Category: Cosmology
Technical limits on the colliders needed for fundamental physics
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“A major reason why things look gloomy for another generation of colliders is that it’s not clear what to build.” more
Gamma ray bursts as source of highest energy particles “all but ruled out”?
| April 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
“Astrophysicists believed that only two sources could make them: supermassive black holes in active galaxies, or so-called gamma ray bursts. ” more
Study: No evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the Sun.
| April 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“This may mean that attempts to directly detect dark matter particles on Earth are unlikely to be successful.” more
Dark energy is accelerating expansion of the universe?
| April 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
Their discovery was based on the measurement of exploding stars called Type 1a supernovae. more
A “ratings agency” for cosmology theories?
| April 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“This would provide young scientists with more objective information about what subfields are doing well and worth getting involved with, as opposed to those which are lingering on despite a lack of progress. ” more
Was Anders Breivik “not-insane”?
| April 10, 2012 | Posted by DLH under Animal minds, Cosmology, Darwinism, Design inference, Ethics, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, language, News, Philosophy, Religion, Science, worldview issues and society, Society |
Other psychiatrists now find Norway massacre gunman Anders Behring Breivik ‘not insane’ – prison now possible “The experts’ main conclusion is that the accused, Anders Behring Breivik, is not considered to have been psychotic at the time of the actions on July 22, 2011,” the Oslo district court said in a statement which reopens the… more
From The Best Schools: Lawrence Krauss, Illusionist
| April 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
Not content to embarrass himself by claiming that science has solved the age-old riddle of why there is something rather than nothing, when all he’s really done is change the subject, … more
Exoplanets found that are nearly 13 billion years old?
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Exoplanets, News |
Obviously, this makes no sense in terms of conventionally accepted timelines for the universe. more
It doesn’t sound like Larry Krauss has sold the New York Times reviewer …
| March 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
In a backward northern country, people are accustomed to say, in such uncertain cases, “Fine. Whatever you say. See you on the ice tomorrow.” more
David Coppedge on Fox News …
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, News |
“He described accusations that he was essentially using his position to advocate religious beliefs as ‘foolish.’” more
Peer review and atheism: “These men and women have built their entire worldview on atheism,” says physicist Frank Tipler
| March 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
“They would be exceedingly reluctant to admit that any result of science could be valid if it even suggested that God could exist.” more
Coppedge is allowed to show a DVD at the wrongful dismissal trial
| March 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Courts, News |
“‘The only way this court is going to understand if he was rightly accused of something, religious harassment … is to look at the DVD,’ Becker said.” more
Templeton now funding “What There Is and Why There Is Anything” blog
| March 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
Doesn’t sound like an easy question to answer, but good for current Templeton grants. more
From The The Best Schools: “What part of nothing don’t you understand, Dr. Krauss?”
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“Krauss doesn’t get it. He titles one of his chapters “Nothing is something.”” more
The lunatic multiverse surely means that the materialists are losing.
| February 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“The multiple-universe idea severely limits our hopes to understand the world from fundamental principles.” more
Fiftieth anniversary of John Glenn’s space walk February 20 1962
| February 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, News |
By the way, it’s apparently not true that when Glenn returned to space at 77, they wouldn’t let him walk for fear he’d wander off … more
Darwinian cosmologist Lee Smolin: “theories which embrace the evolution of laws have a better chance …”
| February 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
” … than do theories which try to hold onto to the notion that law is eternal.” more
“string theory, while dazzling, has outrun any conceivable experiment that could verify it”
| February 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“Yet, like some outsiders, string theorists labor away year after year, happily unencumbered by reality.” more
Large Hadron Collider: “Leaving in tatters the extra-dimensional speculative universe”
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“and this is likely to be one of its main legacies.” more
Hidden within Maxwell’s equations is the speed of light …
| February 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
” … they still blow me away and show how ordered the universe is, even down to light.” more