Studying astrology and distant galaxies.(BOOKS)(SCIENCE)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: June 4, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Jeffrey Marsh, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A visitor to the country cottage owned by the famous physicist Niels Bohr was surprised to see a horseshoe nailed over the door, and asked Bohr, "Surely you don't believe in that?"

Bohr replied, "Of course not, but I understand that it brings good luck whether you believe in it or not."

While the impish Bohr was presumably joking, Benson Bobrick takes very seriously the fundamental claim of astrology that celestial bodies, like Bohr's horseshoe, have a determining influence on individual human fate.

Mr. ...

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