tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33545602908468879982024-03-13T18:01:10.414-04:00Outer SpaceHello! Is there anybody out there?<br>The mysteries of outer space and the search for Earth-like exoplanets.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-27449659953684693242014-06-24T10:54:00.000-04:002014-06-24T10:54:25.688-04:00Emergence: By Cosmos Or By Life?In the most general sort of way, as one makes progress from simplicity to complexity, more and more properties seem to emerge, sometimes seeming out of thin air. This is also oft noted as a bottom-up development of the complexity hierarchy or where the whole becomes more than the sum of its collective parts. One termite can't accomplish very much; ten termites just a little; but a colony of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-13577207175271135532014-06-23T11:44:00.001-04:002014-06-23T12:23:09.606-04:00Red Dwarfs May Be Unfit Parent StarsRed dwarf stars are the smallest true stars dancing around in our Galaxy, as well as the most abundant. Because of their small size--by star standards, that is--they can "live" for trillions of years on the hydrogen-burning main-sequence, and the Universe itself is "only" about 13.8 billion years old. For these reasons, many astronomers have suggested that most of the exoplanets in our Milky Way Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-21486431895657950412014-06-22T13:28:00.001-04:002014-06-24T10:54:17.614-04:00Closer To Truth: AliensThere is an ongoing PBS TV series (also several books and also a website) called "Closer To Truth". It is hosted by neuroscientist Robert Lawrence Kuhn. He's featured in one-on-one interviews and panel discussions with the cream of the cream of today's cosmologists, physicists, philosophers, theologians, psychologists, etc. on all of the Big Questions surrounding a trilogy of broad topics - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-69442476714884289032014-06-22T12:44:00.000-04:002014-06-22T15:43:50.842-04:00Exoplanet Duo Orbits A Nearby Ancient Kapteyn's StarAlien worlds are exoplanets that circle stars beyond our Sun. For a generation now, planet-hunting astronomers have been spotting these very remote worlds, and have found that while some bear an almost eerie resemblance to the eight familiar major planets that dwell in our own Solar System, others are so bizarre that they are unlike anything astronomers ever dreamed of seeing.
In June 2014, an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-60026830581959280312014-06-22T11:39:00.000-04:002014-06-22T15:38:57.839-04:00Kepler 10c Earthlike Planet Enormous Rocky Alien WorldThe first discovery of an alien world circling a Sun-like star beyond our own Solar System occurred back in 1995, and it was an amazing find--a massive gas-giant, Jupiter-like planet hugging its parent star in a fast, close, roasting orbit. Prior to this historic discovery, astronomers did not think that such immense gaseous worlds could exist so close to the searing-heat of their glaring, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-30796201786708003322014-06-22T10:26:00.000-04:002014-06-22T15:39:07.263-04:0010 Untruths Made In Science and The New Breakthrough Scientific ParadigmIndeed science has made extraordinary contributions, transformed society with its humanitarian knowledge. Its universal acceptance and influence continues unprecedentedly. However, for hundreds of years the scientific culture has been dogmatically stuck on a number of untruths.
The extent to which the scientific culture is stuck on these untruths has never been more noticeable than today: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354560290846887998.post-23871508026811095792014-06-21T09:50:00.000-04:002014-06-22T17:16:23.133-04:00The Hungry Star That Can't Stop SnackingWhen a small star like our Sun has finally begun to use up its necessary supply of hydrogen fuel, it first swells up to hideous proportions to become what is known as a Red Giant star. This very bloated, red-hued relic of what was once a small, sparkling Sun-like star balloons in size to the point that--if it is circled by inner, unfortunate planets--it will engulf them with its extended, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0