Science

[Pakage]

Feel free to post up interesting science related stuff in here.

 

This is something buzzy i just read:

 

Fermilabs will measure the smallest details of spacetime in 2011 to test if the universe is a hologram

 

If you "lived inside" a hologram, you could tell by measuring the blurring. Fermilabs is building a interferomter to test space time for holographic blurring.

 

Possible consequence of holography

 

Hypothesis: observable correlations are encoded on light sheets and limited by information capacity of a Planck wavelength carrier (“Planck information flux” limit)

 

Predicts uncertainty in position at Planck diffraction scale

 

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[Dr Awesome]

Dinosaurs: Science Or Science Fiction

 

When children go to a dinosaur museum, are the displays they see displays of science or displays of art and science fiction? Are we being deceived and brainwashed at an early age into believing a dinosaur myth? Deep probing questions need to be asked of the entire dinosaur business.

 

This article will discuss the possibility that there may have been an ongoing effort since the earliest dinosaur "discoveries" to plant, mix and match bones of various animals, such as crocodiles, alligators, iguanas, giraffes, elephants, cattle, kangaroos, ostriches, emus, dolphins, whales, rhinoceroses, etc. to construct and create a new man-made concept prehistoric animal called the dinosaur. This article does not claim that that "dinosaurs never existed" or that "scientists just made up dinosaurs". Note the use of the words "possible", "possibly", "possibility", "may", and "could". There is an important difference, between claiming something is true, and claiming something is possible.

 

Where bones from existing animals are not satisfactory for deception purposes, plaster substitutes may be manufactured and used. Some material similar or superior to plasticine clay or plaster of Paris would be suitable. Molds may also be employed. A 144-page book titled "Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones" provides step-by-step instructions complete with detailed drawings and diagrams.

 

 

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Makes sense if you ask me.

Dinosaurs, pft. Not even mentioned in the bible!

[surface]

^christian fibs

[Medium]

[indecline]

Astronomers Find Oldest Galaxy Yet

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11927711

 

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted the oldest galaxy ever seen, one born just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

 

Their report, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, confirms that the distant smudge first spotted by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is the farthest and thus oldest object ever imaged.

 

The galaxy has the unglamorous name of UDFy-38135539, the team of European researchers said.

 

"Here we report the detection of ... photons emitted less than 600 million years after the Big Bang," they wrote.

 

Light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles a second, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km) a year. Astronomers can use light-speed as a kind of time machine, and seeing light emitted from objects very far away shows them as they were in the past.

 

In this case, the galaxy's light first started traveling 13 billion years ago, right after the Big Bang.

 

 

The distance is measured using what is called red shift, a kind of Doppler effect of light. Just as a train's whistle seems to change in pitch as the train approaches and passes, light's color also shifts.

 

This galaxy has a red shift of 8.55, making it the farthest and oldest ever seen.

 

At this time in the early universe, a haze of hydrogen gas was everywhere, but radiation from primeval galaxies was causing a process called ionization that changed the nature of the hydrogen.

 

The report "represents a fundamental leap forward in observational cosmology", Michele Trenti of the University of Colorado, Boulder, wrote in a commentary.

 

Space is so crazy, it's ridiculous how fucking big it is

[Pakage]

One thing that buzzed me out about how big space is, is that it expands faster than the speed of light hence we cant even really see the edge of the universe. We can see 13.8 billion light years in a sphere in every direction as thats how far light has travelled in the time since the big bang.

 

But, its completely feasible that someone standing on a planet 10 billion light years away from us could also see in a 13.8billion light year sphere around their planet too. Potentially the universe is many, many times greater in size than we could possibly see, even if we had the most advance light sensing technology imaginable.

 

[indecline]

Yeah that's crazy this is a pretty good talk about space and how it all came to be, I watched the first 20min before

 

 

Hubble deep space field is also wicked, it's insane how many planets are out there.

[surface]

Yeah that's crazy this is a pretty good talk about space and how it all came to be

Hubble deep space field is also wicked, it's insane how many planets are out there.

 

hard, quite enjoy this shit, incredibly buzzy to think about, suprised more people arent intrested in it... or am i.. ha

 

check out the universe series on discovery, stephen hawkins' one

[Pakage]

Yeah his series was all good. Steven Hawkings 'a brief history of time' is dope if you dont mind books. Its more conceptual than focused too much on equations etc.. and its not very long.

 

Or there's History Channels 'The Universe' and BBC 'Space'. Both of which have about 3 seasons i believe.

 

Another one worth watching is called 'What the bleep do we know' which is more about quantum mechanics and a good place to start off if you're interested in the basics.

 

Quantum Mechanics and Astro Physics are ever inching closer together, so i recommend you check out both if you're into it. They're about as strange as each other.

[Ignition]

"How the Universe Works" is another good documentary miniseries from the Discovery Channel.

 

Makes my brain go

[Dr Awesome]

http://www.answersingenesis.org/

[Known One]

One thing that buzzed me out about how big space is, is that it expands faster than the speed of light hence we cant even really see the edge of the universe. We can see 13.8 billion light years in a sphere in every direction as thats how far light has travelled in the time since the big bang.

 

[Known One]

[dr_weazel]

Ok, so if you're looking to explode your brain with sciencey goodness, check out the "Millenium Simulation".

It's a simulation of the entire known universe.

As you watch it, try to comprehend the insane fact that the points of light that you see in the video are NOT stars... they're not even galaxies... they're GROUPS (clusters) of galaxies.

 

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This video is not as cool as the first one, but the very first picture you see is what scientist believe the universe looks like (if you could look at it all at once from an outside viewpoint... which you cant) Kinda looks like a sponge under a microscope.

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[Pakage]

A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory

In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible.

 

The discovery opens the door to the development of a new class of antiviral drugs that work by enhancing this natural virus-killing machinery of the cell. Scientists believe the first clinical trials of new drugs based on the findings could begin within two to five years.

 

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Go Science!

 

[Pakage]

10 Strange things about the Universe:

 

http://listverse.com/2010/11/04/10-strange-things-about-the-universe

 

interesting read

[perceptualChaos]

A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory

In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible.

 

The discovery opens the door to the development of a new class of antiviral drugs that work by enhancing this natural virus-killing machinery of the cell. Scientists believe the first clinical trials of new drugs based on the findings could begin within two to five years.

 

Article Continued Here

 

Go Science!

 

 

Then presumably once the common cold becomes resistant to that it will be unstoppable! Mission accomplished..... oh wait

[mike]

insert star wars quote about killing something will make it more powerful than you could possibly imagine?

[Pakage]

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

 

National Geographic presents the first accurate non-stop voyage from Earth to the edge of the Universe using a single, unbroken shot through the use of spectacular CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) technology.

 

Building on images taken from the Hubble telescope, Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the science and history behind the distant celestial bodies in the solar system.

 

This spectacular, epic voyage across the cosmos, takes us from the Earth, past the Moon and our neighboring planets, out of our Solar System, to the nearest stars, nebulae and galaxies and beyond – right to the edge of the Universe itself.

 

When you finish this video, you will walk away from it with an awareness that you never had before, of the unseen astronomically massive universe that we float around on like a spec of dust in the ocean.

 

This video takes you on a journey through the universe as if you are watching a Sci Fi adventure. Yet you constantly have to remind yourself that what you’re seeing is really out there.

 

Watch Full Documentary

[Pakage]

In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever

 

 

WHAT happened before the beginning of time is—by definition, it might be thought—metaphysics. At least one physicist, though, thinks there is nothing meta about the question at all. Roger Penrose, of Oxford University, believes that the Big Bang in which the visible universe began was not actually the beginning of everything. It was merely the latest example of a series of such bangs that renew reality when it is getting tired out. More importantly, he thinks that the pre-Big Bang past has left an imprint on the present that can be detected and analysed, and that he and a colleague in Armenia have found it.

 

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[Dr Awesome]

In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever

 

 

WHAT happened before the beginning of time is—by definition, it might be thought—metaphysics. At least one physicist, though, thinks there is nothing meta about the question at all. Roger Penrose, of Oxford University, believes that the Big Bang in which the visible universe began was not actually the beginning of everything. It was merely the latest example of a series of such bangs that renew reality when it is getting tired out. More importantly, he thinks that the pre-Big Bang past has left an imprint on the present that can be detected and analysed, and that he and a colleague in Armenia have found it.

 

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I can handle (as much as one can, I think) our general insignificance in the entire universe, but that shit is next level.

[mike]

great - so our very existence may collapse upon itself to start the cycle over at any given moment.. what am I going to work for? lol

[Dold]

. what am I going to work for? lol

 

that is a bloody good question!

 

[Dr Awesome]

MAN CURED OF HIV

[Pakage]

MAN CURED OF HIV

First HIV 'cure' comes with a very big catch