Brian Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist
The numbers
3 + 1 = 4
Lo Shu grid
Missing: 5, 8. Present digits repeat to show how many times they occur.
Life path 4 — The Builder
Four is the square, the table, the four walls. The tradition gives it method, endurance and an appetite for the unglamorous middle of a project where everyone else has lost interest. It is read as the most trustworthy number and the least celebrated one. Its tension is rigidity — a system built carefully enough becomes hard to change, and 4 is described as defending the structure after the structure has stopped serving the purpose.
Complete lines
Line of Reason
A complete line in the grid.
Line of Action
The 8-1-6 row complete. Read as follow-through — the traditional marker of someone whose plans reliably become events.
Line of Expression
A complete line in the grid.
Cooperation
A complete line in the grid.
Care
A complete line in the grid.
What is missing
Missing 5
The centre of the grid, so its absence is weighted heavily. Read as difficulty adapting mid-course — a preference for the plan already chosen over the plan now indicated.
Missing 8
Read as discomfort with power and money — not incapacity, but an unwillingness to claim authority openly.
Vedic — Ank Jyotish
Moolank 6 comes from the day of the month alone; Bhagyank 4 from the whole date. They differ, which is the ordinary case — the two numbers answer different questions.
Shukra
Venus. Art, pleasure, relationship. Read as attraction and aesthetic sense.
Bhagyank uses the same arithmetic as the Western life path, so the two will always agree. That is not two traditions confirming each other — it is one calculation under two names.
In their words
As we discover , we suffer from a variety of s, both in our nearby and distant searches. The most significant effect is – a selection effect which leads brightness limited searches finding brighter than average objects near their sensitivity limit. This bias is caused by the larger volume in which bright objects can be uncovered compared to their fainter counterparts. Malmquist bias errors are proportional to the square of the intrinsic dispersion of the distance method, and because SN Ia are such accurate distance indicators, these errors are quite small – approximately 2%. We use s to estimate these effects, and remove their effects from our s.
… one does not expect a . To my mind, I was genuinely surprised because when you make a discovery of acceleration–well, what causes the acceleration? Well, we give it a name–'–but we don't understand it yet. I would not be surprised if we don't understand it during my lifetime. Without understanding it, I felt it wouldn't be worthy of a Nobel Prize. The fact that it was given pretty timely–you know, I was only 44 last year–was a bit of surprise.
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