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hey, where are those galaxy clusters going?
weird things | November 19th 2009 by Greg Fish
One of my first posts on this blog was about something referred to as a dark flow, a strange current carrying galaxy clusters to the edge of the visible universe. But last year it was just a speculation based on preliminary data. Today, the results h read more
Five Finger Death Punch the Multiverse
Atheism is Dead | November 17th 2009 by Mariano
I wished to present a neat, simple and powerful five fingered death punch to the concept of the multiverse.The multiverse is a mythological tale which some atheists accept when evidence contradicts their preferred theories/worldviews.Here are the fiv read more
Watch Online Perestroika 2009
Watch Free Online Movies | November 14th 2009 by Mat Nayie
Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal que read more
The Red Cell of FPC-LvKS: The Akashic Field: Part I
lead design plan | November 12th 2009
This post comes from Grant Martin at redcell-fpc-lvks.blogspot.com. The Red Cell of FPC-LvKS: The Akashic Field: Part IIn the coming weeks I will attempt to explain parts of a book called Science and the Akashic Field (http://www.anandavala.info/TAST read more
Low on Lithium? If the Star's the Size of the Sun: It's Probably…
Apathetic Lemming of the North | November 11th 2009 by Brian Gill
"60-Year-Old Solar Mystery Finally Explained" Space.com (November 11, 2009) "The search for planets beyond our solar system may be a little easier, thanks to a new comparison of sun-like stars that has revealed a key difference in the chemistry of st read more
Supernova “Standard Candle” In Doubt
Gonzo Science | November 9th 2009 by Gonzo Science
Anomalous supernova resists categorization, and since supernovas are thought to be so standard they can help measure cosmic distances, …it raises questions as to whether type 1 supernovae are still useful as standard candles to measure cosmic d read more
Perestroika (2009) DVDRip
Download4Fun | November 9th 2009 by Saske
Top astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg has spent the past 17 years working in the United States. An invitation to speak at a Congress on Cosmology in his native Moscow brings him home for the first time to confront colleagues, and unanswered personal qu read more
"...craziness has a fine history in physics"
Science On Tap | November 9th 2009 by arj
...so says a NY Times piece on the start-up attempts for the Large Hadron Collider, and a new theory pushed by some that the device is doomed or at least jinxed, by the very Higgs boson for which it is searching... this is cosmology gone wild... but, read more
A Quantum Deity
Broken Whole: a California tale of Craziness, Creativity and… | November 7th 2009 by Keith
A little known fact about quantum mechanics is that it disproves God's omniscience. Now, we all know that a watched pot never boils. What does this have to do with God's omniscience? Well, did you also know that an unwatched electron doesn't really e read more
'That's Odd' - a New Kind of Supernova
Apathetic Lemming of the North | November 7th 2009 by Brian Gill
"New Type of Supernova Discovered" Space.com (November 5, 2009) "A new type of supernova – the explosive death of a star – has been discovered in which helium detonates on the surface of a white dwarf star. "The exploding star, dubbed SN2002bj, w read more
Impossible Teleportation
Bruceleeeowe's blog | November 7th 2009
This time the idea of teleporting matter existed only in science fiction and the dense equations of quantum theory. As a result of experiments conducted in Europe since then, the notion that matter can be moved fr read more
Special Post:Warp Drive
Bruceleeeowe's blog | November 7th 2009
We have always fascinated towards faster than light travel. And we really need it to explore more and more for the sake of science. Here are some some files I’m uploading here for better understanding of faster than light travel. Faster Than Li read more
Is Time Travel Possible? Why Time Travel Is Possible?
Bruceleeeowe's blog | November 7th 2009
In one of the wildest developments in serious science for decades, researchers from California to Moscow have recently been investigating the possibility of time travel. They are not, as yet, building TARDIS lookalikes in their laboratories; but they read more
What A View!
Science On Tap | November 7th 2009 by arj
"Cosmic web" of galaxies viewed for first time: http://ow.ly/zFls http://ow.ly/zFlsvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3 read more
Space Aliens, Stars, Scientists, and This is Where I Came In
Apathetic Lemming of the North | November 5th 2009 by Brian Gill
"Stars May be Cosmic Road Signs to Intelligent Aliens" Space.com (November 5, 2009) "When scientists search the heavens for habitable worlds beyond Earth, they don't necessarily know what to look for. A new study has found that the most probable plac read more
Kavli Fellowship in Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK
SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT LOANS | November 5th 2009 by Ahmad Izzuddin
Kavli Fellowship in Cosmology Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge Vacancy Reference No: LG05842 Limit of tenure applies* The Kavli Institute for Cosmology, a newly established research institute at the University of Cambridge, is offering read more
Mother of stars
Jan Freeman's Wanderings | November 4th 2009 by Jan Freeman
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team Official comment: An eerie pillar of star birth in the Carina Nebula rises from a sea of greenish-colored clouds. More can be viewed here From Jan: The Hubble Telescope shows us an object containing star read more
Cosmic Web Spotted: Filaments of Galaxies
Apathetic Lemming of the North | November 3rd 2009 by Brian Gill
"Huge Galaxy Cluster Hints at Universe's Skeleton"Space.com (November 3, 2009)"A gigantic, previously unknown set of galaxies has been found in the distant universe, shedding light on the underlying skeleton of the cosmos." 'Matter is not distributed read more
String Theory Cosmology: Review
Bruceleeeowe's blog | November 3rd 2009
A big complicating factor in understanding string cosmology is understanding string theories. String theories and M theory appear to be limiting cases of some bigger, more fundamental theory. Until that’s sorted out, anything we think we know t read more
The Illusion of Materialism
WAKING GOD | November 2nd 2009 by Philip Harris
The following excerpt from an article on the illusion of reality gives great insights into what we DO NOT know about the world in which we live. The complete article is on http://www.integralscience.org/materialism/materialism.htmlEven though it was read more
Finding balance between Chinese medicine and running a Chinese me…
Deepest Health | October 30th 2009 by Eric Grey
It’s been hard for me to write lately. It’s mostly because when I look at my old entries, particularly those that got a lot of attention, they are nothing like what I think about and write about now. During my second year, and the summer read more
Logical Positivism and Cosmology
Choose Your Beliefs | October 29th 2009 by Lowell Ballard
When I went through a course on Relativity, the professor said that relativity was at its foundation based on the philosophy of logical positivism (i.e., the only meaningful discussion is of observations, no discussion of a larger reality is meaningf read more
NASA Studying Recipe for a Planet
Apathetic Lemming of the North | October 29th 2009 by Brian Gill
"Simulations Show How Earth-Like Planets Can Form" Space.com (October 29, 2009) "NASA has long followed the water and chemical building blocks of life in the course of space exploration. But most computer simulations that help scientists understand h read more
God does not Explain Things; Things Explain God
Antioch Abouna | October 29th 2009 by Fr. Gregory Hallam
Humans have always tried to understand the world around them, if only to survive, and to value their place in it in order to enjoy life as beings conscious of death. In this context the theology of primitive animist faiths can be seen as a certain s read more
A Universe From Nothing
Open Parachute | October 28th 2009 by Ken Perrott
The origin of the universe is one of the biggest questions there is. Some people resort to easy answers – which don’t answer anything. But its good to know that others do take the question seriously and actively research it. Here is a gre read more
Quantum gravity theories wiped out by a gamma ray burst
apple ipcc academies 2050 | October 28th 2009 by apple ipcc academies 2050
One of the awkward aspects of modern physics is that its two most successful fields, relativity and quantum mechanics, are fundamentally incompatible, as things happen in the quantum world that read more
At Home In The Garden Of God
Exploring Our Matrix | October 28th 2009 by James McGrath
I received an e-mail today about a new book on theological cosmology, from which the table of contents, preface and first chapter are available online for free.The book is The Garden of God: A Theological Cosmology (Theology and the Sciences) by Alej read more
Everything You Need to Know About Black Holes - One Week Late
Colin McAllister’s Blog | October 28th 2009 by Colin McAllister
A lecturer asked me to recommend a web site where students could read online news about Information Technology. One site that comes to mind is eWeek.com. It provides a good digest of recent ICT news, but I have heard it described as read more
Fastest Supercomputer in the World Models Dark Matter, HIV Family…
Technology Review | October 27th 2009 by Sherin Jacob
Petaflop power in action In November of last year, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory switched on Roadrunner, the world’s fastest computer. IBM and the Department of Energy built the machine to model nuclear explosions, but two new s read more
collapsing the waveform on quantum physics
weird things | October 26th 2009 by Greg Fish
Recently, the editors at Discover thought it was a good idea to spice up an interview with Roger Penrose by using a loud, splashy title which states that the famous physicist thinks that the modern achievements in his discipline might as well be junk read more
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