The new record is now 13 billion light years away … impressive in terms of either light years distance or historical years of travel
Category Archives: Cosmology
Maybe There Isn’t Anybody Out There …
Recent CERN study suggests that extra-terrestrial gamma-ray bursts are a real threat to the continued existence of life. Maybe that’s why we have no evidence of life beyond that found here on earth. Click Through Here
MIT Course Material Free
Decided to really drill down on a topic?? MIT makes quite a bit of high quality material available for free.
The Big History Project
A wonderful introduction into the subject of how all this, and we, got here. Click here
Hubble Image of Ring Nebula (M57 or NGC 6720)
Hubble Image (above) supplemented by some infrared data from earth-bound telescopes. Image below is what we generally get here on earth:
Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate, Channels a Zen Master
Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate, Channels a Zen Master Concerning ‘Not Knowing’
Prof. Alan Wright & Wife Hilary
Lecturing on the 2012 ms Oosterdam Eclipse Cruise was Professor Alan Wright, late of the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia (http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/)
A radio astronomer, Alan had, at one time, the distinction of having sighted the furthest known object in the universe.
Here he is talking with Sir (Saint?) Patrick Moore: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/sights/quasars#p00bftr6
Author of 300+ articles, he is especially pleased by his elucidation of red shift in the book he authored with his wife Hilary, ‘At the Edge of the Universe’
Lawrence M. Krauss
Who would be lecturing to the Sky and Telescope contingent on the ms Oosterdam’s Solar Eclipse cruise than Professor Lawrence M. Krauss of Arizona State University
http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/
Author of my favourite book on current frontiers in physics:
a marvellous voyage through modern physics…..
His lectures were spectacular!
Jean Luc On Leave…..
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