Category: Astronomy
Beginning to Exist and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence….
SETI is About More Than Finding ET
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project got a $100 million boost this week from Russian billionaire Yuri Milner.
Extremely large telescopes will add more firepower to search the cosmos
There are three Extremely Large Telescopes now beginning to take shape, all almost unbelievable in their sheer scale, audacious in their engineering challenges and thrilling in the scientific mysteries they aim to solve.
Just How Efficient Can a Jupiter Brain Be?
Large information processing objects have some serious limitations due to signal delays and heat production.
Your Future Laptop Will Be Powered By A Black Hole
Dr. Seth lloyd examined the computational capacity of the ultimate physically possible laptop computer. There’s only one problem, this ultimate laptop is going to have to contain a small black hole.
Compressed Sensing and the SKA
The SKA will produce as much as ten times the data as total global internet traffic.
Video Friday: Seeing Planets Around Other Suns (Imaging Exoplanets)
Dr. Marshall Perrin discusses exoplanet imaging.
Modern Cosmology Versus Creation by Gods
Traditional theism doesn’t just say “some” being created the universe, but that it was created with us in mind. The evidence of the huge structure of the cosmos, with most of it irrelevant to life, our location in that universe and the eons of time necessary for evolution belie the claim that it was created for us.