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  • 13.7 Billion Years(Gamma Ray Burst)

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5PGFMiuyA%5D A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA’s Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. In this video, former Penn State University graduate student Antonino Cucchiara discusses this research at a press conference at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society…

  • Lost in Translation

    Photo Credit: NASA Supernova Remnant Turns 400Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of the nearby planets. Now, astronomers using NASA’s three Great Observatories are unraveling the mysteries of the expanding remains of…

  • The Radius of the Little Circle

    Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity in their definition. Alain Connes With such a statement, the “purity of thought,” is speaking…

  • The History of "Star Shine to Now"

    In “The String Saga of Star Shine” I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I begin I wanted to link Lubos’s mention of article from David G to him, to point out the method and determinacy with which I gave the “String Saga…

  • The String Saga of Star Shine?

    So lets say that the universe has always existed? Imagine approximately 13 billion years as a length of time measured? The Distant Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050904. Image credit: ESO Mon, 12 Sep 2005 – An Italian team of astronomers have found a gamma ray burst that blew up 12.7 billion light-years away – the most…