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• Really Recommended Posts 01/26/12

  
  J.W. Wartick - "Always Have a Reason" — Authority: 400
  Jump: Hiking the Transcendent Trail - I can’t describe how aesthetically pleasing this site is. But, apart from that, Anthony Weber outlines a basic argument from aesthetics towards the existence of God. I found this post really interesting and mind-opening. Check it out! Was Adolf Hitler a Better Man Than Martin ...
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• Planck Exclusive!

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 462
  I forgot to mention on this blog some important news about the Planck mission which many people here in the School of Physics & Astronomy at Cardiff University are heavily involved in. Here is the official announcement from The Planck Science Team home page : The High Frequency Instrument (HFI) on ...
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• Dead of Night

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 462
  It not being possible to watch Match of the Day last night – I didn’t particularly want to watch the horror story of Newcastle’s 5-2 drubbing by Fulham – I rummaged around in my stack of DVDs of old films and came up with Dead of Night. I was actually very happy to have the excuse  to watch this classic ...
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• A History Of Ancient Britain Season 1 Episode 3 Age Of Cosmology

  
  Online Videos, Watch Series Online,Tv Shows — Authority: 438
  A History Of Ancient Britain Season 1 Episode 3 Age Of Cosmology Related Posts: A History Of Ancient Britain Season 1 Episode 1 Age Of Ice A History Of Ancient Britain Season 1 Episode 5 Orkney’s Stone Age Temple A History Of Ancient Britain Season 1 Episode 2 Age Of Ancestors A History Of Ancient ...
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• Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. These so-called gravitational waves ought to be ubiquitous but faint, and no experiment has yet registered the disturbance ...
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• My Big TOE - the Complete Trilogy - Thomas Campbell

  
  Free Ebook Torrents, Download Free Ebook Torrent on the Ebooks Bay — Authority: 131
  Shared by:ForteanWritten by Thomas Campbell Format(s): MOBI Language: English My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary Western culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human ...
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• Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing

  
  Alex Torex Blog — Authority: 120
  “Krauss does want to deliver that blow: towards the end of the book, he promises that we really can have something from nothing – “even the laws of physics may not be necessary or required”. Ultimately, though, he has to perform a little sleight of hand. Space and time can indeed come from nothing; nothing, as ...
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• Stargazing (virtually) Live

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 462
  I hope you’ve all been tuning in to the BBC’s astronomy jamboree Stargazing Live . There have been two episodes so far, with one last one to follow tonight, plus a huge range of activities across the country giving members of the public the chance to look at the sky through telescopes. The programmes and other ...
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• The case for Emergence as the cause of the birth of the Universe

  
  Essays and Articles — Authority: 92
  Glancing at the evening sky and watching a flock of birdsreturn home has never failed to amaze me. Why? The seemingly coordinatedmovement of the flock is not controlled by any leader. Instead, it emergesnaturally as each individual follows a few simple rules, such as go in the samedirection as the other guy, don’t ...
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• If you’re ever in Brooklyn and want/need some drink and knowledge, check out the Secret Science Club as profiled in the New York Times

  
  Princeton University Press Blog — Authority: 414
  We were thrilled to read  Jennifer Schuessler’s terrific story on the popular phenomenon of bar lecturing (and not in an intoxicated way, but a learned way!)  Check out her story here .  It looks like alcohol and science is a powerful (and successful) formula.  The Press is pleased to have had the pleasure of ...
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• Is Space Digital? (preview)

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  Craig Hogan believes that the world is fuzzy. This is not a metaphor. Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and director of the Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Center near Batavia, Ill., thinks that if we were to peer down at the tiniest subdivisions of space and time, we would find a universe filled with an ...
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• A Sea of Spacetime Foam?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 134
  “Is space digital?” staff editor Michael Moyer poses this fundamental question in our issue’s cover story. We often speak of the fabric of space, as if it were continuous, but is it instead a kind of patchwork of jittering, foamy quantized bits? Craig Hogan, a physicist at the University of Chicago and director ...
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• Planck Spacecraft Loses Its Cool(ant) But Keeps Going

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 655
  Artists impression of the Planck spacecraft. Credit: ESA After two and a half years of observing the Cosmic Microwave Background, the ESA Planck spacecraft’s High Frequency Instrument ran out of its on-board coolant gases over this past weekend, reaching the end of its very successful mission. But that doesn’t ...
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• SN Primo Is Farthest Type Ia Supernova Discovered

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 126
  Supernova Primo originated 9 billion years ago, when its progenitor star exploded. The light was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope by a three-year project specifically trying to find Type Ia supernovae . These types of supernovae are paramount in order to discover more about the inflationary nature of our ...
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• Comprehending reality – Should we give up so easily?

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 496
  The Edge question is an annual event. Publisher John Brockman poses an interesting question to a large number of scientists, thinkers, academics and writers. He publishes their answers on the Edge website and usually, later,  as a book* The 2012 question is: What Is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, Or Beautiful ...
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• Alexander Vilenkin: “All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning”

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 562
  From Uncommon Descent . Excerpt: Did the cosmos have a beginning? The Big Bang theory seems to suggest it did, but in recent decades, cosmologists have concocted elaborate theories – for example, an eternally inflating universe or a cyclic universe – which claim to avoid the need for a beginning of the cosmos. ...
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• Post Einsteinian Language?

  
  Lifeboat News: The Blog — Authority: 416
  Twenty years ago, way back in the primordial soup of the early Network in an out of the way electromagnetic watering hole called USENET, this correspondent entered the previous millennium’s virtual nexus of survival-of-the-weirdest via an accelerated learning process calculated to evolve a cybernetic avatar from ...
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• How Wolf Fed the Scavengers

  
  Therioshamanism — Authority: 94
  Once, when this place was still new, a great famine struck the land. The sun broiled the earth, and the plants were so thirsty in the drought that they could barely keep their stems and trunks straight, never mind grow enough fruits and leaves for everyone to eat. The plant-eaters were always hungry and they grew ...
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• Laws of physics can’t be got from nothing, says Krauss’s reviewer

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  In “Trying to make the cosmos out of nothing” ( New Scientist , 11 January 2012), Michael Brooks has a look at Lawrence Krauss’s A Universe From Nothing: Why there is something rather than nothing : Yet despite its clear strengths, A Universe From Nothing is not quite, as Richard Dawkins hopefully ...
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• #6: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

  
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  A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss, Richard Dawkins (16) Release Date: January 10, 2012 Buy new: $24.99 $14.69 41 used & new from $12.50 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Books list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.) Looking ...
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