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First Light from Planck!8 comments

telescoper wrote 3 months ago: Credit to Andrew Jaffe for alerting me to the fact that ESA’s first press release concerning P … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmology, European Space Agency, planck

Lessening Anomalies2 comments

telescoper wrote 3 months ago: An interesting paper caught my eye on today’s ArXiv and I thought I’d post something her … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmic Anomalies, Cosmology, big bang, WMAP, Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect, 2MASS

The Cold Spot1 comment

telescoper wrote 4 months ago: Musing yesterday about the rapidly approaching restart of the academic year reminded me that I reall … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmic Anomalies, Cosmology, Bianchi cosmologies, polarization, cold spot

The Axle of Elvis8 comments

telescoper wrote 4 months ago: An interesting paper on the arXiv yesterday gave me a prod to expand a little on one of the cosmic a … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmic Anomalies, Cosmology, WMAP, spherical harmonics, Axis of Evil, joao magueijo, Kate Land

How Loud was the Big Bang?5 comments

telescoper wrote 7 months ago: The other day I was giving a talk about cosmology at Cardiff University’s Open Day for prospec … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmology, Physics, big bang, WMAP, Sound waves, Decibels

Dark Energy, or Cosmic Void? That is the Question...

Troythulu wrote 8 months ago: It seems to us as if the entire visible universe is expanding at an ever faster pace, a situation th … more →

Tags: General Science, Science, astronomy, Hypotheses, Galaxies, universe, Hypothesis, Supernova, Cosmology

QuAD constrains parity violation on a cosmic scale

mfrasca wrote 8 months ago: QuAD is a collaboration that involves several institutions that aims to measure polarization of phot … more →

Tags: Physics, Astrophysics, QuAD Collaboration, Parity violation

Ecliptic Anomalies10 comments

telescoper wrote 10 months ago: Once a week the small band of cosmologists at Cardiff University have a little discussion group duri … more →

Tags: Cosmic Anomalies, The Universe and Stuff, Cosmology, Ecliptic Plane, WMAP, Zodiacal Light

Power isn't Everything5 comments

telescoper wrote 11 months ago: Courtesy of NASA/WMAP science team The picture above shows the latest available all-sky map of fluct … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmology, astronomy, big bang, WMAP, Antarctica, spherical harmonics, Fourier transforms

Who put the Bang in Big Bang?25 comments

telescoper wrote 11 months ago: Back from the frozen North, having had a very nice time over Christmas, I thought it was time to rea … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmology, Physics, Particle Physics, Inflation, big bang

What Does it Mean to "Prove" the Big Bang? - De-Mything the "Myth" that It Has Not Been "Proven"

astrostu206265 wrote 1 year ago: Introduction The Big Bang is one of the fundamental theories (and I do mean “theory” in … more →

Tags: big bang, Creationism, ICR, Institute For Creation Research, Russ Humphreys, Danny Faulkner, Otto Berg, Jonathan Henry, big bang nucleosynthesis

A Lop-sided Universe?13 comments

telescoper wrote 1 year ago: Over on cosmic variance, I found an old post concerning the issue of whether there might be large-sc … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, bad statistics, Cosmic Anomalies, Cosmology

Mesmeric Universes4 comments

telescoper wrote 1 year ago: It’s probably going to be difficult to describe what these images really are without going int … more →

Tags: The Universe and Stuff, Cosmology, Science

Einstein's Universe

bloggsurfer wrote 1 year ago: Watch these videos from europeanhubblecast on Einstein’s view of the Universe, beautifully mad … more →

Tags: astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, videos, universe, einstein, General Relativity, Gravity, Black Hole

More cop-out shorties2 comments

evan wrote 1 year ago: I should stop calling these “cop-out” shorties, because apparently they have just become … more →

Tags: World News, Science, health, Space, big bang, Miracle Baby, fetal tumor, Embryonic Stem Cell, fetus in fitu


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