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• Alexander B. Fry - Dark Matter Is the Commonest, Most Elusive Stuff there Is

  
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  From the incredibly cool Aeon Magazine , Alexander Fry offers an interesting look at what we know and do not know about dark matter, that 84.5% or so of the matter in the universe that we cannot see or locate. A brief overview of dark matter from Wikipedia: Dark matters existence is inferred from  ...
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• Hugons textbook on cosmology now in English translation

  
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  An English translation of Édouard Hugon, O.P.’s Cosmologia is now available from Editiones Scholasticae . The translation is the work of Francisco Romero Carrasquillo, an associate professor of philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico, who also runs the blog Ite ad Thomam . The ...
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• "Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

  
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  “Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.” - Albert Einstein [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Last day of Quantum Foundations conference at Oxford

  
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  Yesterday was the last day of the  Cosmology and Quantum Foundations  conference, a symposium that formed part of the  Establishing the Philosophy of Cosmology project at Cambridge and Oxford. There was no workshop in the  morning, but there were two weighty lectures in the afternoon, ‘Inflationary ...
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• Does the Big Bang necessarily mean we’re part of a multiverse?

  
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  A multitude of universes split off a single bit of inflating Universe in this diagram. Andrei Linde For most of its history, the idea of a multiverse was the domain of science fiction and some rare speculation from physicists. In recent years, though, the idea that our Universe may be just ...
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• New Video Map Shows Large-Scale Cosmic Structure out to 300 million Light Years

  
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  Researchers with the Cosmic Flows project have been working to map both visible and dark matter densities around our Milky Way galaxy up to a distance of 300 million light-years, and they’ve now released this new video map which shows the motions of structures of the nearby Universe in greater detail than ever ...
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• Spectacular Cosmographic Maps Chart Galaxies and Superclusters in Local Universe

  
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  Take a trip through our local universe and see the positions and movements of galaxies and clusters with this incredible new video map. In this gallery, Wired presents some of the highlights from this galactic mapping project but, if you ...        
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• Day II at Oxford

  
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  Today was the second day of the  Cosmology and Quantum Foundations  conference, a symposium that forms part of the  Establishing the Philosophy of Cosmology project at Cambridge and Oxford. The workshop this morning started with a fascinating talk by Douglas Spolyar   on a model of cosmic inflation that ...
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• Big Bang wins in new study of cosmic isotopes

  
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  An international team of scientists using one of the pair of 10-meter telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii has now shown that the early moments of our Universe closely followed the theoretical model for the genesis of the elements. Improved observational and ...
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• The Big Bang – Snazzy Names Cause Problems

  
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  The Big Bang is a pretty common term, even among non-scientists.  Though, I have to agree with Calvin that it should be called the “Horrendous Space Klablooie“. But it wasn’t any of those things.  It wasn’t big, it wasn’t a bang, it wasn’t an explosion, it wasn’t gases burning or reacting in any way.  ...
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• The fundamental properties of the universe

  
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  These six numbers constitute a recipe for a universe. Moreover, the outcome is sensitive to their values: if any one of them were to be untuned there would be no stars and no life. Is this tuning just a brute fact, a coincidence? Or is it the providence of a benign Creator? I take the view that it is neither. An ...
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• Oxford!

  
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  I’m at Oxford University this week, at the Cosmology and Quantum Foundations  conference, a symposium that forms part of the recent Establishing the Philosophy of Cosmology project at Cambridge and Oxford. Physicists don’t always accept the relevance of philosophy in the study of physics, but there is ...
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• David J. Gross: Waiting for the Next Revolution in Physics | Simons Foundation

  
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  David J. Gross: Waiting for the Next Revolution in Physics | Simons Foundation: An interview with the Nobel Prize-winner David J. Gross on the confusing state of theoretical... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• "Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that..."

  
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  “Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Biggest #void in #space is 1 billion light years across - #space - 24 August 2007 - New Scientist

  
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  The newly discovered hole is 40 times larger than the previous record holder and challenges theor...
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• Pagan Values Month: Service

  
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  Last week, the Wild Hunt blog featured a piece on “Pagans Doing Good . It started with a critique of paganism, the common complaint that there are no pagan hospitals or homeless shelters or major nonprofit groups. The writer, Heather Greene, then highlighted two activists who also happen to be pagan (and there are ...
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• Lunar Magnetism Further Refutes Evolutionary Cosmology

  
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  stock.xchng/raven2663 Cosmologists have their presuppositions about the age of the universe. When the observed data persist in troubling their beliefs, they do not abandon their erroneous ideas. Instead, they are "challenged" and try to explain the facts with unworkable conjectures. Biblical creationists do ...
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• The Universe simulated: The distribution of dark matter in a...

  
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  The Universe simulated: The distribution of dark matter in a large-scale numerical simulation of the Universe.Credit: Virgo ConsortiumSource: Measuring and Understanding the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Why I Am A Biblical Creationist

  
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  I recently read an article entitled “Young Earth-ism Cost Her Faith” which my friend Mike Duran linked to on his Facebook page. The author made a case that “many apologists for young-earth creationism (including the writers of my Christian textbooks) actually appeared to have misrepresented evolutionary ...
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• Cool: “Astronomers using the new Atacama Large...

  
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  Cool: “Astronomers using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a region around a young star where dust particles can grow by clumping... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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