At the Cradle of the Modern
There is some poetic arc in finding Copernicus' grave, in that we would not have known until recently if it had been found. The discovery, you see, has to be tested with DNA techniques - something...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush and the Physics of Relativity
The Ship of State, under the command of George The Decider is circling a black hole. It cropped up unexpected at an outpost near the eastern edge of Western Civilization and he steered us into it. ....
View ArticleVortex
She is the only woman i've ever met who left a Thank-You note on my pillow after sex.I met her in a gay bar, and I don't know if that was a sign or a warning, but the irony of it still makes me smirk.I...
View ArticleScience: When they stand up, we'll stand down.
When they sit up, we'll sit down. When they throw up, we'll throw down. When they show up, we'll show down. And, if they go up, we'll go down.It seems as though, we American particles are inexplicably...
View ArticleRelativity and The "I" Word
Full disclosure: I am not a quantum physicist, and any understanding I've ever had about the mechanics and mathematics of relativity and time dilation have been fleeting, at best.However, I am as...
View ArticleEinstein’s Theory of Relativity Bites the Dust (Really)
I know this isn’t political in nature or even in the realm of what we normally cover here in the progressive blogosphere, but it certainly is "progressive," and it profoundly intrigued me. The...
View ArticleFrom an Iowan: Good Riddance
After reading and hearing in the media about Iowa's various alleged inadequacies (expressed in any number of daily rants on D-kos), and especially after hearing Markos's particular venom for Iowa's...
View ArticleFeynman Force discovered as the missing key to understanding Einstein's...
The Feynman force is the E in E=MC(2) [squared] -- the measure of the power of light. When light travels, it applies this force to Einstein's Fabric, resulting in its incredible speed. But half that...
View ArticleShedding Light on Relativity in the Quantum World
If you haven't studied the theory, what's the first thing you think of when someone says the word Relativity? The man with the wild hair who invented it? Or matter traveling at the speed of light?...
View ArticleThis isn't "real" science, yet. It's new science
Pictures of the Next Atomic Model.I've been asked by some commenters to state up front that I am not a credentialed scientist. If you are a Kos reader who prefers to limit themself to only...
View ArticleSpace-Time Fabric Dynamics -- The True Cause of Celestial Motion
There are some glaring problems with our current model of the how the universe formed. Problems, in the sense that our Big Bang model doesn't fit with important astronomical phenomena that we observe....
View ArticlePique the Geek 20100627: Near Light Speed Space Travel
I apologize for not including a post last week, but I suffered from a large amount of lack of motivation. You see, this was the first wedding anniversary in 33 years on which the former Mrs....
View ArticleOnion say, Conservapedia do...
There's conservation of energy, conservation of mass, and then there's conservation of humor.For example, first came the Onion article mocking the anti-science position of the right by going to...
View ArticleScience, math and statistics books: The Lovable Albert Einstein
This is part of a series within the Reading and Book Lovers group; it was suggested by LimeLite. The subject is books about science, math and statistics.This is intended to be a group series, with...
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The Universe In Four T-Shirts.
This equation neatly sums up our current understanding of fundamental particles and forces. It represents mathematically what we call the standard model of particle physics. The top line describes the...
View ArticleI Made the New York Times!
My new book Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religiongot reviewed in The New York Times. Gimbel is an engaging writer. In demonstrating the obvious, he takes...
View ArticleThe center of the universe
Science has the premise of a space time continuum in which we think of a big bang as continuing to occur so that its space is expanding within a finite amount of time between the initialization of the...
View ArticleSo, About that Warp Drive...and space in general...
It's in the news again as the experiments have finally begun.I'm obviously not a physicist. I'm just a science fiction fan. But honestly? I don't see this coming to anything even though I hope, really...
View ArticleFTL -- Transporting itself from the Movies into the Research Lab
FTL = Faster Than Light-speed.I've always been intrigued by Science Fiction -- and even more so actual Science. So it's intriging to see FTL travel, making some headway in the theoretical domain.Warp...
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BosKos Meetup: Mindscapes [Updated w/Poll]
attribution: GreyHawk Everything is relative - unless you're not talking about actual relatives, or if you are talking about relativity. In all other instances, it can be more of a matter of personal...
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How Fast are we Moving ...
How Fast Does the Earth Rotate?by Fraser Cain, universetoday.com -- May 20, 2013You might be surprised to know that a spot on the surface of the Earth is moving at 1675 km/h or 465 meters/second....
View ArticleOn rainbows and Einstein
We promise kids that they'll find a pot of gold if they get to the end of the rainbow. It's a legitimate promise -- or a vacuously true statement -- because you can't get to the end of the rainbow.A...
View ArticleFTL, causation, and simultaneity
The question arose in an earlier discussion as to how faster than light (FTL) travel and relativity combine to violate causation. That involves an understanding that relativity gives observers going at...
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There Are Fifteen Humans, and One Dog, Running for Mayor of Oakland.
It's not like a dog couldn't do a better job. After all, the City of Oakland can't manage its police or its pensions, can't seem to hold onto its sports teams (Cf. Warriors, Raiders), can't decide on a...
View ArticleThe World's Anti-Nativity Story
“Grandma, what do you mean when you say that all things are Relative - even Christmas ?” “Well now, Baby Girl, why let’s take the Nativity Story about Baby Jesus’s Birth. After all, this is the Season...
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03/04 Open Thread: Making Up Time
A horrible multiple-entendre, but such, perhaps, is life, reality and, most probably, time itself. I plan not to address catching up, in any sense, or with regard to anything, but of fabricating "time"...
View ArticleJust when you think the universe can’t get any stranger…
The New York Times has a fascinating read. It appears the long-standing discontinuity between relativity and quantum mechanics may be reaching a resolution.For the last century the biggest bar fight in...
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Researchers propose a plausible Source for Dark Energy
——First off, what is Dark Energy and why does it matter?It is one of the great unanswered questions in the science of Astronomy. Dark Energy is the “fudge factor” in otherwise precise mathematical...
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