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  • Are Artifacts of CMB Right Next to Me?

     Looking back seems strange to me and that if one is to take such a position then evidence must exist in this very moment? Models of Earlier Events This may seem like a stupid question to some, but for me it is really about looking at where I exist in the universe and what exists…

  • BICEP2 Press Conference

    BICEP2 Technical Presentation Part 1 BICEP2 Technical Presentation Part 2 *** Lubos Motl is officially “link king.” :) See Also: BICEP2 Observatory in Antarctica Wayne Hu Primer Dialogos of Eide

  • We’ve Come a Long Way

    In 2003 the WMAP craft measured the very small fluctuations – about one part in 100,000 – in the temperature of the cosmic background radiation (coloured regions). These fluctuations, which are in excellent agreement with the predictions of Big Bang theory, originated during inflation and evolved under the influence of both gravity and the pressure…

  • The Universe of Sound: Subodh Patil – Collide@CERN Inspiration Part

    Dr. Subodh Patil is a cosmologist at CERN and is the inspiration partner for Bill Fontana, 2012-2013 Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN winner, during his residency at CERN. Bill began his 3-month residency at CERN at an event called “The Universe of Sound” on July 4th, 2013, in the CERN Globe of Science & Innovation. In…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Our Baby Universe with Ed Copeland and Planck Satellite

    Where do the seeds of structure in our Universe come from, and why does our Universe appear the way it does? In this talk, Ed explores what happened in those earliest moments that lead to the Universe forming itself into what it is today. He also tells us a bit of a story about how…

  • Order For Free

    One would have to understand how this may become appealing in the sense, that if one were to believe in a God, that it might as Stuart Kauffman purports, that it to be nature’s creative genius. Self-organization Self-organization is a process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an…

  • WMAP Reveals Neutrinos, End of Dark Ages, First Second of Universe

    NASA released this week five years of data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that refines our understanding of the universe and its development. It is a treasure trove of information, including at least three major findings: WMAP cosmic microwave fluctuations over the full sky with 5 years of data. WMAP cosmic microwave…

  • Circles Within Circles: Energy within the Cosmos

    The Search for Dark Matter in the Unresolved X-ray Background by Kevork N. Abazajian Figure left: False-color image of the deep exposure of the Chandra X-ray Observatory in the southern field (CDF-S).Figure right above: The (circled) resolved point sources and extended sources that are removed from this field to determine the spectrum of the remaining…

  • Wolf-Rayet star

    While I have started off with the definition of the Wolf-Rayet star, the post ends in understanding the aspects of gravity and it’s affects, as we look at what has become of these Wolf-Rayet stars in their desimination of it’s constituent properties. Similar, “in my thinking” to the expansion of our universe? Artist’s impression of…