New... Hubble... pictures... ::drooooooool::

That is all.

As an addendum to the quick and not-at-all comprehensive bit on atheism I did earlier this month, I got to thinking about a truly materialistic cosmology and it occurred to me that, in the end, it's possible to construct a completely reasonable view of the universe without God.  That is to say, atheism is reasonable.  However, I have a feeling that ( Read more... )

Happy Apollo 11 anniversary, everyone!

I spent plenty of time online today looking up both the history of the mission and what kinds of things NASA's been cooking up lately.  There is just plain a level of AWESOME associated with space travel that cannot be equalled by anything science can do here on Earth.

I was wondering yesterday whether it would ever be possible to harness the expansion of the universe as an energy source.  After all, planets and stars and galaxies are shooting away from each other at mind-boggling speeds ( Read more... )

Wanna see a cool astronomy picture?  This is a cool astronomy picture.  0.8-second window, man.  Awesome.

Our latest choral concert is Handel's Solomon.  It's been awhile since I sang an oratorio.  But I love Handel quite a lot.  Because, long before it was fashionable or even common, he had a knack of writing melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and ( Read more... )

So today as I went to my car after getting the oil changed, I noticed a strange conjunction in the sky.  The slim crescent moon was sitting right next to two points of light far too bright to be stars - I was in a mall parkinglot with enough light pollution to outshine the rest of the night sky.  But there, bright as anything, was this group.  (My ( Read more... )

Not long ago, tree_and_leaf did an interesting essay on RTD's Doctor Who era and how it revealed his Jesus issues, and as I read it through, I was suddenly struck with something out of the incomparable Perelandra, and thereon found myself running down new roads of cosmology - or maybe not new roads, but I was suddenly made aware of them.

( Of Science and Sanity )

So they fired up the LHC today...

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Twenty-first century science is love.

( Truth, I think, is a thing you can slice. )

Tell me that this isn't a breeding ground for sci fi plot bunnies.  I mean, seriously.  If our universe really was "born" inside another one?  Or that there are random other universes existing in empty space?  Could you go between them?  Could you get out of this one?  Is this what the Doctor means by "time and relative dimension in space ( Read more... )