Rapid Supernova: New Class Of Exploding Star? Nov 6, 2009
"This is the fastest evolving supernova we have ever seen," said Poznanski, a UC Berkeley post-doctoral fellow who recently joined LBNL's Computational Cosmology Center ... The factory is a project led by Shri Kulkarni, professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and involves many of the co-authors on the Science Express paper, including Peter Nugent, co-leader of the Computational Cosmology Center at LBNL, who runs the search for transients ... Coauthors with... (Science Daily)
Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal Nov 4, 2009
3, 2009) A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by Sarah Church of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and by Walter Gear, of Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. These measurements of the cosmic microwave background -- a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe -- put... (Science Daily)
Best UGA outcome? Oct 31, 2009
I predict the scholar athletes from the University of Georgia will triumph over the scholar athletes from the University of Florida in a rather heated debate over the role of string theory in modern cosmology and subatomic physics. Look for some really pithy comments related to the Higgs boson from the UGA side. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher Oct 30, 2009
Shutt and Akerib are members of Case Western Reserve's Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, part of the Institute for the Science of Origins. Other institutions contributing to LUX are Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkley national laboratories, University of Maryland, Texas Aversity of California at Davis, University of Rochester, University of South Dakota and Yale. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
* Light-years later, Einstein still rules Oct 30, 2009
So we have to use cosmology: We use the universe as the lab ... So we have to use cosmology: We use the universe as the lab. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
After 7.3bn light yrs' journey, Einstein prevails Oct 30, 2009
"Whats really lacking," M 00004000 ichelson explained, "is a laboratory experiment that tells us anything. So we have to use cosmology: We use the universe as the lab.". The photons from GRB 090510, detected on May 9, ranged from 10,000 electron volts the energy unit of choice in physics to 31 billion electron volts, a factor of more than a million, in seven brief bursts over about two seconds. (India Times, India)
World's Fastest Supercomputer Models Origins Of The Unseen Universe Oct 28, 2009
27, 2009) Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group. See also. (Science Daily)
Galaxy cluster smashes distance record Oct 28, 2009
The same is true for galaxy clusters and our understanding of cosmology. The hunt is now on for similar distant clusters. (Astronomy Now Online)
Dark energy rips cosmos and agencies Oct 28, 2009
Meanwhile, NASA and ESA ploughed ahead with a design that became known as the International Dark Energy Cosmology Survey (IDECS). In April, this partnership also ended because the merger wasn t happening quickly enough. (Scientific American)
Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe Oct 27, 2009
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, October 26, 2009 Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group. "Because the universe is expanding and at the same time accelerating, either there is a huge gap in our understanding of physics, or there is a strange new form of matter that dominates the universe 'dark energy' making up about 70 percent of it," said Habib. (EurekAlert!)
Galileo upended science Oct 25, 2009
"He immediately made several surprising discoveries that contributed to the demise of the Earth-centered cosmology that had dominated Western thought for two millennia," says Robert Joseph, a professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii. Using ever-more powerful telescopes over the next year, Galileo observed that the Moon was not perfectly smooth as claimed by Aristotle but cratered and mountainous. (iAfrica.com)
Prominent mathematician Irving Gelfand dies in NJ Oct 9, 2009
"This is an exciting time in cosmology with new observational results coming in thick and fast and large-scale terrestrial and satellite experiments under way," Hawking said in a statement. "I want to make sure this progress is matched by the development of theories of the Universe which are both mathematically consistent and observationally testable.". (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
New Kind Of Search For Dark Energy: First Light For BOSS Oct 3, 2009
"Baryon oscillation is a fast-maturing method for measuring dark energy in a way that's complementary to the proven techniques of supernova cosmology," says Schlegel. "The data from BOSS will be some of the best ever obtained on the large-scale structure of the Universe.". (Science Daily)
University of Incheon/Berkeley Lab joint research on environmental-friendly energy Sep 23, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, represented by George Smoot of the Physics Division, has signed an agreement with representatives of South Korea's University of Incheon to explore the potential for joint scientific research in energy, biology, accelerators, cosmology, and space ... The partners anticipate that the research institution will span several areas the environmental-friendly energy research already mentioned, synthetic biology, cosmology,... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Dan Brown: Science makes more sense to me Sep 15, 2009
Then, in eighth or ninth grade, I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. I remember saying to a minister, "I don't get it. I read a book that said there was an explosion known as the Big Bang, but here it says God created heaven and Earth and the animals in seven days. Which is right?" Unfortunately, the response I got was, "Nice boys don't ask that question." A light went off, and I said, "The Bible doesn't make sense. Science makes much more sense to me." And I just... (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Is The Milky Way Doomed To Be Destroyed By Galactic Bombardment? Probably Not, Study Says Sep 1, 2009
Kazantzidis research was funded by the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at Ohio State. Other funding came from the National Science Foundation, NASA, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago. (Science Daily)
CMU professor investigates black holes Aug 31, 2009
She is now a leading light at the school's new McWilliams Center for Cosmology, established with a grant from alumnus Bruce McWilliams, CEO of Tessera Technologies, an electronics miniaturization firm. As she sits here on a planet orbiting one of a million stars in the Milky Way, she knows that the dark energy force that is pushing the galaxies apart eventually may cause the universe to disintegrate in a "big rip, so everything will be ripped apart.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Listening for Gravity Waves, Silence Becomes Meaningful Aug 27, 2009
"This is the first time that this type of experiment, directly searching for gravitational waves, has reached the sensitivity that is sufficient to start probing cosmology and early-universe models," Mandic says. LIGO comprises two observatory sites, in Washington State and Louisiana, each of which hosts an L-shaped laser interferometer with four-kilometer-long arms. (Scientific American)
Dark Energy From The Ground Up: Make Way For BigBOSS Aug 21, 2009
Beginning in the 1980s, methods for finding Type Ia supernovae on demand were developed by the international Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), based at Berkeley Lab and headed by Perlmutter, and adopted in 1994 by a rival team, the High-Z Supernova Search Team ... Baryon is cosmology-speak for ordinary matter, and acoustic oscillation is a fancy name for the way galaxies tend to bunch up at roughly 500 million light-year intervals ... One of the most interesting questions in cosmology is the... (Science Daily)
Lack of gravity waves limits cosmology theories Aug 20, 2009
"It's starting to limit some of the exotic models of cosmology.". For example, some models predict the existence of cosmic strings, which are loops in space-time that may have formed in the early universe and gotten stretched to large scales along with the expansion of the universe. (MSNBC -- Technology)
To understand the universe, science calls on the ultrasmall Aug 17, 2009
Although those properties make neutrinos difficult to detect, detecting and understanding them are key scientific pursuits, partly because of the implications for cosmology. "The neutrino has the smallest observed mass for any elementary particle, but they appear in such astonishing numbers in the universe that they are a large portion of its mass," said Steven Elliott, Ph. (EurekAlert!)
First black holes starved at birth Aug 15, 2009
"It has been speculated that these first black holes were seeds and accreted huge amounts of matter," said the study's leader Marcelo Alvarez, an astrophysicist at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology in California. "We're just finding out that it could be much more complex than that.". (MSNBC -- Technology)
Particle collider: World's largest machine Aug 8, 2009
We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe. . (India Times)
Particle Collider: Key Tool or Black Hole? Aug 8, 2009
"We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe." ... "We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on CREATION, we want to reCREATE a tiny piece of GENESIS to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.". (CBS News)
Using the Moon as a Giant Particle Accelerator Aug 6, 2009
Congratulations, you've just overturned everything we we know about cosmology and physics. And you didn't even need no book lernin to do it. (Newsmax)
Telescope an astronomical prize Jul 23, 2009
" This is the International Year of Astronomy and 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope, "which was a milestone for mankind," Kudritzki noted. "Now it's another milestone for astronomy, the largest telescope ever in the history of astronomy with breathtaking science," he said. The TMT began in 2004 led by Caltech and Associated Canadian Universities. Although it was his goal when he became IFA director to bring big telescopes to Hawaii, Kudritzki said the TMT "was a total team... (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
U.S. scientists detect giant supernovae farthest ever Jul 9, 2009
Last year, Cooke and other scientists with UCI's Center for Cosmology discovered a cluster of galaxies that occurred 11. 4 billion years ago, the farthest of its kind ever detected. (Xinhuanet, China)
Giant Supernovae Farthest Ever Detected Jul 9, 2009
Cooke and other scientists with UCI's Center for Cosmology last year discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that occurred 11 ... The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and generous donations from Gary McCue to the Center for Cosmology. (Science Daily)
Fields of Scientific Study Jul 5, 2009
Cosmology News Stories, Current Cosmology News Events, Discoveries and Articles. Manually add to your RSS reader. (BrightSurf.com)
interview with Michael Moorcock Jun 19, 2009
" Allow me to elaborate; who in his life inspired the ill-fated albino sorcerer-king? Is he a friend, a family member, or a reflection of himself at the time the stories were written? Furthermore, are the different faces of the Eternal Champion also totally different people, or are they just other facets of the same person who inspired Elric, seeing as all of those characters (Hawkmoon, Erekose, Corum, etc...) are all different facets of the same thing. Elric c'est moi, is the short answer. I've... (Harper's Magazine)
MSNBC Publishes Free Online Abridgment of 'Biocentrism' Jun 17, 2009
Link to exclusive online abridgement 'Biocentrism': How life creates the universe: Authors say cosmology misses the big picture unless it includes biology. About Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.. (PR Newswire)
Biocentrism: How life creates the universe Jun 17, 2009
Authors say cosmology misses the big picture unless it includes biology. BenBella Books"Biocentrism," by Robert Lanza with Bob Berman, lays out the concept that life and consciousness make the cosmos what it is. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Nurturing nonbelief: Parents gather to talk about raising kids without religion May 28, 2009
"No, some matters may turn out to be beyond our abilities due to constraints imposed by nature: consider physics at the Planck length and cosmology before the Big Bang. String (now M) theories are an attempt at getting around this, but we can't build accelerators big enough to really get a handle on what's really true. We hope to get lucky, that's all.Science will say: "I don't really know" when it doesn't know; religion pretends it knows, without any experiments and without really examining the... (Winona Daily News, MN)
* Science Express brings future one station at a time May 24, 2009
The exhibition, which is set to visit 60 German cities by November, is staged on a specially-modified 12-carriage train with each car dealing with a different aspect of science, from cosmology to particle physics and evolution. When the train rolled into platform two at Berlins futuristic Hauptbahnhof (central station), people were queuing up to visit the free displays. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better May 23, 2009
SNfactory member Yannick Copin of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon (IPNL), who is visiting the Physics Division on an American Astronomical Society Chr;tien Research Grant and who specializes in integral field spectrometry, says, These are the first general cosmology results from the large, full-spectrum sample obtained by SNIFS, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. It shows we can do much more in cosmology with spectral time series than we could ever do before ... Says Aldering,... (Science Daily)
Sci-fi 'Demons' are in the details of antimatter May 21, 2009
Matter and antimatter annihilate each other, so why matter the stuff of stars, planets and people dominates the universe is one of the mysteries of cosmology. In real life, antimatter is found only in lab experiments and when cosmic rays smack into the atmosphere, spitting out brief-lived physics exotica every once in a rare while. (USA Today -- Tech)
> read more May 15, 2009
In today's standard model of cosmology, the extremely early universe experienced an incredible growth spurt known as inflation, expanding by perhaps 1026 times or more in just 10 32 second. In its simplest version, inflation should have produced gravitational waves, which should impart specific patterns on the CMB polarization known as "B modes." Detecting these B modes would clinch the case for inflation. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Our Universe Could be One of Many May 5, 2009
But it is nonetheless a successful theory that is said to be one of the best ideas in cosmology to come for a long time. How Will Cosmologists Find Signs of a Universe Crash. (Suite101.com)
First Trillionth Of A Second After Big Bang May 4, 2009
31, 2007) In the standard model of cosmology, the early universe underwent a period of fantastic growth. This inflationary phase, after only a trillionth of a second, concluded with a violent conversion of. (Science Daily)
Does a family need a collective spiritual life? Apr 18, 2009
As a result, I developed a much greater certainty in my own views of cosmology and morality, and no longer felt intimidated whenever some Christian blowhard started spouting off ... What remains an interesting question to me is why do otherwise intelligent people have such a willingness to accept mythological explanations in answer to our deepest questions about cosmology i.e. what is the origin, nature and structure of the Universe we live in. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Renowned cosmologist speaks on universe Apr 17, 2009
The Princeton professor is a leading cosmologist with a history of groundbreaking contributions to the fields of cosmology and astrophysics ... He also helped transform physical cosmology into a respected field in science ... I chose to attend this colloquium, because cosmology is an interesting topic, sophomore Charles Munson said. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Sorry, But The Science Is Never 'Settled' Apr 9, 2009
An Earth-centered cosmology was first proposed by the Greek philosopher Eudoxus in the fourth century B.C.. Impious Aristarchus. (Investors Business Daily)
Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics Apr 4, 2009
"It's a powerful approach," said University of Michigan computer scientist , with "the potential to apply to any type of dynamical system." As possible fields of application, Pollack named environmental systems, weather patterns, population genetics, cosmology and oceanography. "Just about any natural science has the type of structure that would be amenable," she said. (Newsmax)
Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data Apr 3, 2009
They have tested their method, or algorithm, on simple mechanical systems and believe it could be applied to more complex systems ranging from biology to cosmology and be useful in analyzing the mountains of data generated by modern experiments that use electronic data collection. The research is published in the journal Science (April 3, 2009) by Hod Lipson, Cornell associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and graduate student Michael Schmidt, a specialist in computational... (Science Daily)
Robots act as scientists without assistants Apr 3, 2009
"A lot of science today, especially cosmology and genomics, is generating massive amounts of data that scientists have to wade through," Lipson says. "We need a way like this one to make it easier.". (USA Today -- Tech)
Symmetry math sheds new light on fundamental physics Mar 27, 2009
The centre provides a multi-disciplinary environment to foster scientific collaboration in research areas of cosmology, particle physics, quantum foundations, quantum gravity, quantum information, superstring theory, and related disciplines. Located in Waterloo, Ontario, PI also provides a wide array of award winning outreach programs for students, teachers and the general public in order to share the joy of research, discovery and innovation. (EurekAlert!)
Holy photons Mar 25, 2009
"The implications of cosmology for these realms of thought may be profound, but diffidence prevents me from venturing into them," he has written. In short, it is good to be humble in the face of the mysteries that physics throws up. (BBC News -- Science)
Speaker asks pastors to listen more deeply Mar 24, 2009
Yes, I want to know the ultimate reality underlying everything: that's a question for physics and cosmology. religion and philosophy has taken us nowhere. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Dome Big Dome: Giant Observatories Augur New Era of Cosmology Mar 7, 2009
February 24, 2009 in. When a new generation of giant ground-based telescopes comes online in the next decade, human eyes will see what no one has seen before. (Scientific American)
More Than Just a Theory -- New Book Introduces Theories On Space, Time, and Matter Feb 26, 2009
He has given general and technical lectures on quantum mechanics, particle physics, general relativity, cosmology and string theory. He is an avid traveler who has visited some of the remotest places on earth. (Primezone Releases)
40-year Mystery Revisited: Newtonian System Mimics 'Baldness' Of Rotating Black Holes Feb 26, 2009
" This will have implications for gravitational-wave astronomy, he says, because the signal from such events may be detectable by the advanced LIGO-VIRGO-GEO network of ground-based laser interferometric detectors or by the proposed space-based LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). Will, who is also a visiting associate at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, is a theoretical physicist whose research interests encompass the observational and astrophysical implications of Einstein's... (Science Daily)
New search mounted for cosmic inflation Feb 25, 2009
A telescope at the South Pole is being fine tuned to search for gravity waves, hypothetical distortions of space-time that, if confirmed to exist, could further validate Einstein and reveal convincing evidence for a big cosmology theory ... At the AAAS meeting, Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss said he was pessimistic about the potential for cosmology to make new discoveries, based on the expansion of the universe. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Cosmological Simulations Key To Understanding The Universe Feb 23, 2009
Working with machines at Carnegie Mellon's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Di Matteo crafts computer simulations to better understand the physics of black holes and the role they play in galaxy formation. The superior computing power available using computers like the Cray XT3 system allow Di Matteo to input the extensive calculations necessary to incorporate black hole physics into such simulations. (Science Daily)
Researchers unveil new model of early universe Feb 18, 2009
Credit: Alvaro Orsi, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University ... "We are effectively looking back in time and by doing so we hope to learn how galaxies like our own were made and to understand more about dark matter," said lead study author Alvaro Orsi of Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Simulation targets early cosmos Feb 13, 2009
The simulation has been produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute of Computational Cosmology. "The calculation we've done has predictions for what we should see in a few years' time when the massive telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere are fitted with new instrumentation - cameras and detectors - to observe early epochs, stretching right back to when the Universe was less than a tenth of its present age," said Durham researcher Dr Carlton Baugh. (BBC News -- Science)
Nature Physics Feb 8, 2009
"Puzzling anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation across the sky are leading some researchers to contemplate cosmology in an asymmetric universe.". Npg Supplement. (Nature News Service)
