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
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
A few days ago we saw that Joe the Plumber (representing the view of thousands or millions of Americans) prefers the Bible to science books because science books go through constant revisions while the Bible contains eternal, unchanging truth. Of course, Joe the Plumber and company probably don’t realize that, over the last few thousands … Read more
This famous phrase, made famous by Sir Isaac Newton, and celebrated ever since, may have been a public attempt at modesty and historical gratitude that was sure to endear him to, and inspire, subsequent generations of natural philosophers, but it may also have been a little bit of an underhanded insult to Robert Hooke, just … Read more
As it turns out, there are people who don’t quite understand the concept of a leap year. And while I was looking for pictures to post on this entry, I discovered that I wasn’t aware that there is some movie by the same name. I wasn’t impressed by the trailer, so why don’t we take … Read more