To the Editor:
Re “A Beautiful New Peek Into the Historical Cosmos” (entrance web page, July 13):
Human beings are a exceptional toolmaking species, with an insatiable curiosity, creativeness and a craving to discover and perceive. In that very human spirit, ingenious astrophysicists, mathematicians and engineers have roaringly entered stage left, giving the world the James Webb House Telescope.
These modern-day explorers are making it potential for us to gaze many light-years throughout area with far better readability, and to see ever nearer to the universe’s starting billions of years in the past. They’re familiarizing us with the brilliance of innumerable galaxies showing deceptively to coast in area, the churning delivery and loss of life of stars, and the growing variety of exoplanets circling the cosmos’s different suns.
We is likely to be excused for locating this new window on the world, together with our place and mission within the roiling universe, emboldening and humbling on the identical time.
Keith Tidman
Bethesda, Md.
To the Editor:
The James Webb House Telescope’s out-of-this-world photographs propelled me to the primary phrases in Genesis, “At first …” — and as near God as I’ve ever felt. Let this be a starting of sunshine.
Suzanne Levine
New Haven, Conn.
To the Editor:
Re “Gawking in Awe on the Universe,” by Shannon Stirone (Opinion visitor essay, July 13):
Ms. Stirone fantastically describes the context by which the early photographs from the James Webb House Telescope match.
Nonetheless, in her enthusiasm, she goes one step too far. The Webb Telescope and future thrilling scientific endeavors will undoubtedly present many new solutions on how the universe developed and whether or not or not we’re alone in it. However science won’t ever reply the query “Why.”
Why the universe exists and why the evolution of life developed on our Earth and led to clever and sentient people are questions which were addressed by philosophers and spiritual leaders, however they’re unanswerable. That is the really superior thriller of our lives.
Norman J. Sissman
Sleepy Hole, N.Y.
To the Editor:
If, as many astronomers suspect, there may be plentiful life all through the huge expanse portrayed within the Webb photographs, then many because of the Creator(s) for having the knowledge to maintain huge distances between planets so the inhabitants can hurt solely themselves, not others.
David Smollar
San Diego
How Abortions Profit Males
To the Editor:
Re “The Voices of Males Affected by Abortion” (information article, July 4):
What’s lacking in most abortion protection is its profit to males. Once I was an abortion counselor within the Nineteen Seventies, the most typical response of the lads accompanying sufferers was aid — and with good cause. They’re relieved of the time, cash and energy of elevating a baby they didn’t plan to have.
They’re usually fathers struggling to offer for the kids they have already got. They wish to ensure that the ladies they care about don’t face the foremost dangers of a botched abortion or carrying a being pregnant to time period.
Briefly, abortion advantages males, ladies and the kids they’ve or could have sooner or later, together with society and the nation as a complete. These women and men are taking accountability for his or her lives. What’s irresponsible are merciless and harmful actions that deny this actuality.
Naomi Fatt
Brooklyn
Decreased Media Protection of Ukraine
To the Editor:
One of many issues that has frightened me in the previous few months is the lowered protection the information media are giving to the battle in Ukraine, particularly when put next with the better protection early on after Russia’s invasion. And even when there may be protection of Ukraine, it appears to take a again seat to different tales corresponding to inflation, the Jan. 6 committee, gun violence, rising divisions inside each the Democratic and Republican Events, and hypothesis concerning the consequence of the 2022 election.
Why do I fear? Russia consultants initially thought Vladimir Putin’s determination to invade Ukraine was a calculated gamble, primarily based on the assumption that he might simply and rapidly win the battle. This wager was predicated on Mr. Putin’s assumptions that People would lose curiosity in Ukraine and that NATO and European international locations over time won’t stay unified.
Communication analysis demonstrates how the amount and perspective of media tales have an effect on what the general public thinks is vital. Put merely, the media performs what students name an “agenda setting” perform. In consequence, we should surprise if the media’s present protection of Ukraine is definitely serving to to make Mr. Putin’s gamble much less of of venture — and extra of a positive wager.
Richard Cherwitz
Austin, Texas
The author is professor emeritus on the Moody School of Communication, the College of Texas at Austin.
To the Editor:
Re “Can a Democrat Appeal to Rural Voters by Taking On Forms?,” by Farah Stockman (Opinion, July 4):
Democrats, due to their reliance on authorities laws and applications of their insurance policies, have a specific obligation to make sure an efficient and environment friendly authorities, one that really works.
As a lot as Republicans have labored for many years to undermine authorities features, Democrats have ignored the problem, as an alternative providing proposals that put new laws on high of previous laws and new applications on high of previous applications.
A simplified and environment friendly authorities might serve liberal Democratic insurance policies significantly better than the present muck in our authorities businesses.
Frank Z. Riely Jr.
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Supply: NY Times
