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News Briefs 27-05-2011

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

  • Universe’s missing mass, found… by student.
  • Black holes are spinning faster than ever.
  • Is that Moonlight or a mirror-ball?
  • Water on the moon? You’re all wet. More here.
  • Ockham’s E.T.
  • Know your fish? No, you don’t.
  • The shuttle’s final, historic spacewalk.
  • 13.14 billion year-old light breaks record.
  • Blue stragglers discovered in Milky Way.
  • LHC creates densest matter, period.
  • A glimpse into the cosmos’ ‘high energy soul’.
  • The numbers behind Apocalypse not.
  • Superheroes with X-ray vision need not apply.
  • China’s drought worsens.
  • Cockroaches are so 2010. 2011 is all about the ’Leaproach’.
  • End of snowball theory, debunked.
  • Comets, de-tailed.
  • Santa’s reindeer see in UV.
  • Peering into the mind of an infant. Ignore Cusack’s voice.
  • Going on up to the Spirit in the sky.
  • New predator fossil changes history books.
  • This week’s proof of the coming robot uprising… ’Bot-butlers.

Late edition thanks to the Hopeyman!

Quote of the Day:

“A great deal more is known than has been proved…”

R. Feynman

  1. 13.14 billion year-old light breaks record.
    So I think we can all agree that light is fast. If light is just reaching us now wouldn’t that mean that the expansion of the universe was much faster than light?

    Ok so big bang, light still travels right?
    After big bang rapid expansion of the universe – doesn’t that assume light follows with the rapid expansion?

    10 billion years later Earth is born.
    4 billion years later we see a faint star explosion for the first time, just showed up on the radar, which is just 520million years after the big bang.

    It kind of gives dark energy momentum. Even tho I hate dark energy I think it’s non-sense; However, clearly something is causing a delay in the light from reach earth.

    If you shine a light, run at lightspeed 14 billion light years away and build earth, technically that light should follow you. Why didn’t it?

  2. “Science is the belief in the
    “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

    Well.

    “Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

    “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

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