CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, the Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood. It will take a month to get…
European Telescope Launched to Hunt for Clues to Universe’s Darkest Secrets
In Perennial Movement
Explore the world of motion and time—two concepts that have plagued scholars and philosophers. The curious stumble of the human being that has tried to explain two very different phenomena: motion and time through reasoning. …
In the Matrix? Cosmologist Explains How Humans Could Be Living in a Simulated Universe Beyond Perception
As a cosmologist, I often carry around a universe or two in my pocket. Not entire, infinitely large universes, but maybe a few billion light years or so across. Enough to be interesting. Of course, these are not “real” universes; rather they are universes I have simulated on a computer. The basic idea of simulating…
How Brain Cells Are Like Little Universes
The structures of the universe and the human brain are strikingly similar. In the Eastern spiritual discipline of Daoism, the human body has long been viewed as a small universe, as a microcosm. As billion-dollar investments are made in the United States and Europe to research brain functioning, the correlations between the brain and the…
The Heavens Declare (Episode 6): The Starlight Travel Dilemma Part2
This episode addresses the perceived problem of light travel of distant stars and how the universe can still be young. The experts introduce the idea of an expanding universe and the dynamics of the speed of light. They then delve into general relativity and present several creationist models for solving the light travel dilemma. Several…
The Heavens Declare (Episode 5): The Starlight Travel Dilemma Part1
This episode addresses the perceived problem of light travel of distant stars and how the universe can still be young. The experts introduce the idea of an expanding universe and the dynamics of the speed of light. They then delve into general relativity and present several creationist models for solving the light travel dilemma. Several…
Look Up! How Our Connections to the Stars and Nature Benefit Our Past, Present, and Future
With modern technology all around us, we often forget about the cycles of nature and the cosmos that our ancestors always relied on. But our health, knowledge, culture, and future are still impacted by our connection to the sun, moon, planets, and beyond. As humans, we’ve always looked up to the stars, to the planets,…
New Telescope Detects Hundreds of Mysterious Radio Signals, Sources Still Unknown
An astronomical phenomenon called fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been getting a lot of attention, as a new telescope is able to detect them far more often than was previously possible. These fast pulses of radio signals last only one to a few milliseconds, but on average they can release as much energy as our…
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