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Major News, Minor Ripple in the Newsiverse

Stephen — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:30:36 +0000

Snapshot of the early universe, showing temperature fluctuations of the remnant glow from the Big Bang. It’s official, the universe is 13.73 billion years old, give or take 120 million years. This profound news, and other findings released with it, appears not to have generated a huge reception other than in the scientific community. To my mind, [...]

A Short History of a Self-Centred Cosmos

Stephen — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:34:49 +0000

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In primitive times, the world was a place where the supernatural operated everywhere, including in the heavens. It was a world of magical cosmology, when human beings regarded themselves as not only unified with the cosmos and influenced by it, but as also able to have an influence on it. This primitive mentality operated [...]

The Universe and Stuff

Stephen — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:32:11 +0000

What you are looking at on the left is the spiral galaxy M31 or Andromeda, which looks much like our galaxy, the Milky Way, only we’re a little smaller. It’s amazing that, as you gaze at this small image of the galaxy, you are looking at around 200 billion stars on a scale that the [...]