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 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:03 pm
I looked around a bit and didn't see any other topics on science news so I figured I'd start one. Here you can post any science and tech news and react to other people's links.
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:06 pm
The Darkest World: Scientists Discover 'Darth Vader' PlanetQuote: A few weeks ago, two astronomers announced the discovery of TrES-2b via the Kepler spacecraft. The planet is a so-called "Hot Jupiter" — a large gas giant orbiting extremely close to its sun-like star (the whole system is about 750 light years away from us). What makes TrES-2b so remarkable is its refusal to give back light. The scientific word for reflectivity is albedo. The Earth reflects about 37 percent or 0.37 of the light it receives from the sun. That is why we present such a beautiful bright blue face to the universe. TrES-2b is another story entirely. It bounces back less than 1 percent (0.01) of the light it receives from its star. That means the planet is blacker than coal. Seen from space, TrES-2b would barely be visible.
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:20 pm
How fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
A light-absorbing chemical? Think of the applications...
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:43 pm
That is fascinating, I liked the artist's depiction of the planet as well.
Though most of the applications for a light absorbing chemical that I can think of are more wishful thinking than possible. ^//^;
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:28 pm
Saber Talawyrm That is fascinating, I liked the artist's depiction of the planet as well. Though most of the applications for a light absorbing chemical that I can think of are more wishful thinking than possible. ^//^; If light can be so completely absorbed, think of the sort of covert operations that would be possible if it could be applied to a person or their clothing. Also, if light can be manipulated that way, whose to say that it can't perhaps be bent, as well? It isn't impossible that this could eventually be engineered into an invisibility ungent, of sorts, even if imperfect. Think of it... Really, I'd like to put the dark chemicals all over my windows so that the dawn doesn't plague me, but really, I could accomplish that with posterboard, so why be frivilous?
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:43 pm
Matasoga If light can be so completely absorbed, think of the sort of covert operations that would be possible if it could be applied to a person or their clothing. Also, if light can be manipulated that way, whose to say that it can't perhaps be bent, as well? It isn't impossible that this could eventually be engineered into an invisibility ungent, of sorts, even if imperfect. Think of it... Really, I'd like to put the dark chemicals all over my windows so that the dawn doesn't plague me, but really, I could accomplish that with posterboard, so why be frivilous? See I was thinking smear it all over everyone else's windows so that people would think it were perpetually night for awhile and my night could last longer that way. Not exactly realistic but that's what went through my head.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:52 pm
Our Universe May Be a 'Multiverse,' Scientists SayQuote: Is our universe just one of many? While the concept is bizarre, it's a real possibility, according to scientists who have devised the first test to investigate the idea. The potential that we live in a multiverse arises from a theory called eternal inflation, which posits that shortly after the Big Bang that formed the universe, space-time expanded at different rates in different places, giving rise to bubble universes that may function with their own separate laws of physics. The idea has seemed purely hypothetical, until now. In a new study, researchers suggest that if our universe has siblings, we may have bumped into them. Such collisions would have left lasting marks in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the diffuse light left over from the Big Bang that pervades the universe, the researchers say.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:03 pm
Iconoclast Enthusiast Our Universe May Be a 'Multiverse,' Scientists SayQuote: Is our universe just one of many? While the concept is bizarre, it's a real possibility, according to scientists who have devised the first test to investigate the idea. The potential that we live in a multiverse arises from a theory called eternal inflation, which posits that shortly after the Big Bang that formed the universe, space-time expanded at different rates in different places, giving rise to bubble universes that may function with their own separate laws of physics. The idea has seemed purely hypothetical, until now. In a new study, researchers suggest that if our universe has siblings, we may have bumped into them. Such collisions would have left lasting marks in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the diffuse light left over from the Big Bang that pervades the universe, the researchers say. I read the full article and found it very interesting. I'd read somewhere that nearing a black hole pocket dimensions may form and at about the point where time stops everyone that does, has, or could have existed comes into being. Now I remember this website having the trappings of a serious scientific website and I don't remember the terminology that it used, but that said I cannot vouch for it, now as this was all about a decade ago, but if there was anything to it, this must certainly be related. It makes me wonder if in addition to all else they are black holes could be, if not nexus points than at least involved in some other way. I also wonder if coincidentally the artificial idea of an afterlife could have something to it as well. If there is something to this theory, it begs the scientifically minded intellectual atheist "Mightn't there be a heaven (of some definition), after all?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:45 pm
Matasoga I read the full article and found it very interesting. I'd read somewhere that nearing a black hole pocket dimensions may form and at about the point where time stops everyone that does, has, or could have existed comes into being. Now I remember this website having the trappings of a serious scientific website and I don't remember the terminology that it used, but that said I cannot vouch for it, now as this was all about a decade ago, but if there was anything to it, this must certainly be related. It makes me wonder if in addition to all else they are black holes could be, if not nexus points than at least involved in some other way. I also wonder if coincidentally the artificial idea of an afterlife could have something to it as well. If there is something to this theory, it begs the scientifically minded intellectual atheist "Mightn't there be a heaven (of some definition), after all?" What do you mean by heaven? Serious question, not being a jerk. I guess I don't follow that idea out of black holes. Regardless, I find black holes fascinating. I've not heard that idea before but I'm not up to date on the research surrounding black holes so it may well be a widespread hypothesis.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:13 pm
Iconoclast Enthusiast Matasoga I read the full article and found it very interesting. I'd read somewhere that nearing a black hole pocket dimensions may form and at about the point where time stops everyone that does, has, or could have existed comes into being. Now I remember this website having the trappings of a serious scientific website and I don't remember the terminology that it used, but that said I cannot vouch for it, now as this was all about a decade ago, but if there was anything to it, this must certainly be related. It makes me wonder if in addition to all else they are black holes could be, if not nexus points than at least involved in some other way. I also wonder if coincidentally the artificial idea of an afterlife could have something to it as well. If there is something to this theory, it begs the scientifically minded intellectual atheist "Mightn't there be a heaven (of some definition), after all?" What do you mean by heaven? Serious question, not being a jerk. I guess I don't follow that idea out of black holes. Regardless, I find black holes fascinating. I've not heard that idea before but I'm not up to date on the research surrounding black holes so it may well be a widespread hypothesis. Well, I can't stand by my wholly unfounded and unresearched remark about black holes, but if there are an infinite number of universes, and even the laws of physics are subiect to change, then we can apply the monkey-at-a-typewriter theory (which probably has a proper name) and conclude that every eventuality must eventually be accounted for in one of the infinite number of universes. Therefore, ultimately, if there truly are an infinite number of universes and the laws of physics as we know them do not arbitrarily apply to all of them, then a place called heaven that matched the Judeo-Christian notion -must- exist. Do you follow, or am I jumping too madly or quoting odd, esoteric theories that I haven't properly explained?
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:12 pm
Matasoga Iconoclast Enthusiast Matasoga I read the full article and found it very interesting. I'd read somewhere that nearing a black hole pocket dimensions may form and at about the point where time stops everyone that does, has, or could have existed comes into being. Now I remember this website having the trappings of a serious scientific website and I don't remember the terminology that it used, but that said I cannot vouch for it, now as this was all about a decade ago, but if there was anything to it, this must certainly be related. It makes me wonder if in addition to all else they are black holes could be, if not nexus points than at least involved in some other way. I also wonder if coincidentally the artificial idea of an afterlife could have something to it as well. If there is something to this theory, it begs the scientifically minded intellectual atheist "Mightn't there be a heaven (of some definition), after all?" What do you mean by heaven? Serious question, not being a jerk. I guess I don't follow that idea out of black holes. Regardless, I find black holes fascinating. I've not heard that idea before but I'm not up to date on the research surrounding black holes so it may well be a widespread hypothesis. Well, I can't stand by my wholly unfounded and unresearched remark about black holes, but if there are an infinite number of universes, and even the laws of physics are subiect to change, then we can apply the monkey-at-a-typewriter theory (which probably has a proper name) and conclude that every eventuality must eventually be accounted for in one of the infinite number of universes. Therefore, ultimately, if there truly are an infinite number of universes and the laws of physics as we know them do not arbitrarily apply to all of them, then a place called heaven that matched the Judeo-Christian notion -must- exist. Do you follow, or am I jumping too madly or quoting odd, esoteric theories that I haven't properly explained? Ah, I follow! It clicked when you said "infinite number of universes" (I guess I wasn't sure which science story you were drawing that conclusion from). In that case, you must be correct which is indeed a mind-boggling prospect.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:32 pm
Iconoclast Enthusiast Matasoga Iconoclast Enthusiast Matasoga I read the full article and found it very interesting. I'd read somewhere that nearing a black hole pocket dimensions may form and at about the point where time stops everyone that does, has, or could have existed comes into being. Now I remember this website having the trappings of a serious scientific website and I don't remember the terminology that it used, but that said I cannot vouch for it, now as this was all about a decade ago, but if there was anything to it, this must certainly be related. It makes me wonder if in addition to all else they are black holes could be, if not nexus points than at least involved in some other way. I also wonder if coincidentally the artificial idea of an afterlife could have something to it as well. If there is something to this theory, it begs the scientifically minded intellectual atheist "Mightn't there be a heaven (of some definition), after all?" What do you mean by heaven? Serious question, not being a jerk. I guess I don't follow that idea out of black holes. Regardless, I find black holes fascinating. I've not heard that idea before but I'm not up to date on the research surrounding black holes so it may well be a widespread hypothesis. Well, I can't stand by my wholly unfounded and unresearched remark about black holes, but if there are an infinite number of universes, and even the laws of physics are subiect to change, then we can apply the monkey-at-a-typewriter theory (which probably has a proper name) and conclude that every eventuality must eventually be accounted for in one of the infinite number of universes. Therefore, ultimately, if there truly are an infinite number of universes and the laws of physics as we know them do not arbitrarily apply to all of them, then a place called heaven that matched the Judeo-Christian notion -must- exist. Do you follow, or am I jumping too madly or quoting odd, esoteric theories that I haven't properly explained? Ah, I follow! It clicked when you said "infinite number of universes" (I guess I wasn't sure which science story you were drawing that conclusion from). In that case, you must be correct which is indeed a mind-boggling prospect. Indeed, but there's more. By extension of this theory, there must be, in this eternal expanses of a complete multiverse, also be every god every imagined, by every culture (as well as a literally infinite number of those who have not been conceived). So that means that if we prove the multiverse theory, and we prove that the number of other universes are truly infinite, that will prove that there is a god, (in fact many of them) even if he doesn't exist in this universe. I'm very interested in seeing how you react to this, but I believe that my logic is not flawed. It was one point in Junior high that I took a test that measured abstract reasoning, and I scored perfect. That essentially means that the test was not capable of measuring my capacity for abstract reasoning and it may be the single area in which my mind is most adept. I very much look forward to continuing our discourse.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:21 pm
Planet Like 'Star Wars' Tatooine Discovered Orbiting 2 SunsQuote: It's a real-life Tatooine. A spectacle made popular by the "Star Wars" saga — a planet with two suns — has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed. Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope captured details of a giant planet in orbit around the pair of binary stars that make up the Kepler-16 system, which is about 200 light-years away. Also, check out this NASA video representation.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:28 pm
Matasoga Iconoclast Enthusiast Matasoga Iconoclast Enthusiast Matasoga I read the full article and found it very interesting. I'd read somewhere that nearing a black hole pocket dimensions may form and at about the point where time stops everyone that does, has, or could have existed comes into being. Now I remember this website having the trappings of a serious scientific website and I don't remember the terminology that it used, but that said I cannot vouch for it, now as this was all about a decade ago, but if there was anything to it, this must certainly be related. It makes me wonder if in addition to all else they are black holes could be, if not nexus points than at least involved in some other way. I also wonder if coincidentally the artificial idea of an afterlife could have something to it as well. If there is something to this theory, it begs the scientifically minded intellectual atheist "Mightn't there be a heaven (of some definition), after all?" What do you mean by heaven? Serious question, not being a jerk. I guess I don't follow that idea out of black holes. Regardless, I find black holes fascinating. I've not heard that idea before but I'm not up to date on the research surrounding black holes so it may well be a widespread hypothesis. Well, I can't stand by my wholly unfounded and unresearched remark about black holes, but if there are an infinite number of universes, and even the laws of physics are subiect to change, then we can apply the monkey-at-a-typewriter theory (which probably has a proper name) and conclude that every eventuality must eventually be accounted for in one of the infinite number of universes. Therefore, ultimately, if there truly are an infinite number of universes and the laws of physics as we know them do not arbitrarily apply to all of them, then a place called heaven that matched the Judeo-Christian notion -must- exist. Do you follow, or am I jumping too madly or quoting odd, esoteric theories that I haven't properly explained? Ah, I follow! It clicked when you said "infinite number of universes" (I guess I wasn't sure which science story you were drawing that conclusion from). In that case, you must be correct which is indeed a mind-boggling prospect. Indeed, but there's more. By extension of this theory, there must be, in this eternal expanses of a complete multiverse, also be every god every imagined, by every culture (as well as a literally infinite number of those who have not been conceived). So that means that if we prove the multiverse theory, and we prove that the number of other universes are truly infinite, that will prove that there is a god, (in fact many of them) even if he doesn't exist in this universe. I'm very interested in seeing how you react to this, but I believe that my logic is not flawed. It was one point in Junior high that I took a test that measured abstract reasoning, and I scored perfect. That essentially means that the test was not capable of measuring my capacity for abstract reasoning and it may be the single area in which my mind is most adept. I very much look forward to continuing our discourse. Yikes! I don't know what I never replied to this post. I think you're right. If there are infinite universes, then there would have to be many universes very, very different from our own, operating by very different rules. I think if the theory is ever proved, it would be a logical assumption although probably forever the bounds of testing. We may be able someday to prove the existence of other universes, possibly even an infinite multiverse, but we'll probably never be able to know much more about them than that they exist.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:46 pm
Iconoclast Enthusiast Planet Like 'Star Wars' Tatooine Discovered Orbiting 2 SunsQuote: It's a real-life Tatooine. A spectacle made popular by the "Star Wars" saga — a planet with two suns — has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed. Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope captured details of a giant planet in orbit around the pair of binary stars that make up the Kepler-16 system, which is about 200 light-years away. Also, check out this NASA video representation. I heard about this. I'll have to look back in to hear the details after work. Iconoclast Enthusiast Yikes! I don't know what I never replied to this post. I think you're right. If there are infinite universes, then there would have to be many universes very, very different from our own, operating by very different rules. I think if the theory is ever proved, it would be a logical assumption although probably forever the bounds of testing. We may be able someday to prove the existence of other universes, possibly even an infinite multiverse, but we'll probably never be able to know much more about them than that they exist. "We" as in you and I probably won't live to see it... But who knows? Maybe humanity will eventually learn to travel them. Then again, if the dimensional theory is correct, time travel would actually be much simpler. I admit that before I could get too deeply entrenched in the hypotheticals of the dimensional theory, I'd have to brush up on my facts.
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