Seattle is a place of moods -- or, perhaps, a more accurate way to put it is that places around Seattle tend to trigger shifts of moods, odd perceptions, or other emotionally significant events in me. Today, I had another such experience that happened to be familiar to me, because I'd had it numerous times when I was a child living in Southern ( Read more... )

Something occurred to me today: What if some lucid dreams are as strange as they are because the sleeper, no longer blocked from seeing into them because the sleep state has crashed those blocks, is seeing into more than one universe at once ( Read more... )

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Flying through a evolving cosmic structure, starting at early times (the so called dark ages), where the material in the universe is in a cold and neutral state. First objects collapse and form the first proto galaxies embedded in a heated atmosphere, hosting the first stars and QSOs. The energetic light from those stars/QSOs heat and ionize the ( Read more... )

Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT(Aug. 11) -- For centuries, an astronomy observatory in Greenwich, London -- the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time -- has been the reference point for lines of longitude, ships' navigation on the world's seas and the time zones used today ( Read more... )

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http://www.universetoday.com/2010/06/12/astronomy-without-a-telescope-is-time-real/

The Sun entered Aries -- passed celestial longitude 0.0° 00' 00" (00h00m00s right ascension) at 10:32 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (17h32m UT) this morning. At 11:42 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (18h42m UT) this morning, the Sun stood on the exact longitude (0.0° 03' = 00h03m0s right ascension) where it was when I was born (March 20, 1945, @ 5:48 p.m ( Read more... )

Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher, is credited with saying, "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres." This idea of the "Music of the Spheres" has endured over the centuries, ultimately informing how Kepler visualized the movements of the planets, which led him to formulate his ( Read more... )

http://www.livescience.com/common/media/show/player.php?aid=32398

“A Christmas Carol,” by Tom Lehrer (in his Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle [New York: Pantheon Books, 1981], pp. 60-62, 150-151; and on his record album An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer [1959]).

Christmas time is here, by golly( Read more... )