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  • The Most Astounding Fact {"We Are Stardust"}

    • 16 Mar 2012
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    "Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer."

     

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    "Composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish, one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,500 total recordings. In 2004, Carmichael's original 1927 recording of the song was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry."

    "And now the purple dusk of twilight time 
    Steals across the meadows of my heart
    High up in the sky the little stars climb
    Always reminding me that we're apart

    (You wander down the lane and far away)
    (Leaving me a song that will not die)
    (Love is now the stardust of yesterday)
    (The music of the years gone by)

    Sometimes I wonder why I spend
    The lonely night dreaming of a song
    The melody haunts my reverie
    And I am once again with you
    When our love was new
    And each kiss an inspiration
    But that was long ago
    Now my consolation
    Is in the stardust of a song

    Beside a garden wall
    When stars are bright
    You are in my arms
    The nightingale tells his fairy tale
    of paradise where roses grew
    Though I dream in vain
    In my heart it will remain
    My stardust melody
    The memory of love's refrain"

     

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  • Elenin and the Mystery of Exploding Comets

    • 15 Mar 2012
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    "Electric universe proponent David Talbott takes up the Comet Elenin question from a vantage point generally ignored by both the scientific mainstream and the Internet popularizers of Doomsday speculations. What is the relationship of Elenin's catastrophic demise to the larger, unsolved mystery of explosive comet disintegration? For a first look at the larger context, see "Seeking the Third Story"" 
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  • The Scale of the Universe 2

    • 4 Mar 2012
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    • Interactive March 04 2012 Scale Universe
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    The Scale of the Universe 2  lets you scroll in and out to see the size of things relative to other things.

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  • A Galactic Fairy Ring

    • 29 Aug 2011
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    "Today’s image is  billed as a ring of black holes. As such, it presents a fairy ring of gravitational fantasies.  

    The first fairy dances a fantasy of Redshift-is-Proportional-to-Distance, overlooking half a century of contrary evidence. That puts the ring far away. For the ring to appear as bright as it does, a second fairy must dance a pas de deux of Super Luminosity. To get that much energy from the feeble force of gravity, a third fairy must support the others with the Dance of Great Mass.  

    Since the ring is constrained by the Assumption of Equivalence of Mass and Matter, a fourth fairy must squeeze in—and be squeezed to a supernatural density. She (or he, we can’t tell at these densities) can’t dance but can only quiver and quake. When the other fairies bump into her, she does emit X-rays. The ring is the result of the crowded stage and the bumping.  

    Fairy rings and fantasy dances are entertaining, but when a theory requires this much supernaturalism, it would be wise to question assumptions. Astronomers no longer see what’s there but gaze with incurious enchantment upon artists’ impressions of obsolete hypotheses......

    ....As “mass and gas” astronomy pirouettes to ever more fanciful dances, plasma astronomy describes a natural history of electrical phenomena."      Mel Acheson

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  • Noosphere : Emergence of a Self-Reflective Universe

    • 29 Jul 2011
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    Fractal visualizations by Russian artist Tatiana Plakhova  
    Music: Solar Quest / Singtree  
      "Rather, evolution experiences jumps in complexity (such as the emergence of a self-reflective universe, or noosphere). The complexification of human cultures, particularly language, facilitated a quickening of evolution in which cultural evolution occurs more rapidly than biological evolution"    WIKI   
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  • Interactive Scale of the Universe

    • 18 Dec 2010
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  • Introducing Plasma Mythology

    • 11 Dec 2010
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    "The plasma universe ... 

    ...Space is not a vacuum punctuated by isolated bodies on perpetually stable courses, as defined by the law of gravity. Since the beginning of the Space Age, it has gradually been discovered that space consists for 99.99% of plasma and is threaded with electric filaments and magnetic fields spanning over many orders of magnitude. This new paradigm is known as plasma cosmology and was pioneered by the Swedish scientist, Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995). Plasma is a partially ionised gas regarded as the 'fourth state of matter', that responds with great sensitivity to changes in its magnetic fields and becomes visible to the human eye when it is pervaded by a sufficiently strong electrical current.  

    The solid rock, the oceans and the lower regions of the earth's atmosphere belong to the minute segment of the cosmos that is not in the plasma state. Yet the earth itself is bathed in an electromagnetic environment. This consists of the magnetic shell that shields the planet from the enveloping solar wind and other external features impinging on it, such as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) and, far less frequently, cometary intruders into the inner solar system. In addition, plasma penetrates and controls a range of terrestrial phenomena, such as the aurorae, lightning, fire, tornadoes and lava flows..."

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