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News Briefs 27-02-2015

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”

Quote of the Day:

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

John Keats

  1. How Dwarf Planets Go Viral
    New Bulletin:

    “NASA’s Dawn Probe detects Japanese tourists using flash photography on Ceres.”

    Wonder how fast this fake news will take to go viral?

  2. continously beating a dead horse with a shovel aka Sonic
    I am one of those fans who played the first games more than 20 years ago and still love them. This release looks awful. So you can’t interact with any of the rings or enemies? Then what is the the point of PLAYING THE GAME!!! Sega wanted Sonic to become it’s answer to Nintendo’s Mario, but it just couldn’t compare. Granted I have never been lucky enough to play Mario outside of an arcade setting (I wanted the N64 something fierce but my family couldn’t afford it). Also the whole spin the level around was making me dizzy. I think there is a good reason it never got released. Then again, nothing is as shit as Sonic Boom *shutters*

  3. Origin of Matter
    Heh. Except this “latest theory” still presupposes the existence of something – in this case “particles” and “antiparticles”.

    Or, as we in the lay community call it, “matter”.

    1. Astrophysics is Dead, Spock
      As if the whole idea of the Universe originating from a single point did not strain credulity far enough, now we are being asked to believe that only one-billionth of the original “particles” of the Universe remained in existence due to matter-antimatter annihilation.

        1. Single Points (of Failure), Chickens and Eggs (on the Face)
          Academia is not good at generating new theories. One has to risk their entire career to challenge the orthodoxy. Even though it is now known that young galaxies can have super-massive black holes at their centers, possible explanations are slow to come forth. Nobody wants to be embarrassed before their distinguished colleagues.

          Humans are quick to form opinions and slow to change them. We don’t make very good scientists.

  4. Newly found black hole
    Regarding the newly found black hole that was posted yesterday. I have no evidence to support for or against, but does anyone ever get the idea that maybe the universe is older than the assumption and research that we have that states that it is roughly 13.9 billion years old?

    I’ve also read a recent article about the particle – antiparticle decay in the early universe and Hawking’s latest paper on black holes as well. While these articles definitely do not challenge the age of the universe, it made me start thinking that perhaps we simply just do not know. Perhaps the results of the CMB/WMAP surveys point to the remaining radiation of the destruction of the vast percentage of symmetrically-balanced particles and anti-particles, and not the signature of the big bang as suggested.

    Furthermore, I am getting more deeply interested in the now defunct theory that perhaps our universe exists within a black hole of another, much larger universe. While I am not intelligent enough to work out the mathematics on this, logically in my mind this could somewhat make sense. Although I am not committing myself entirely to this idea, I seem to think that this may account for what we call Dark Energy in a way that perhaps the actual rotation of the ‘our black hole’ could possibly account for Dark Energy. Furthermore, perhaps what call ‘Dark Energy’ is the simple moving of mass out of our black hole due to Hawking Radiation. Perhaps what we know as the big bang was the formation of our black hole within that larger universe.

    Here is a good example of some similar ideas: http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2009/PP-18-01.PDF

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