Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers

For the Economic Development of the Solar System Are We Living Inside a Black Hole July 23, 2010 § This is a new one. I don’t know about you, but I will have fun thinking abut this one this weekend. My definition of fun is different than most. “Scientists trying to explain the universe’s accelerating expansion usually point to dark energy, which seems to be pushing everything apart.But an Indiana University professor has a new theory, reports New Scientist: We’re inside a black hole that exists in another universe. Diagnosis by ~Sigma-Echo-Seven on deviantART Beginning and End of the Universe July 26, 2010 § Universe History * The diagram below outlines the major Eras of the Universe according to the Big Bang Theory. Click the picture for many more details and a larger image. The one line in the article that caught my attention the most was at the end.

Kerbal Space Program Story of the Biggest Experiment in History Caught on Film On July 4, 2012, scientists around the world waited with bated breath for the announcement that the long-awaited Higgs boson particle had been discovered. The finding — the result of the biggest and most expensive experiment in history — was set to either confirm reigning models of particle physics, or reveal gaps in scientists' understanding of the universe. A new documentary follows six scientists during the launch of the machine that made the discovery possible, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Switzerland, as they attempt to recreate the earliest moments of the universe. "Particle Fever" captures the scientists' sense of excitement and foreboding leading up to the discovery of the Higgs, the particle that explains how other particles get their mass. The film opens during the first test of a single proton beam in September 2008.

Earth - Take a trip around the pale blue dot we all call home In this short film, BBC Earth explores the tiny little planet we all live on. We're releasing it in tribute to the astronomer Carl Sagan, who was born on this day in 1934. Sagan gave us perhaps the clearest demonstration that, while the Earth may seem enormous, compared to the universe it is minuscule. In 1990 he arranged for the Voyager 1 spacecraft to take a photograph of Earth. But this was no ordinary photo. Voyager 1 was 6 billion km from Earth, beyond the orbit of the most distant planet, Neptune. A New and Vivid Earthrise Earth can be forgiven its vanity. We may have long ago learned that our flyspeck world does not sit at the center of the universe, that it’s a pint-sized planet in an afterthought solar system, in an outer province of an ordinary galaxy. But say this for Earth: it’s gorgeous. In a universe of planets that too often are burnt umber or ice white or slate gray, ours is a riot of brilliant colors and swirling patterns. That loveliness is even more striking when pictures of the Earth are taken from the moon—with the bleakness of our only natural satellite contrasting sharply with the brightness of our home planet.

Un turista diferente en Canarias Terje Sorgjerd, un noruego apasionado de la fotografía natural ha sido uno más de los miles de turistas que han pasado estas últimas semanas por Tenerife. Estuvo de vacaciones en la isla una semana, del 4 al 11 de abril... Sin embargo hay una gran (gigantesca) diferencia entre él y el resto de la marabunta que se apila en las playas tostándose o achicharrándose en la arena luciendo sus barrigas coloradas de sol y cerveza... Terje ha venido a disfrutar de otro tipo de espectáculo. Ha sabido capturar otro tipo de recuerdos, ha sabido llegar dónde los guías no llegan y ha vivido la otra faceta, apasionante y desconocida, de las islas Canarias: Su cielo.

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