Two recent arXiv preprints combined make for an interesting idea. Here’s the most recent Science headline maker… Some black holes may be older than time …which handily has the arXiv link… Persistence of black holes through a cosmological bounce …Carr & Coley pose the idea that some black holes get through a cosmological Bounce (a
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From xkcd.com 65 Years Quotable quote… The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space–each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
R.J.Spivey writes a provocative essay for the arXiv… From Fermions to the Fermi Paradox: A Fertile Cosmos Fit for Life? …basically Spivey suggests we’re jumping to conclusions too soon about Life in the Cosmos, that the real party is after our current Stelliferous Era, when Life exists in a multitude of planets formed from supernova
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It’s all over the news! Earth-like Planet Found (for real)! Of course we don’t know much about Zarmina (Gliese 581 g) other than some very bare basics, but her discoverer, Steve Vogt, has expressed his near 100% certainty there’ll be Life on Zarmina of some kind. While I agree with his sentiment I think we
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Random Reality § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Marcus Chown discusses the information content of the Universe – what has pumped “information” into what began as a very simple world? Chown points out that ‘random’ sequences require more information to describe than ‘ordered’ & ‘repetitive’ sequences – think of vortices in swirling smoke versus the cubic perfection of salt-crystals.
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Part (I) William Hope Hodgson’s “The Night Land” is a perfect example of fin de cicle, end of the World, style writing from the end of the old naive belief in progress and bellicose sabre-rattling that had marked progressive thought in Europe’s 19th-early 20th Centuries. The Dark Clouds of War were gathering, but many responded
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Dr. Michael Persinger is a researcher in neuroscience at the Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada. He has made a wide-range of often controversial claims for the origins of “spiritual” experiences – for example, that magnetic stimulation of the brain can cause out-of-body and “Sensed Presence” experiences, or that natural geomagnetic disturbances, from “earth-lights” and similar
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The Gospel of Peter, translated by Raymond Brown. As provided by Peter Kirby’s indispensable “Early Christian Writings”. The key verses are… [55] And having gone off, they found the sepulcher opened. And having come forward, they bent down there and saw there a certain young man seated in the middle of the sepulcher, comely and
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