L. Marcus Posted July 6, 2016 Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 If she's anything like Hera, then Jupiter is in for an earful. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 6, 2016 Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 Life on Titan got a little more plausible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 6, 2016 Report Share Posted July 6, 2016 Is a bit old (december 2014), but I just noticed it: Did you smell something? http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/12/curiosity-samples-methane-surges-in-martian-atmosphere/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted July 7, 2016 Report Share Posted July 7, 2016 July Scientific American has a feature article on the discovery of Laniakea. As one may recall, Laniakea -- the super-duper-cluster that holds the Milky Way -- is currently the largest known gravitationally bound structure in the Universe. The issue also has brief articles about Juno's arrival at Jupiter and a proposal to build a "sunshade" to assist space-based telescopes in imaging exoplanets. Dean Shomshak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 New dwarf planet discovered Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2016 Rosetta's Grand Finale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted July 13, 2016 Report Share Posted July 13, 2016 http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/a-big-bang-or-a-big-bounce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Nice!..but it kinda seems like mathmatical handwaving... Love to see an experiment designed though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Nice!..but it kinda seems like mathmatical handwaving... Love to see an experiment designed though!If they prove that the universe is endlessly recurring, someone owes Nietzsche 500 marks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Well...Maybe, but until it is obseved it could both be, and not be...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Well...Maybe, but until it is obseved it could both be, and not be...?Schrodinger's Universe? Maybe it's a hologram too, so we just keep rebooting the Matrix every trillion years or so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 If they prove that the universe is endlessly recurring, someone owes Nietzsche 500 marks. will he accept Euros? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 14, 2016 Report Share Posted July 14, 2016 Schrodinger's Universe? Maybe it's a hologram too, so we just keep rebooting the Matrix every trillion years or so... Yep... Perhaps intelligent life arises for that specific function, and the act of observing ultimately causes the reboot. The Universe is a Phoenix, and observation is the flame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted July 15, 2016 Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 I call these sorts of speculations "theological physics." One of the common elements is someone saying that whatever they speculate about is a "holy grail" for physics. Soooo tired of that particular figure of speech. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 15, 2016 Report Share Posted July 15, 2016 Well...I think unifying Probability, and Einsteinen theories would be the Excaliber of Physics.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 One of the common elements is someone saying that whatever they speculate about is a "holy grail" for physics. I keep waiting to hear something described as "the holy grail of archaeology". Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 I call these sorts of speculations "theological physics." One of the common elements is someone saying that whatever they speculate about is a "holy grail" for physics. Soooo tired of that particular figure of speech. Dean Shomshak A working Unified Field Theory (or similar terminology) would be just that. "Holy Grail" is the closest approximation they have. It is like the P vs NP problem of mathematics (find one P solution for any NP-complete problem, you found a P solution for all NP-complete problems). There is just no way to explain why either thing is important for those scientists, unless you are one of those scientists. They need to have something to explain "this is really important for us". And it will give us a imeasurable progress if we figure that out. pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Well, generally, figuring out how X causes Y advances not just scientific knowledge, but potentially technological knowledge as well(e.g., nuclear power). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 Or, people figure out how to do stuff, and then scientists arrive to explain how it was done. . . Amorkca 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 Did the sun steal Planet Nine (assuming it actually exists): http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/02/health/planet-nine-solar-system-irpt/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past life using regression therapy? tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Well, generally, figuring out how X causes Y advances not just scientific knowledge, but potentially technological knowledge as well(e.g., nuclear power). "What has quantum physics ever done that affects my real life?" Do you own a USB stick, SSD or any other Flash Memory like a Smartphone SD card? Quantum Tunnelling Effect! Without Quantum Physics we would have had no small, shockproof, persistent memory to put into those smartphones. Meaning no smartphones as we understand them today. Or, people figure out how to do stuff, and then scientists arrive to explain how it was done. . . Kinda like how Quantum Physics allows us to understand how Cold Fusion/LENR might be working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 A stepping stone to the wormhole? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/mag-portals.html Could these be used to propel vessels through space at hyper velocities between massive bodies in space? Christopher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 Coming soon... L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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