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A lack of craters, that hadn't hit my consciousness. Perhaps Jupiter protects it? All the cracks, cooled off or dried out, or tectonic stress? The one crater looks like our Moon's Tycho, with the same light color material streaking a long ways out from it. Would that make both moons the same underly...

1. Is the universe infinite or finite? 2. Where does the space come from that the universe is expanding into, if it is indeed expanding, and if not expanding, where did it come from to begin with? 3. How did the universe start and how will it end? 1. In Western Philosophy 'either/or' is a favorite p...

I can see the newspaper headlines now; Scientists Prove Universe is Swiss Cheese Was God really suffering from an acute case of swiss-cheese-mind when he created everything? Or are these supervoids simply the wavefunction nodes where particles recycle back into the awareable universe from when they ...

[the Tanner Lectures link didn't work for me. boohoo] From Kauffman and Smolin, page 4 ; There may be something that corresponds to a "wavefunction of the universe" but it cannot be a vector in a constructible Hilbert space. Similarly, if the configuration space C of the theory is not cons...

. . . It is all Energy ! Hey Harry, Nice post, great quotes. Since a teenager I have been enamored in thinking about black holes and neutron stars, it's been 40 years, then I read 'The Electric Sky' and it turned me around. The data from observations is falling into a completely different picture, a...

Great photo, and something I knew nothing about in present time. Huell Howser did a PBS California's Gold program on this lighthouse, which I watched, tho I didn't know (or forgot) they did a once a year 'keep it in operating condition' run with the original style light! It sure looks great!!! Perha...

The Time is NOW, . . . the actual time is always NOW. We are always in the eternal NOW. Past and future are constructs by definition, by us. We invented the past and the future, and in thought we'd like to go there. Memory can remember the past, but we can't go there bodily. Imagination can comprehe...

To go a little bit out on a limb, I am willing to state the following: Anything containing protons, because of Inertia/Momentum, can never go at the speed of light, or better to call that - the Ratio of Space to Time. Because the Space Field and the Time Field overlap to make the SpaceTime Field, th...

Many thanks Chris, In terms of Electric Theory, they would hypothesize that Holmes, in its northernmost venturing in its orbit, would possibly be encountering a different area of the solar e-field, and that is the reason Holmes became active. I understand that you, and most of us, have the standard ...

Thanks Chris for all the info and your work to gather it. I didn't realize Holmes, (and I appreciate your calling it Holmes and not Comet Holmes) only orbited the Sun between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, so it therefore does not qualify to be called a Comet, like all the media is calling it. (mor...

Craterchains, Personally I find the alien weapons concept 'less likely' rather than 'more probable', but that doesn't mean it is 'impossible' or 'it can't happen here'. So, personal intuitions aside, what are these 'weapons' firing? Is it a physical projectile, or is it more of an 'energy weapon'? W...

Chris, When you say << "That outer coma is mostly gas rather than dust. The growth rate of the coma initially appeared linear, but now seems to be showing a very slight increase with time. The initial dust ejection velocity was about 500 meters per second from the nucleus (similar to what was m...

Is the 'dust' of Holmes' coma 'finely divided' dust? Has there been any determination of the constituents in terms of elements in Holmes' coma dust? Would its occulting or eclipsing of star Mirafak (sp) on Monday lend any help in determination by starlight absorption lines etc.? "I say Holmes, ...

To get to the next star quickly, we must shed our protons. It's not so much the speed; its the acceleration, the temperature, pressure, radiation, food, air etc. The human body is not outer space compatible, it's outer space challenged. When we can be free of the body, we will be ready to venture of...

In searching for some recent pictures of Tunguska this arrived. http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060202tunguska.htm http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060203tunguska2.htm It's a good read and worthy of consideration, as heinously disallowed as APOD regards it notwithstanding....

If, as Michael's ideas run to, the bulk of our sun is an iron mix in a rather static form and occupying over 90% of the diameter of the sun (correct me if I have some things wrong here Michael, I'm dropping in on this conversation from the library in Canada) ; and all stars are basically this kind o...

I guess I got in the habit of hanging around here, as after a while relationships develop and the daily photos are so great. Maddad, For 5 years Dobson was my focus of study. I tried to say too much too fast. Information isn't the same as mass, but it is connected to it somehow, hadn't thought of it...

Nice topic Neried ! And a good unfolding of the subject as well. How do we know what we think we know? That is the basis and method of science. I hadn't thought about it for a while, but yes I do accept spectroscopy as valid, even tho I don't believe in photons ! LOL It's funny how religion and scie...

<<I have been trying to understand why physicists do not like information being destroyed when a black hole evaporates. The limit of what I have gleaned so far is that quantum mechanics forbids it. The logic is not much above saying that the ball is red because light reflected by it has that color. ...

Once Upon A Time: The earth was the center of the universe, http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/aristotle.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_system It was flat, http://home1.gte.net/deleyd/religion/galileo/flatearth.html http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm Then it was ...

Has anyone been able to demonstrate 'magnetic reconnection' in the laboratory?

If not, perhaps we can lay to rest that premise in the operation of our Sun's behaviour.

Article titles aside; they present some interesting ideas, tho they do not prove their premise, they are worth considering and pursuing for more data. Correlating anomalies of the microwave sky: The Good, the Evil and the Axis Authors: Aleksandar Rakic, Dominik J. Schwarz http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-...

Neried, I apologize for irritating/frustrating you. I'm sorry. Yes, I don't know the same things you do. I appreciate your effort to enlighten me. I do like it when you explain things. It helps me understand what you know, and what is. Yes, I am the same Kovil who does all the posts under that ID. W...

Ok, even tho we speak a different language and have ourselves oriented to different conceptualizations, we can still speak of 'what is out there', based on observations. I subscribe to the idea that 'space-time' is NOT expanding like the Cosmological Constant implies. I believe we are mis-interpreti...

Based on observations of galactic behaviour, and using the our calculations from the visible light and other spectrums to estimate what the mass of a galaxy would be, there seems to be too much gravity energy present to be accounted for by the visible matter we think we are seeing. Dark Matter and D...