Cosmology

Cara Santa Maria

My Evening With Stephen Hawking

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Cosmology, Kip Thorne, Stephen Hawking, Talk Nerdy to Me, Pasadena, Motor Neuron Disease, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Black Holes, Caltech, Als, Theoretical Physics, Science News

Stephen rarely does public talks anymore. When he does, he draws an impressive crowd. And most of the people sitting in those seats are unaware of the effort that goes into composing the script he will follow over the course of the evening.

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Record-Setting Megatelescope Inspires International Rivalry

Reuters | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Ska South Africa, Square Kilometre Array, Video, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Square Kilometer Array, Reuters, Telescope, Ska, Ska Australia, Science News

(Reuters) - A decision on where to site the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, either South Africa or Australia and New Zealand, could be m...

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Monster Black Hole Caught Swallowing Unlucky Star

Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Black Hole, Stars, Video, Black Hole Galaxy, Cosmology, Black Hole Star, Black Hole Swallows Star, Astronomy, Black Hole Video, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/02/2012 01:09 PM EDT on SPACE.com Call it a Cosmic Scene Investigation: For the first time, scientists have iden...

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The Consolation of Philosophy

Lawrence M. Krauss | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: A Universe of Nothing, Philosophy, Cosmology, Theoretical Physics, Science News
Lawrence M. Krauss

How can a universe full of galaxies and stars, and planets and people, including philosophers, arise naturally from an initial condition in which none of these objects -- no particles, no space, and perhaps no time -- may have existed?

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Nuthin' to Explain

Victor Stenger | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Quantum Physics, Cosmology, Nothing, Creation, Nothing Space, Nothing Creation, Physics Outer Space, Matter Origins Space, Science News
Victor Stenger

In a recent book called A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, cosmologist Larry Krauss describes how our universe could have arisen naturally from a pre-existing structureless void he calls "nothing."

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Cosmic Mystery Deepens As 'Dark Matter' Study Yields Big Surprise

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Planetary Science, Does Dark Matter Exist, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Dark Matter Sun, Space, Physics, Sun, Dark Matter Study, Dark Matter, Dark Matter Research, Universe, Video, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 04/19/2012 10:00 AM EDT on SPACE.com A new study has found no trace of the mysterious substance known as dark matte...

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Scientists Probe Secrets Of Moleule That Helped Build The Universe

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Cosmology, Video, Big Bang, h3+, Particle h3+ Particle, Space, Hydrogen, Molecule, Universe, Science News

By: LiveScience Staff Published: 04/17/2012 08:25 AM EDT on LiveScience A new study of one of the most fundamental molecules in the universe has...

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What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Black Hole?

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Black Hole, Cosmology, Video, Astronomy, Space, Hayden Planetarium, What Would Happen if You Fell Into a Black Hole. Fall Into a Black Hole, Galaxy, Science News

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 04/13/2012 03:23 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries provides expert...

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Big History: Engaging the New Narrative of Science

William Grassie | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: History, Science, Evolution, Cosmology, Religion and Science, Interpretation, History of the Universe, Big History, Religion News
William Grassie

Religionists who deny certain facts of this Big History, who don't understand or accept the scope of the important details of this new unity of knowledge, do great damage.

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Scientists Prepare For First Ever Black Hole

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Black Hole Picture, Black Hole, Cosmology, Astronomy, Event Horizon Telescope, Telescope Array, Black Hole Image, University of Arizona, General Relativity, Science News

At the center of our galaxy, an enormous black hole has worked invisibly for billions of years, and now scientists are gearing up to snap its picture....

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Are We The Reason For The Universe's Existence? The Anthropic Principle Reconsidered

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Lawrence Krauss, Religion, Anthropic Principle, Descartes, Christian Scriptures, Cosmology, Hawking, Hindu Scriptures, Science, Stephen Hawking, God, Joel Osteen, Creation, Religion and Science, Religion News
Clay Farris Naff

Indeed, the Universe, as science has revealed it, bears little resemblance to the description of Divine creation in various Scriptures.

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'Woody Allen Of Cosmology' Explains Origin Of Universe

AP | By ANN LEVIN | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Lawrence Krauss, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Physics, Woody Allen of Cosmology, Lawrence Krauss Book, The Physics of Star Trek, Richard Dawkins, A Universe From Nothing, Science News

-- "A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing" (Free Press), by Lawrence M. Krauss: In fall 2009, the theoretical physicist...

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The Big Snap

Max Tegmark | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Expanding Universe, Universe Is Expanding, Rubberbands, Cosmology, Pixels, Space, Big Chill, Big Snap, Dark Energy, Albert Einstein, Science News
Max Tegmark

How's it all going to end? Being a cosmologist, I'm not talking about our new year, but about our universe, billions of years from now. This question has gotten me worrying about what I call the Big Snap.

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Set Your Clocks for the Twilight of the Big Bang

Adam Frank | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Daylight Saving Time, Timekeeping, Seasons, Time, Big Bang Theory, Nature, Science, Clocks, Benjamin Franklin, Cosmology, Green News
Adam Frank

This Sunday marks the yearly orgy of clock-adjusting known as daylight saving time. This is the best day of the year to remind everyone that time, as we know it, doesn't exist.

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War Of The Worldviews: Where Science And Spirituality Agree And Disagree

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Big Bang, Cosmology, Consciousness, Brain, War of the Worldviews, Science, Genetics, God, Spirituality, Leonard Mlodinow, Deepak Chopra, Religion and Science, Video, Religion News
Deepak Chopra

People are asking about the major points of contention between science and spirituality. Do we always disagree or are there some points of agreement?

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Can Physics Save Your Soul?

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Ken Wilber, Cosmology, Religion and Science, New Age Mysticism, Physics and the Soul, Science of the Soul, What Is the Soul, Religion News
Clay Farris Naff

With reality revealing itself to be so much weirder under the hood than it looks it in the showroom, this may be just the time to reopen the argument of whether you possess, along with your body, a soul.

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Science Needs To Ask: 'What Is Consciousness?'

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Living Universe, Cosmology, Consciousness, Superstition, Myths, Healthy Living Health News, Crumbling of Mythology, Fall of Mythology, Healthy Living Spirit, Mythology, Mythology and Spirituality, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

To go where science wants to go, it needs to become more complete, and for me, it can benefit hugely by expanding into the realm long governed by spirituality.

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A Cosmic Book With Human Insight

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Cosmology, Big Bang, God, The New Universe and the Human Future, The View From the Center of the Universe, Joel Primack, Nancy Abrams, Religion and Science, Universe, Science and Religion, Books News
Deepak Chopra

When religionists and atheists clash, or when science places itself as the alternative to myth, a larger trend is at work, the trend from a unified sense of humanity to a splintered sense of humanity.

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Everything Came from Nothing

Victor Stenger | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Theology, Cosmology, Religion and Science, Books News
Victor Stenger

The theological claim that science cannot describe the origin of the universe and its laws in purely natural terms is refuted by the existence of plausible scenarios consistent with all knowledge that are fully worked out mathematically and published in reputable journals.

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Kabbalah: A Sacred Science of the Future

Yehuda Berg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torah and Science, Science of God, Kabbalah and Science, Kabbalah, Jewish Creationism, Consciousness, Cosmology, Age of Universe, Jewish Cosmology, Religion Science, Yehuda Berg, Kabbalah of Creation, Judaism, Navigating the Universe, Religion News
Yehuda Berg

Kabbalah holds out the promise of a real science of the future. A valid futurology is indeed possible, this despite the fact that the future appears more complex and unpredictable with every passing moment.

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The Jewish View Of Creationism

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cosmology, Creationism, Moses Maimonides, Torah and Science, Rabbi Isaac of Akko, Religion Science, Jewish Cosmology, Nachmanides, Jewish Creationism, Kabbalah and Science, Science of God, Gerald Schroeder, Age of Universe, Kabbalah of Creation, Religion News
Rabbi Adam Jacobs

One thousand years ago, the great Jewish philosopher and physician, Moses Maimonides, wrote that there is no contradiction between Torah and science and that if one is perceived, then there was a misapprehension of the science or the Torah.

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The Origins of Religion

Victor Stenger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Psychology, Cosmology, Evolution, Religion and Science, Religion News
Victor Stenger

A vast literature exists attempting to explain humanity's continuing obsession with religion. Why do we still assign invisible agency and causality to phenomena that have no agents or causes?

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When One Big Bang Is Not Enough

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cosmology, Big Bang, Multiverse, Universe, Technology News
Seth Shostak

Two teams of scientists in the U.K. are claiming to have uncovered actual evidence that our universe has interacted with others.

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The Lugubrious Universe

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cosmology, Big Bang, Future, Hubble, Universe, Sandage, Technology News
Seth Shostak

Allan Sandage died this month at age 84. While not generally known by the public, Sandage was legendary among those who study the sky, and beyond.

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Questions for a New Atheist, Part 2

Victor Stenger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Victor Stenger

People have a right to believe whatever they believe. But it makes no sense to believe in something in the total absence of evidence and, indeed, evidence that supports the nonexistence of God.

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