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POPSIs a 'Dark Force' Pushing the Universe Apart? Astronomers now recognize that the eventual fate of the universe is inextricably tied to the presence of dark energy and dark matter.The current standard model for cosmology describes a universe that is 70 percent dark energy, 25 percent dark matter, and only 5 percent normal matter.
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POPSArtifacts and Human History Yet many other unearthed "out-of-place artifacts" create obvious contradictions to the conservative picture of antiquity. They don't fit the established pattern of prehistory, pointing back instead to the existence of advanced civilizations before any of the known ancient cultures came into being.
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POPSHow did the Universe Begin ? The no-boundary wave function also states that space-time was not what we see today at the outset of universal expansion. “When the universe started out,” Hartle explains, “there wasn’t ordinary space-time. Instead of three space directions, as we have now, there were four space directions. At some point, a transition was made to ordinary space-time.”
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POPSBefore the beginning of the universe Alan Guth of MIT, who first proposed the inflation theory nearly three decades ago, says he suspects “the reported lopsidedness will more likely turn out to be a fluke.” However, he adds, “the concept of inflation is really only the framework of a theory, and so far experiment has given us very little guidance in trying to fill in the details.
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POPSOrigins of Chess Sort of bullshit article about cosmology and chess, but I liked the parts about the historical variants and their similarities.
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POPSDark, Perhaps Forever - Clueless about the universe Whatever proposal is eventually selected, the dark energy satellite will return a tidal wave of data about the universe and its weird denizens, both visible and invisible. This data is likely to transform astronomy in unpredictable ways, but there is no guarantee that it will nail the mystery of dark energy. “We really need new theory, and we have none,” Dr. Krauss said.
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POPSwhat is time? the big bang is easier to understand if it is not the beginning of everything but just one of those things that happens from time to time.
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POPSNew twist to matter-antimatter mystery Here is an "almost breakthrough" A major mystery of modern physics is why normal matter particles are the building blocks of the observable universe. Why are we not made of antimatter? Or pure energy? Scientists speculate that a tiny imbalance in the early universe allowed a small fraction of normal matter – one particle for every one billion – to avoid annihilation and survive to form stars, planets, and humans. When we come to know that we don't know, there is a new place for hope...
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POPSWhat is a Large Hadron Collider ? 'Rock Star Physicist' Brian Cox explains what The large Hadron Collider is, how it works what it does and what we may discover with it. How they can get subatomic particles to go at 99..99999% of the speed of light around the 27km circumference collider ,11,000 times a second. - and what happens when they smash into each other while going in opposite directions. He also gives a description of the 'holy grail' of physics, the 'Hick Boson' the yet undiscovered particle that theoretically gives the universe 'weight' The Hadron Collider helps provide a link between theories, and discoveries in both particle physics, and cosmology, something Einstein was searching for to complete his 'Grand Universal Theory'
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POPSBefore the Big Bang - the Big Bounce Now, however, Dr Bojowald and fellow physicists are exploring territory unknown even to Einstein - the time before the Big Bang - using his new theory, called Loop Quantum Cosmology. An analysis of this, one of a series of newly-emerging theories which combine Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity) with that of the subatomic world (quantum theory), "is supposed to provide a non-singular framework in which one could address the question of what was there before the Big Bang," he says.
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POPSGaia Mythos and the Promise of a Lonely Planet The Sophia narrative is an imaginative picture of human origins based on the experience of Gnostic seers. The Anthropos template is central to Gnostic cosmology, and closely related to the enigma of the Archons.
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POPSCountdown to 2012: Genesis Long Count In 551 BCE, the vernal point was transiting the head-stars of the Ram. In the time of Alexander the Great, two centuries later, it still in this region, and had been remarked by skywatchers for some time.
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POPSDendera Zodiac: Sirius the Northern Star Sirius, rose on this day before the Sun, welcoming a new day, a new year, and the onset of a "Great Year" of 1,460 years duration-believed to be the inauguration of the Pharonic calendar.
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POPSCosmic Jackpot An alternate view of 'the anthropic principal'. Also hear a podcast interview with Paul Davies about this book and concept.
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POPSBeyond Four Dimensional Space-Time According to some advanced physical theories more than our four dimensional space-time dimensions are needed for a complete description of the physical universe. The nearly-completed Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be able to provide insight in the shape of these alternate dimensions.
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