Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of “Through the Wormhole” hosted by veteran actor Morgan Freeman. This installment will explore the shadowy universe of “dark matter”. Mirror Matter Asteroid Impacting the Earth When we look up into the sky it appears we live in a universe that is filled with light. … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fourth and final episode of Dr. Brian Greene’s acclaimed NOVA documentary series the Fabric of the Cosmos. This instalment explores the possibility that the Universe, in which we live, is but one of an infinite multitude of Universes that make up an infinite Multiverse. Universe or Multiverse Hard as … Read more
More than likely it didn’t. So then what? Is the universe cyclic, with no known beginning? Of course, this is the kind of model Roger Penrose proposed in Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (2010). You can read more about Penrose’s conformal cyclic cosmology theory at Wikipedia. What If the Universe … Read more
Fascinating . . . . What Is the Universe? Real Physics Has Some Mind-Bending Answers Science says the universe could be a hologram, a computer program, a black hole or a bubble—and there are ways to check By Victoria Jaggardsmithsonian.com September 15, 2014 The questions are as big as the universe and (almost) as old … Read more
This is a 10-part series from The Open University, featuring Professor Russell Stannard exploring the BIG questions – What is consciousness? What is free will? What caused the Big Bang? What is time? Each “episode” is relatively short, between 7 and 14 minutes, so these are bite size examinations of the big questions. The Boundaries … Read more
I have only skimmed this article, but I see in this Big History approach the possibility of its use in integral theory to replace Ken Wilber’s teleological version of cosmological evolution. This could only be a good thing for integral theory since Wilber’s misconceptions about evolution have been widely criticized. By way of clarification, here … Read more
From the io9 Space page, the has been an announcement of an impending announcement, i.e., today it was announced that there will be a press conference tomorrow by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The speculation is that they may announce having discovered gravitational waves (the last predicted by unseen element in Einstein’s General Theory of … Read more
If you, like me, did not see the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos reboot (and not having tv, there was no way for me to watch it live), Hulu has made it available for free to those in the United States (sorry to the rest of 6.7 billion people on the Earth). Watch … Read more
If we conceive of the universe as a kind of fluid, the physics of the cosmos makes a lot more sense (at least in my limited understanding). This cool article from Quanta Magazine offers a fluid model of the cosmos. Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe By: Natalie Wolchover February 12, 2014A new … Read more