NASA Can Stop Looking for Black Holes Says Stephen Hawking 2 Bienvenue sur labosims - LABOSIMS Stephen Hawking on God, Science and the Origins of the Universe According to Viking mythology, eclipses occur when two wolves, Skoll and Hati, catch the sun or moon. At the onset of an eclipse people would make lots of noise, hoping to scare the wolves away. After some time, people must have noticed that the eclipses ended regardless of whether they ran around banging on pots. Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to postulate many myths in an effort to make sense of their world. But eventually, people turned to philosophy, that is, to the use of reason—with a good dose of intuition—to decipher their universe. Albert Einstein said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." Newton believed that our strangely habitable solar system did not "arise out of chaos by the mere laws of nature." Many improbable occurrences conspired to create Earth's human-friendly design, and they would indeed be puzzling if ours were the only solar system in the universe. That is not the answer of modern science.
COSMOS Supercomputer - Home COSMOS IX arrives! On the 4th of July 2012 the brand new Altix UV2000 system from SGI arrived at DAMTP. The system, which is the largest shared-memory computer in Europe and the first SMP system in the world to be boosted by the Intel Xeon Phi co-processors later in the year, will be used to support research in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics within the DiRAC distributed HPC Facility, funded by STFC and DBIS UK. COSMOS Mk IX features 1856 Intel Xeon E5 processor cores (SandyBridge-EP) with 14.5TB of globally shared memory.
Banque des Savoirs - Essonne brief history Etienne Klein | Site de vulgarisation scientifique Why Stephen Hawking Thinks the 'God Particle' Could End the Universe Stephen Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that physicists would not discover the Higgs boson. After losing that bet when physicists detected the particle in 2012, Hawking lamented the discovery, saying it made physics less interesting. Now, in the preface to a new collection of essays and lectures called "Starmus," the famous theoretical physicist is warning that the particle could one day be responsible for the destruction of the known universe. Hawking is not the only scientist who thinks so. The theory of a Higgs boson doomsday, where a quantum fluctuation creates a vacuum "bubble" that expands through space and wipes out the universe, has existed for a while. The Higgs boson, sometimes referred to as the 'god particle,' much to the chagrin of scientists who prefer the official name, is a tiny particle that researchers long suspected existed. Universe doomsday The Higgs boson is about 126 billion electron volts, or about the 126 times the mass of a proton. Not all doom and gloom
Astronomy Picture of the Day @.Ampère et l'histoire de l'électricité Académie des Sciences - Physique Comptes Rendus Physique is a peer-reviewed electronic journal, whose objective is to allow researchers to quickly make their work known to the international scientific community. It is one of the seven journals published by the Académie des sciences, heir to the Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences [Weekling proceedings of the Académie des Sciences' meetings] founded in 1835 by Arago. Comptes Rendus Physique covers the whole field of physics and astrophysics. They mainly publish thematic issues, whose authors are chosen among the most active researchers in the field. The coordination of each thematic issue is ensured by one or more guest editors, guaranteeing the consideration of the most recent and significant results. They also publish original research articles, review articles, historical perspectives, pedagogical texts or conference proceedings, with no limit in length and in a format as flexible as necessary (figures, associated data, etc.).