{"id":2060,"date":"2008-12-12T20:21:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:11:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:11:52","slug":"a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"A bang."},"content":{"rendered":"

V<\/span>ia New Scientist:\"A<\/a> researchers have worked on a (computer) model that suggests that our universe could have emerged from another collapsing universe<\/a>. The researchers based their model on a theory called the Loop Quantum Cosmology<\/a>, which was (originally) proposed<\/a> in 2003. At the end of the article, there’s a funny quote about how these physicist came up on LQC:\n<\/p>\n

“From a physicist’s point of view, it is fully justified. Mathematicians perhaps would not be amused.”\n<\/p>\n

I hear that if you give mathematicians a couple of beers, you can convince them that the Earth is only 5,000 years old. I’m not joking: please try it on your local math teacher!\n<\/p>\n

This is important news: there’s finally empirical<\/em> evidence that our galaxy, the proud Milky Way, has a white creamy coconut center<\/a> and a soft crunchy chocolate crust, that melts in the mouth, not in your hands. Or as astronomers would say, a black hole in its center. I may have mentioned this a couple of years ago, but this black hole story is actually old news<\/a>, I mean astronomers were already convinced that our galaxy had a black hole in its center. Obviously, it took many years to collect the evidence for this. Additionally, witness the smartness of the Slashdot crowd<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

When i heard that there were black holes in other galaxies, i was fine with that, since they are so far away. But now i hear there is one in OUR galaxy? That’s kinda scary, since its so close to us!\n<\/p>\n

Oh: this Hubble telescope that they launched in the 80s, yes? It still seems to be hitting the news: this time, astronomers managed to find CO2 in the atmosphere of a planet circling around a star<\/a>, what, 65 million light-years away.\n<\/p>\n

And hanging around the Discovery site: Did you know that 2008 will get one extra second<\/a>? I remember this happened years ago too, which is exactly the reason why I tend to be at work 2 seconds later than normal. Who else can I blame for this?\n<\/p>\n

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Update 1: <\/strong>Weird The Onion picture about science.<\/a><\/p>\n

Update 2: <\/strong> Related: Astronomers dissect a black hole<\/a> with. What?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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