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  • Multiverse: One Universe or Many

    The inflationary theory of cosmology, an enduring theory about our universe and how it was formed, explains that just after the Big Bang, the universe went through a period of rapid expansion. This theory has been critical to understanding what’s going on in the cosmos today. But now, this long-held notion—which seems to suggest as-yet-unproven…

  • The Genetics of Spacetime

    It is interesting to discover a thought process that one can tap into which allows us to think in the way that we do?;) I’ll explain a bit more after you read the quote and link supplied. http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/4291413264/ If our experience of time and space share similar neural correlates, it begets a fundamental question: are…

  • Two Paul Steinhardt Projects: "Cyclic Universe" and "Quasicrystals"

    Two Paul Steinhardt Projects: “Cyclic Universe” and “Quasicrystals” Paul Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of Physics and Astrophysical… Quasi-elegance….As a young student first reading Weyl’s book, crystallography seemed like the “ideal” of what one should be aiming for in science: elegant mathematics that provides a complete understanding of all physical possibilities. Ironically, many…

  • All-sky map

    All-sky map of the CMB, created from 9 years of WMAP data Comparison of CMB results from COBE, WMAP and Planck – March 21, 2013. Working out what happened in the moments after the Big Bang is difficult. Scientists can come up with theories, but in the end they are useful only if they can…

  • Hmmmm…Pringles Potato Chip Still?

    Solving quantum field theories via curved spacetimes by Igor R. Klebanov and Juan M. Maldacena IN their figure 2. Hyperbolic space, and their comparative relation to the M.C.Escher’s Circle Limit woodcut, Klebanov and Maldacena write, ” but we have replaced Escher’s interlocking fish with cows to remind readers of the physics joke about the spherical…

  • Preposterous Universe Episode 1: Thought-Reading in 5 Years?

    Preposterous Universe Episode 1: Thought-Reading in 5 Years?  Sean’s Post: New Video Project Obama Proposes Brain Mapping Project  See Also: Sensor Developments for Human Condition Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves Self-organization Dialogos of Eide

  • Think About Nature on Edge.Org

    Lee Smolin The main question I’m asking myself, the question that puts everything together, is how to do cosmology; how to make a theory of the universe as a whole system. This is said to be the golden age of cosmology and it is from an observational point of view, but from a theoretical point…

  • John Legend: "True Colors"

    http://www.ted.com/talks/john_legend_true_colors.html See Also: Color of Gravity 4 Dialogos of Eide

  • Slac-All Access

    Three hundred and fifty miles overhead, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope silently glides through space. From this serene vantage point, the satellite’s instruments watch the fiercest processes in the universe unfold. Pulsars spin up to 700 times a second, sweeping powerful beams of gamma-ray light through the cosmos. The hyperactive cores of distant galaxies spew…

  • Geometric Patterns At the Basis of Reality

    Western psychological interpretations According to the psychologist David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one “to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises.”[26] The psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the mandala…

  • Who is the Clockmaker?

    Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) – oil painting by Salvador Dalí I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? From Cosmic religion: with other…