s furnace, Sun Wukong battles his way through heaven until the Buddha is
“On the National Death.”  Myles Harris explains
called in to halt his rebellion. The Enlightened One makes him a wager that, if he can jump out
how the left has seized control of the merciless
of his hand, the macaque will become the new ruler of heaven. Monkey agrees to the wager and bureaucratic machine that is the NHS.
jumps into his palm. With one tremendous leap, Sun speeds towards the reaches of heaven,  
clouds whizzing by him in a blur of colours as he travels across the sky. He lands before Mve Craig Milne: How for lack of nuclear power the
great pillars, thinking them to be the edge of the cosmos. He tags one of the pillars with his Greens may cause you to shiver, even to die this

name and urinates at the base of another in order to prove that he had been there. Upon winter.
 
returning, he demands that the Buddha live up to his end of the bargain. Yet the Buddha
Daryl McCann: On why people smuggling matters,
explains that he had used his inMnite powers to cloud Sun’s mind, tricking him into thinking he
how Australia managed to halt it, but maybe is
had left, when he actually stayed in his hand the entire time. But before Monkey can do about to lose control of it again.
anything, the Buddha overturns his hand, pushing it out the gates of heaven, and slamming it  
onto earth, transforming it into the Five Elements Mountain (Wuxing shan, 五⾏⼭). There, Sun is Percy Carlyle: How the Conservatives have
imprisoned for his crimes against heaven (Mg. 1) (Wu & Yu, 2012, pp. 193-195). scrapped marriage.
 
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14 COMMENTS ON THE JAMES WATT TELESCOPE. NO NEWS OF CREATION’S POSTCODE

Myles Harris Myles Harris is the editor of

The Salisbury Review. Well
struck in years, he remembers
Rod Hacking 25TH JULY 2022 AT 8:08 AM when hangings were
announced in received English
by a man wearing a bow tie on
the BBC Home Service, midwives rode bicycles,
For heaven’s sake (pun intended) we don’t even know what a woman is!
Lady Almoners looked after the deserving poor in
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plus into sheep and goats.

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Anonymous 22ND JULY 2022 AT 12:08 PM

Theodore Dalrymple is a
I need another learned friend’s extra expalanation of your learned friend’s explanation of the
retired prison doctor and
Professor’s answer which intuitevely seems OK.
psychiatrist. A highly popular
Stay safe, sound & happy
journalist, he writes for
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publications including The
REPLY Times, The British Medical
Journal, The Observer, Daily Telegraph, The
Spectator and The Salisbury Review. He is also
contributing editor to City Journal, where he is
Dietrich Weismann Fellow. His books include Life
MICHAEL HARRIS 22ND JULY 2022 AT 11:43 AM
at the Bottom, Our Culture, What’s Left of It and
Spoilt Rotten.

Talking of astrophysics. A man attended an Astronomy lecture at which he looked more and
See all articles by Theodore Dalrymple and
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will grow hotter and hotter until it becomes uninhabitable”. The Prof looked down at the worried
man. He repeated that “over the next billion years disaster would strike the Earth.” The worried
man visibly relaxed; “Billion? That’s all right then; I thought you said ‘million'” You must excuse
me, I have to go and buy some potatoes. Jane Kelly Jane Kelly worked for the Daily
Mail for 15 years as a leading
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her interviewees were Hillary
Clinton, Jack Nicholson, Russell
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David ASHTON 16TH JULY 2022 AT 3:28 PM
Edwina Curry, Scarlett Johansson, Arthur Scargill,
Vanessa Redgrave and Elizabeth Taylor. She has
written two books; a biography of Colin Farrell,
The cosmos appears to have evolved brains that not only examine itself but ask why anthying and Inside – an account of working as a teacher in
exists at all. This is the biggest conundrum of all. Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London.

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Noa 16TH JULY 2022 AT 8:43 AM

RECENT COMMENTS

BRIAN ROCKFORD ON Where are you

I had a similar cheerful reading and diagnosis on my love life from the daughter of the famous
really from? Lady Hussey was right to
Gipsy Rose Petulangro on Blackpool promenade 40 years ago.
ask
I look forward to the deployment of other traditional skills, reading crystal balls, the casting of
bones and so forth, as the upcoming third world complementary sciences are introduced into
Oxford and Cambridge before percolating across academe, enhancing and replacing old BRIAN ROCKFORD ON Foot in Mouth
fashioned objectivism. Disease at the Palace

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DAVID ASHTON ON Foot in Mouth

Disease at the Palace

Myles Harris 16TH JULY 2022 AT 11:10 AM

EM-KREM ON Queering the pitch in

Qatar. A fortnight of fun ahead.
I hope the prof was being ironic. ‘Where are we?’ is the most fundamental of all
questions in science, because both ‘where’ and ‘time’ applied to the universe is
meaningless. Even the idea of the universe having no beginning and no end imports the DONG LI ON Wokery is Maoism.
notion of time, and as for ‘where’? It can’t be turtles ALL the way down to a place where
there is no bottom, but then again…..!

REPLY

Noa 16TH JULY 2022 AT 6:28 PM

I blame Schrodinger for letting the cat out of the box myself.

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David ASHTON 16TH JULY 2022 AT 10:37 PM

The universe looks like a process in development, albeit with occasionally chaotic
features such as the apparent meteoric disappearance of the dinosaurs, and
seems to have no obvious explanation for itself. Why should it? Somehow it
looks a bit too lumpy to just take for granted. Hence the cosmological arguments
from “contingency” to a Self-Existent Creator (T. Aquinas, G. W. Leibniz, G. Joyce,
F. Copleston, W. L. Craig). This however raises questions as to the nature of
“creation”, the purpose of a universe for a self-suacient Being, and why this
particular universe.
The problem of natural evil (e.g. animal pain) is another issue. But Time raises a
special issue for Christian Trinitarians such as the material composition of the
Second Person of the Single God known as Jesus now “up there”, etc.
Maybe our brains are not yet competent enough to explain why the universe
exists or produced our brains. Have we the will and ability to improve our
capacity for explanation, or for a future species or a set of robots to do so – long
after we have gone – to Heaven or Hell or Nothing?

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Editor 16TH JULY 2022 AT 11:13 PM

David Ashton, That’s all very well, but WHERE is the universe?

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David ASHTON 17TH JULY 2022 AT 1:50 PM

@ Editor (no longer putting me in your SR spam folder, thank you)

God knows, I don’t.

D D Tee 17TH JULY 2022 AT 2:00 PM

The entire universe is “outside” Time, so it must also be “outside”

Space.
WHAT is the universe? WHY is the universe? WHEN is the
universe? WHO is the universe?
It’s like amaZING!

Brian S. Rockford 17TH JULY 2022 AT 4:57 PM

How about EVERYWHERE?

John Sampson 16TH JULY 2022 AT 11:10 AM

Objectivism as per Ayn Rand or objectivity?

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N. J. Casper 17TH JULY 2022 AT 11:20 PM

@ John Sampson & Myles Harris

Look up Universe, Existence, Nature, Space, Time, Ininity, Causality, Reality,
Consciousness, Creation, Free Will and Metaphysics in the Ayn Rand Lexicon,
online. All they know – and all ye need to know?

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