CDM Again

... was released which does state that two events were observed in the mine in Minnesota that are consistent with the Dark Matter collisions that the experiment was designed to detect. This is not enough to call proof, but it is enough to justify expanding the experiment with three times as many detectors to speed the search. This is an exciting time for both cosmologists and particle physicists.

The Big Crunch Theory

...greater than 1, then the universe will be closed. But cosmologists think there is another type of matter that can't ...better?” “Not yet. But I’ll get there.” ~*~*~*~*~ - Some cosmologists now think that something else -- something just as inexplicable ... were a closed universe. You collapsed and contracted. Some cosmologists think that after the contraction, or the big crunch,...

Стэнли Яки как философ и историк науки

...-бенедиктинец, лауреат премии Темплтона, почетный член Папской академии наук, автор ряда книг, в том числе The Savior of Science (русск. пер. Спаситель науки, 1992),  Angels, Apes and Men, God and the Cosmologists (русск. пер. Бог и космологи, 1993), Genesis I: A Cosmogenesis? (сокращенный русск. пер.  Шестоднев: космогенезис?, 1997),  The Purpose of It All и др. Стэнли Яки приезжал в СССР в июне ...

We're a very heavy island of stars

... the centripetal force to radius, and by extension any calculations of mass, all comes into question. The best part is that I've "independently" stumbled upon the reality that real astrophysicists and cosmologists face - the galaxy and the universe are more massive than what is presently known. In other words, their behaviour is not the same as what you would expect if you took everything you ...

So I was at the library today. Like any other day, I read Discover magazine and get lost in the wonderful things they write about. One of the articles how a group of cosmologists think that a) there are other universes out there, and b) they have conflicted with ours. Oh, and c) our universe might have scars of those conflicts. If I remember rightly, each universe has a constant on which ...

S02.17 - The Terminator Decoupling

...called "wrinkles" in time -- thus finding a long-anticipated missing piece in the Big Bang model. In this book, Smoot tells the remarkable tale of his quest for what has been called the cosmologists' Holy Grail. His quest for the seeds of structure in the universe consumed about twenty years. The book traces the obstacle course of discovery. In the book, Smoot describes the adventure and along the...

Hot Topic : The symmetrical universe

...weird about what’s happening here. But there are phenomena where an external nudge to the system can’t explain the symmetry breaking: the ones that are at the origin of the universe. Cosmologists are actually still debating explanations to why the universe is so dissymmetrical (the arrow of time, the four fundamental forces, the inhomogeneity of matter, etc.) whereas the equations that seem to ...

The symmetrical universe

...weird about what’s happening here. But there are phenomena where an external nudge to the system can’t explain the symmetry breaking: the ones that are at the origin of the universe. Cosmologists are actually still debating explanations to why the universe is so dissymmetrical (the arrow of time, the four fundamental forces, the inhomogeneity of matter, etc.) whereas the equations that seem to ...

historical earth

Cosmologists think that... the universe began 13.7 billion years ago   the contents of the universe include   4% atoms (ordinary matter) 23% of an unknown type of dark matter, and 73% of a mysterious dark energy our solar system was formed about 5 billion years ago the earth was formed about 4.5 billion years ago ===================================== Paleontologists think that... ...

Another “What is science?” article

... employ the convergence of evidence technique to deduce who most likely committed a crime, scientists employ the method to determine the likeliest explanation for a particular phenomenon. Cosmologists reconstruct the history of the universe by integrating data from cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics, spectroscopy, general relativity and quantum mechanics. [...] Once an inferential or historical ...