Before our eyes, in a flash, politics has gone cosmic … Can … and will … the civilised part of humanity disarm the barbarians who would use the ultimate knowledge for the ultimate destruction?                                       Charles Krauthammer, after the 9/11 attacks  Charles Krauthammer is one of the political analysts who attempt to view current human affairs on their grandest scale, in the context of Western science’s illumination of the immense and ancient universe, and humankind’s status within it as a recently evolved rare and complex form of matter. He notes our planet’s existence for some 4.6 billion years, intelligent life…