{"id":41304,"date":"2022-10-07T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=41304"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:12:02","slug":"modern-cosmology-is-untenable-for-a-free-thinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/modern-cosmology-is-untenable-for-a-free-thinker\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Cosmology is Untenable for a Free Thinker"},"content":{"rendered":"Matthew E. Kenyon is a lifelong student of Rudolf Steiner as well as a Ph.D. physicist who has worked for NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over twenty years on various projects including next-generation technology for future space telescopes beyond the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. This essay reflects his effort to reconcile his spiritual and professional work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom the perspective of conventional science, the cosmology of Rudolf Steiner found in his \u2039Outline of Occult Science\u203a and elsewhere in Anthroposophy appears fantastical. Why? Because conventional science assumes that past epochs of the evolution of Earth as well as the universe as a whole can be understood by extrapolating experiences of present conditions into the past. Perhaps in no other field of<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew E. Kenyon is a lifelong student of Rudolf Steiner as well as a Ph.D. physicist who has worked for NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over twenty years on various projects including next-generation technology for future space telescopes beyond the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. This essay reflects his effort to reconcile his spiritual and professional work. From the perspective of conventional science, the cosmology of Rudolf Steiner found in his \u2039Outline of Occult Science\u203a and elsewhere in Anthroposophy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17838,"featured_media":41316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8825,8844],"tags":[8798],"class_list":["post-41304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-math-astronomy","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}