“The inconceivable nature of nature.” melodysheep’s channel | October 19, 2009 MP3 available at http://www.symphonyofscience.com. “We Are All Connected” was made from sampling Carl Sagan‘s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman‘s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye‘s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), […]
More Updike
Apropos Kerouac’s Sal Paradise feeling like “a speck on the surface of the sad red earth,” the following from John Updike on the influence of science on our sense of our place in the universe: The non-scientist’s relation to modern science is basically craven: we look to its discoveries and technology to save us from […]
Once More with Feeling, or the Eternal Return
According to Abhay Ashtekar, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University, the Big Bang theory of cosmology will need to be replaced by the Big Bounce. Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is a derivative of loop quantum gravity (LQG), which successfully combines Einstein’s General Theory of Relavitity based theory […]