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POPSAncient Hebrew Cosmology
Ancient Hebrew cosmology as illustrated by Michæl.Paukner: The preceding description of the world doesn't share the same scientific view that we have, in which the Earth is one planet around one sun in a universe full of suns and planets. The ancient picture of the universe portrays a world in which the Earth is a disc surrounded by water not only on the sides, but underneath and above as well. A firm bowl (the firmament) keeps the upper waters back but has gates to let the rain and snow through. The Sun, Moon, and stars move in fixed tracks along the underside of this bowl. From below the disc, the waters break through as wells, rivers and the ocean, but the Earth stands firm on pillars sunk into the waters like the pillings of a pier. Deep below the Earth is Sheol, the abode of the dead, which can be entered only through the grave. As portrayed in the illustration, the biblical cosmos consisted of three basic regions: the heavens, the land, and the underworld. In conclusion
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POPSThe life of Albert Einstein - He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
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POPSRedshift This could change your notion that the redshift of stars equals velocity. In fact, it challenges the notion of the Big Band theory itself! The redder the object, the younger it is.
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POPSA new cosmology The Electric Universe states that the Big Bang never happened, that the universe is predominately electric in nature and that black holes, dark matter and pixie dust aren't real.
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POPSThe End of Everything End of Cosmology – 3 trillion years from now. End of Stars – 100 trillion years from now. The End of Regular Matter – 10 to the power of 30 years from now. End of Black Holes – 10 to the power of 100 years from now. The End of Everything – 10 to the power of 100 years and beyond. Perhaps there will be another Big Bang someday. Perhaps the Universe is cyclical and the whole process will start up again. Perhaps it won't, and this bleak future of a cold, dead Universe is all that awaits us. It's not happy, but it's awe inspiring to consider the long future ahead, and helps us appreciate the vibrant age we live in today.
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POPSMarcelo Gleiser on How do We Know? Marcelo Gleiser, Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College, is a theoretical physicist who has worked on a diverse set of topics: cosmology, particle physics, phase transitions, condensed matter physics and biophysics. an interesting take on the concept of reality and existence, notice the last statement: "In this case, and in a paradoxical way, the theories that we construct to amplify our view of physical reality will actually limit what we can know about nature."
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POPSOn The Way To An Electrical Universe? Electrical effects and currents can be measured in the physical universe. Hence the character of the universe is electrical in nature period. If they look at the effects they'll see the electric nature of the cosmos.
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POPSDark flow, when the universe as you know is closing on you
"If confirmed, this will be an exciting way of probing the ultimate structure of the universe and perhaps even the multiverse," Kashlinsky says. "But you have to check and recheck." "If this thing is confirmed and it is real, it will be incredibly important," says Aguirre, "on the same order of discovery as the realisation that those little smudges on the sky are other galaxies. The most important thing it would tell us is that the standard picture is broken in some way. And the most exciting thing it could tell us is that there are other universes." If it does, space and time will open up to reveal a reality that is so much bigger than we know. When that happens, those claustrophobia-stricken cosmologists will finally be able to breathe easy." What i find as most interesting is the passion to go beyond the obvious barriers. As i read once in a book series i love, the golden age, even in the size of the universe, a jail is still a jail...
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