Chardin

[shar-dan]

noun

1. Jean Baptiste Siméon 1699–1779, French painter.

2. Pierre Teilhard de Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.

Chardin

/ ʃardɛ̃ /

noun

1. Jean-Baptiste Siméon (ʒɑ̃batist simeɔ̃). 1699–1779, French still-life and genre painter, noted for his subtle use of scumbled colour

Example Sentences

Colbert is gracious and polite, keeping a quote from the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — “Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God” — affixed to his computer and remembering the quote his parents would often invoke from French philosopher Léon Bloy, who said that the only sadness is not to be a saint.

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But antigravity avoids that problem, Chardin says, and it could also do away with two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology: the mysterious dark matter whose gravity keeps the galaxies intact and the even weirder dark energy that is stretching space and accelerating the expansion of the universe.

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Gabriel Chardin, a cosmologist with CNRS, France’s national research agency, says, “It’s a beautiful experiment by outstanding people” and “a blow” to speculative theories that assume antimatter experiences antigravity—but not yet a fatal wound.

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For example, in 2012 Chardin and a colleague hypothesized that the universe might contain equal amounts of matter and antimatter, with the latter subject to antigravity.

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“Pure antigravity is excluded,” Chardin says.

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