Talk:Cosmological meaning of human life
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Someone's clearly gone to a lot of effort on this article. Unfortunately, the English is rough and not comprehensible. I don't know about this topic to help out, but maybe someone else could...
Thank you for your remark. I will take it into account and look for a native speaker Anbro 21:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Original Research Not Allowed.
This is clearly WK:OR
1Z 19:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
This certainly does have the appearance of original research. Planders 23:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The entry " Cosmological meaning of human life " it is not my own " reserch " ( or my own spectulation )
See, for example the interview with Michio Kaku .:
The Guardian - Prospect Magazine [[1]]
February 2005 | 107 » Cover story » Escape from the universe Intruductory fragment of the interview.:
[ ".. The universe is destined to end. Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe? The idea seems like science fiction, but it is consistent with the laws of physics and biology. Here's how to do it
The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze. An advanced civilisation must embark on the ultimate journey: fleeing to a parallel universe.
In Norse mythology, Ragnarok—the fate of the gods—begins when the earth is caught in the vice-like grip of a bone-chilling freeze. The heavens themselves freeze over, as the gods perish in great battles with evil serpents and murderous wolves. Eternal darkness settles over the bleak, frozen land as the sun and moon are both devoured. Odin, the father of all gods, finally falls to his death, and time itself comes to a halt.
Does this ancient tale foretell our future? Ever since the work of Edwin Hubble in the 1920s, scientists have known that the universe is expanding, but most have believed that the expansion was slowing as the universe aged. In 1998, astronomers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Australian National University calculated the expansion rate by studying dozens of powerful supernova explosions within distant galaxies, which can light up the entire universe. They could not believe their own data. Some unknown force was pushing the galaxies apart,... "] Anbro 17:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Essay-ish
I'm not particularly good at giving style advice, but unfortunately the article appears to be written like an essay rather than an encyclopedia entry. Essays are fine, but Wikipedia (an encyclopedia) is not the place to publish them. Note that I only had a brief skim of the article.
First, the article appears to present the opinions of the writer, while encyclopedic articles should only publish opinions when they are warranted, come from a reliable source and are attributed to the author of that source, per Wikipedia:Describing points of view. For example, "It is astonishing because, on the other hand, people are desperate by the lack of opinion or theories related to meaning of their existence." — an encyclopedia should not attempt to tell the reader what is astonishing and what is not.
It also leads the reader actively rather than presenting facts, e.g., "There are[sic] the need to consider if the occurrence of the self-awareness of people [...]"
For more information, you can read Wikipedia:Manual of Style. I am sorry for the wasted effort; hopefully you can find another home for this. -- intgr 20:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Style for articles about crucial, interdisciplinary human dilemmas?
Thank you for your kind letter and your advices. You are right ! but, from the other hand, it seems - there are in Wikipedia many articles, also partly in the style of an essay.
See for instance.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
It seems that, the style often resemble an essay, when the subjects of consideration touch the most futuristic and interdisciplinary topics. These topics however are important as " engines ", stimulating thinking and research in the realm of the propositions for answers for the most crucial human dilemmas.
Sometime, the sysops of Wikipedia, adopting a very puristic attitude preclude the development of the explanation of a notion according to recent scientific finding. For instance, I tried to contribute to develop the entry collective consciousness, see "history", but finally in this entry we have almost "nothing", because somebody deleted majority of the materials ( not only mine ).
Just, the problem of " meaning of human life ", especially contemporary, needs trials of explanations, what is difficult to do by a text in a very bald style.
with greetings ~~Anbro
