Space Music: Carl Sagan –“A Glorious Dawn”
In another installment of space music, I have to help spread the word about this marvelous audiovisual creation by John Boswell, AKA melodysheep of Color Pulse Music. What he’s done here is take...
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Disruptive Change – “In 1981, your $100 got you about a second of HD Video. By 1993, your $100 could cover about a minute of HD Video. By 2000, your $100 got you about an hour and 15 minutes of HD...
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Mystery ‘dark flow’ extends towards edge of universe – “SOMETHING big is out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. That’s the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy...
View ArticleGood question – How can a human being get a perspective on the size of the...
We know that the universe is big – billions of lightyears across. But how can a human being get a perspective on the size of the universe? This video is best watched full screen in HD, but anyway you...
View ArticleGood question – What does it mean when they say the universe is expanding?
You may have heard the idea that the universe is expanding. How do we know this, and what does it mean? The idea is explained in this video: As the video explains, the expanding universe concept was...
View ArticleAmazing – The scale of our universe
It’s our universe from the smallest to the largest items, presented through an amazing animation: The Scale of the Universe Here is another perspective on the same idea: How big is the universe? See...
View ArticleGood question – How fast are you moving through the universe right now?
Chances are that you are sitting in a chair right now, so it seems like you are stationary. But in fact you are moving through the universe at a tremendous speed at this very moment. Let’s take a look...
View ArticleGood question – How did the universe create complexity given the second law...
How did the universe create complexity given the second law of thermodynamics? It’s a fascinating question, because this is how life and humans were created in our universe. Here is an explanation in...
View ArticlePhysicist Postulates Dimensions Added as Universe Expands
(iStockphoto/Thinkstock) I remember many years ago in the mid-90s — during the zenith of paranoia in the alien abduction phenomenon — the whole affair being offhandedly dismissed by Car Sagan, I...
View ArticleHow do we know the age of the universe?
You asked: How do we know the age of the universe? Marshall Brain Answered: Scientists currently estimate the age of the universe to be 13.75 billion years old. This is the number of years that have...
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