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What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
Online Documentaries 4 U | 23 hours ago
Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is.He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to comple read more
Atom Smasher's Construction: 5 Years in 5 Minutes
Space Disco | September 3rd 2008 by Dave Mosher
I've posted a few times about the Large Hadron Collider here at the Space Disco blog (see here and here), and now I bring you the latest nugget-o-fun: ATLAS -- a 15.43 million-pound (aka 7,720-ton) particle detector -- has had... read more
LHC Nearing Full Operation, May Produce Black Holes
Nested Universe | September 1st 2008 by Chris Haley
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN continues on target to ramp up to full operation. The first attempt to circulate a beam of particles will be webcast live on September 10, 2008. read more
Why are we alone? The Fermi paradox.
Nested Universe | August 28th 2008 by Chris Haley
Possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox - the contradiction between estimates of life in the universe and a corresponding lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life. read more
Quote of the Day (Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams)
Exploring Our Matrix | August 21st 2008 by James McGrath
"The narrow, local kind of mythic explanation that sufficed when cultures rarely mixed will never work in the emerging global culture. We now need myths that are not only scientifically believable but allow us to participate - all of us. To experienc read more
The Struggle to Measure Cosmic Expansion
Great contains articles from the back issues of magazines, j… | August 20th 2008 by Articlesmodern.com
By DENNIS OVERBYE : Correction Appended - Hoping to understand why the universe seems to be coming apart at its seams, a young astronomer and his colleagues have embarked on one of the oldest quests in cosmology, to measure how fast the universe is g read more
How to Dump a Particle Beam of Doom
Space Disco | August 20th 2008 by Dave Mosher
Some interesting developments regarding legal activity against our atom-smashing friend, the Ginormous, er, Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Check out Cosmic Log blog by MSNBC's Alan Boyle for the full story. By the end of this post I'm going to explain. read more
You are the Rainbow
goodness graciousness | August 19th 2008 by jennifer
I woke up before dawn and drove up the windy deserted back road to the secluded waterfall.Snoqualmie Falls, in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State had been a favorite place of mine since I was a child, long before it had become the tourist attr read more
Evidence for dark energy accumulates
Science and Reason | August 18th 2008 by Charles Daney
Dark energy (in its most plausible form as a "cosmological constant") has been a hypothetical possibility almost since Einstein's publication of his general theory of relativity in 1916. (Check here for our previous discussions of dark energy.)Howeve read more
Start Me Up
Space Disco | August 15th 2008 by Dave Mosher
This post has been on the backburner for a bit -- hey, I had some Great Planet Debate action to attend to. Anyways, let's talk about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, that is under Geneva, Switzerland and part of... read more
Most of the Universe is Missing
Online Documentaries 4 U | August 15th 2008
We know what 4% of the Universe is made of. But what about the rest?There was a time, not so long ago, when science seemed to understand how the universe worked. Everything – us, the Earth, the stars and even exotic-sounding supernovae – was made read more
this could be worth finding out more about - interesting!
Cat Lover Doreen | August 10th 2008 by Doreen Payne
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy investigating principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of being and read more
We are all made of stars
disassociated.com | August 6th 2008 by John Lampard
Some scientists have held the view that we live in a finely tuned universe, and should just one constant in its composition be even slightly different to the status quo, the universe as we know it, and even life, would not exist. Fred Adams, professo read more
White House advised of pending NASA announcement regarding "poten…
Nested Universe | August 2nd 2008 by Chris Haley
White House advised of the potential for life on Mars after recent provocative findings. read more
Creation Question and Discussion
decloned | July 27th 2008 by William Lehman
A friend and I have been struggling with a question about the creation story… more about when things were created. Genesis 1 says that in the Beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth, but does that include all physical matter or is it read more
Speculations on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, the Halting Pro…
Nested Universe | July 22nd 2008 by Chris Haley
Speculations on Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, the Halting Problem, and The Simulation Argument read more
Strenghening your Weakest Point - Joseph Campbell Quote
goodness graciousness | July 16th 2008 by jennifer
"The Universe always strikes you at your weakest point because thats what most needs strengthening."Joseph Campbellhttp://goodnessgraciousness.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss read more
Boundary of the Universe?
Ibn Azam | July 14th 2008
The boundary or edge of the universe would mean a place where space ends. We exist in space and we conceive of the existence of other things in space as well. I think that should mean there's nothing outside the universe even if there is some kind of read more
The Stuff of Which Stars are Made
Apathetic Lemming of the North | July 13th 2008 by Brian Gill
"Universe-1-StarStuff.avi" Google Video "1 of 6 different documentary about the Universe and Us, comment by Sam Neill. This is a full version" Impressive, occasionally imaginative, documentary. Includes what happened when a researcher used an extreme read more
Pioneer Anomaly and steady state models
Gonzo Science | July 12th 2008 by Gonzo Science
Old news, but never hurts to visit. The most obvious theory was that something on the spacecraft themselves created a braking force–leaking gas or heat radiation, perhaps. Over the years, however, researchers increasingly viewed this hypothesis read more
mm432: Danger? You bet your asteroid there’s danger!
Left-Handed Complement | July 7th 2008 by mudge
© Andrea Danti | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings From the We Don’t Have Enough on our Plates Dept. (not me! I worry about the global economy, my home’s value, fuel prices, food shortages, and racist, redneck voters just to name fi read more
“In the Beginning…”: the Lucky Guess
Richard Dawkins : Scientist or Activist? | July 1st 2008 by Mariano
During his debate with Dr. John Lennox, Professor Richard Dawkins made an interesting remark about the Bible’s statements on the universe’s origins (hear the debate here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).The remark was actually not so much about the how o read more
the world in the eye of a needle
sean808080's ohmbase | June 29th 2008 by sean 808080
Universcale - Presented by Nikon What a fascinating use of visualization to show how things compare against each other in terms of scale. One minute you’re looking at a germ, the next a person, the next a mountain, then a planet. All very smo read more
Spiritual Relativity Theory
Love is the Ultimate Science | June 25th 2008 by Edward F. Sylvia
Besides his major cosmological idea of the constancy of the speed of light Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity also included another concept called the relativity of simultaneity. This second concept means that everyone experiences simultaneity read more
What We Still Don't Know Documentary
Online Documentaries 4 U | June 22nd 2008
Part 1 - Are we alone?Hear the word ‘alien’ and what might spring to mind is something approaching HG Wells’ vision of a warlike Martian invader from War of the Worlds. His fantastical dr read more
Omni-Science
Atheism is Dead | June 21st 2008 by Mariano
“One of the most pernicious falsehoods ever to be almost universallyaccepted is that the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth”[1]—Professor Richard H. Bube, Stanford UniversityYes my friends, I am pulling the following quotation read more
What Am I Transcended in Time?
Araling Pilipino 101 | June 19th 2008
Life begins with questions and wonders of the mysteries of the world; a struggle of truth and wisdom to know the most important part of reality. And at the edge of the puzzling existence, there is a wider vision of life. At this point, Philosophy bei read more
Mystery deepens over origin of biggest black holes
Science and Reason | June 15th 2008 by Charles Daney
Mysteries are popular, so here's a good one, about another popular subject, black holes.Mystery deepens over origin of biggest black holes (5/19/08)Where did the universe's biggest black holes come from? One idea suggests the behemoths began as small read more
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