An article from
New Scientist suggests that we are shortening the life of the Universe by looking at it. To which I say "foo"— primarily to the
New Scientist article, not quite so much to the scientific paper behind it. (I do not leave it completely off the hook, however.)
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Posted on November 24, 2007 11:16 AM • 4 Comments •
Astronomers have long assumed that supernovae are the source of at least most of the cosmic rays that hit Earth. Woah, slow down... cosmic rays? Right, you hear the term all the time, but do you really know what they...
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Posted on October 10, 2007 6:50 PM • 7 Comments •
Every so often you will come across somebody who has a "killer" list of "problems" with the Big Bang. While there remain unknowns and questions about the Big Bang— just as there do with biological evolution— the basic picture of...
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Posted on September 27, 2007 11:34 PM • 8 Comments •
This is mostly just an MLP ("Mindless Link Post"), and it's nearly two weeks late, but there's a post by Julianne over at Cosmic Variance that I think is of crucial importance. People who are outside the field of science...
Posted on August 18, 2007 9:15 AM • 4 Comments •
Following the talk I gave in Second Life about the discovery of the accelerating Universe, we held a couple of Q&A sessions. The original plan was to have questions right after the talk, but the Second Life main grid crashed...
Posted on August 14, 2007 10:32 PM • 2 Comments •
I managed to get through my 15-20 minute "talk," and just as I threw it open for questions Second Life had a database problem and everbody in-world had to be logged out.... We got back in 40 minutes or so...
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Posted on July 31, 2007 3:39 PM • 4 Comments •