 What does Niemand intend to communicate through referencing the line from Julius Caesar?
This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. In the closing days of December, 1957, at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York, Dr. Niemand delivered a paper entitled simply, "On the Nature of the Solar S-Regions." These implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. I suppose you might say my main job today is to find out all I can between activity on the Sun and various forms of activity on the Earth. What do you mean by activity on the Sun? NIEMAND. I'm afraid I can't say just what a sunspot is. In what way? NIEMAND. It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity. There is unquestionably a correlation between sunspots and disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field ... Now, Dr. Niemand, I understand that you have been investigating solar and terrestrial relationships along rather unorthodox lines. I think our biggest advance was the discovery that sunspots themselves are not the direct cause of the disturbances we have been studying on the Earth. Whereas the real cause is an invisible filterable virus. Let's see ... remember that speech from "Julius Caesar" where Cassius is bewailing the evil times that beset ancient Rome? In the Sun? NIEMAND. Philosophers have wrestled with it ever since the days of Job. Man at last seemed to be making progress toward some higher goal.
 We are not as in control of our behavior as we would like to think
 Sunspot-related disturbances have been negatively impacting humans prior to the Roman empire  We are more in control of our behavior than we think  Sunspot-related disturbances have been negatively impacting humans prior to the Middle Ages  We are not as in control of our behavior as we would like to think