Blogs Posts in Cosmology category; 49 blog posts

Darwinian Cosmology

The standard model of cosmology, the origin of our Universe, the Big Bang event, suggests that the Big Bang created space, time, matter and energy, and was a quantum sized event. Thus theorized, our Universe must have created itself; such [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Is the universe expanding asymmetrically?

Recent examination of supernovae velocities suggests the universe may be expanding non-uniformly in its acceleration, which implies the laws of physics may vary throughout the cosmos. Physicists working with the Supernova Cosmology Projec [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Cosmology and the Darwinian (Reproducing) Universe

  The standard model of cosmology, the origin of our Universe, the Big Bang event, suggests that the Big Bang created space, time, matter and energy, and was a quantum sized event. Thus theorized, our Universe must have created its [...]

Posted On : Jul, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

What is Cosmology?

The word 'cosmology' originated in Greek: 'cosmologia', meaning order, orderly arrangement or ornaments, plus the word 'logos', meaning word, reason or plan. Cosmology is the study of the Universe at large, which h [...]

Posted On : Jul, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

What is The Buddhist View of Cosmology?

  There is no single sutra that describes the entire structure of the universe. However, there are several sutras in Buddhism that describe other worlds and states of beings that occupy them. There are other sutras that describe th [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Institute of Cosmology and Astrophysics to be established in...

likhanyan National Scientific Laboratory non-profit organization, Yerevan State University and California Institute of Technology signed an agreement to set up a joint Institute and Cosmology and Astrophysics in Yerevan. The Armenian Gov [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Cosmological Discoveries and the Christian

Cosmology is that branch of science which studies the origin and evolution of the universe.  Since the philosophy of evolution is the underlying assumption of cosmology, it is expected that a good number of their conclusions will co [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Cosmology: No miracle in the multiverse

Despite publicity to the contrary, The Grand Design does not disprove the existence of God. Science has not had much new to say about God since mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace remarked to Napoleon that he had no need for “that h [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Milky Way survived ancient heat wave because of dark matter

Milky Way survived ancient heat wave because of dark matter

A new theory by scientists says that our Milky Way galaxy survived intense heat generated by the “ignition” of the Universe about half-a-billion years after the Big Bang, because it was already immersed in a large clump of dark [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Astronomy cal claims

Astronomy cal claims

Clearly imagination must be the source from which astronomy•cal theories are developed about the cosmos that surround us.  But according to Sagan, skepticism is the very tool to keep things in check, helping to filter out the fant [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

COOL COSMOLOGY

COOL COSMOLOGY

"I try to challenge my own perceptions, the way I look at things. And one symbol of that was to make these paintings rotate," said the artist Thomas Woodruff at the recent opening of his show at P.P.O.W. gallery in West Chelsea, a [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Write some formulaic verse

Write some formulaic verse

As a teenager in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was an avid buyer of paperback poetry anthologies. One of my favourites at the time was a little book called "Frontier of going: an anthology of space poetry" which was edited b [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Before the Big Bang - the Big Bounce

Before the Big Bang - the Big Bounce

The new work suggests that time existed before the Big Bang, when a more ancient universe collapsed to give birth to the one we live in today. Ours is the latest universe in a series that expanded, then collapsed, before another - slightly [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2008 | Comments : 1

Probing The Cosmic Web Of The Universe: New Light On Dark Energy

Probing The Cosmic Web Of The Universe: New Light On Dark En...

 Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens fascinating perspectives to better understand what drives the acceleration of [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

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