• Our Best Wishes for The New Year

    Updated: 2009-12-31 09:30:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy Was Our Universe Created By a Collision With a Parallel Universe Two of the World's Leading Physicists Present a Radical Theory Main December 31, 2009 Our Best Wishes for The New Year We're posting several of our most popular pieces from the past few months for your enjoyment this Holiday . Season In a couple of weeks we hope to go live as a new iPhone app . We'll announce to all once we're . approved Our thanks for making the past year at The Daily Galaxy such a rewarding adventure Posted at 01:30 AM in Admin Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments Post a comment : Name Email Address : Not displayed with comment . : URL Remember personal info : Comments Was Our Universe Created By a Collision With a Parallel Universe Two of the World's Leading Physicists Present a Radical Theory Main Our Partners Create Your iGoogle Galaxy Gadget Archives December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 About Us For more information on The Daily Galaxy and to

  • Was Our Universe Created By a Collision With a Parallel Universe? Two of the World's Leading Physicists Present a Radical Theory

    Updated: 2009-12-31 09:28:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy New Year's 1925 : Hubble's Discovery Reveals the Immense Scale of the Cosmos Main Our Best Wishes for The New Year December 31, 2009 Was Our Universe Created By a Collision With a Parallel Universe Two of the World's Leading Physicists Present a Radical Theory String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt , Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the Big Bang was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision of two universes which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time that were attracted toward each other by the leaking of gravity out of one of the universes . 0160 In their view of the universe the complexities of an inflating universe after a Big Bang are replaced by a universe that was already large . flat , and uniform with dark energy as the effect of the other universe constantly leaking gravity into our own and driving its acceleration . According to this theory , the Big Bang was not the beginning

  • New Year's 1925: Hubble's Discovery Reveals the Immense Scale of the Cosmos

    Updated: 2009-12-31 09:00:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy Was Inorganic Life Observed in Interstellar Dust Clouds A Holiday Classic Main Was Our Universe Created By a Collision With a Parallel Universe Two of the World's Leading Physicists Present a Radical Theory December 31, 2009 New Year's 1925 : Hubble's Discovery Reveals the Immense Scale of the Cosmos The greatest breakthrough in our understanding of the scale of the universe since Copernicus and Galileo came in October of 1923 when a young astronomer and athele and Rhodes Scholar from the University of Chicago discovered a Cephid variable in what was then known as the sprial nebula in Andromeda , or M31. Today we know M31 as the nearsest spiral galaxy to our own , but at the time it was argued that it was just a luminous cloud in the Milky . Way Using the 100 inch telescope at Chicago's Yerke's Observatory Edwin Hubble found that the timing of the Cephid in Andromeda carried a startling message : it was 900,000 light years away , ten times beyond the edges of the Milky Way . All prior measurements in history till that moment in late 1924 had vastly

  • Was Inorganic Life Observed in Interstellar Dust Clouds? -A Holiday Classic

    Updated: 2009-12-31 08:52:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy Did a Deep Bioshpere Precede Life on Earth's Surface Main New Year's 1925 : Hubble's Discovery Reveals the Immense Scale of the Cosmos December 31, 2009 Was Inorganic Life Observed in Interstellar Dust Clouds A Holiday Classic This summer , an international research team announced a breakthrough in self-replicating plasma crystals which could be an early form of inorganic life . New studies of dust that form lifelike structures suggest that extraterrestrial life may not be carbon-based at all . Researchers at the Russian Academy of Science , the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany , and the University of Sydney observed particles of inorganic dust form helical structures and go through other lifelike changes . If you think that's the plot of a movie with a special effects budget and an extremely expendable cast of extras , congratulations , you just thought of something far more likely than what they . claim The experiments took place under simulated plasma conditions , representative of space and also the primordial Earth . These

  • Become a Fan & Share With Your Friends @The New Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2009-12-31 08:12:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy You Create the Caption Main Music's Power to Trigger Our Memories A Holiday Feature December 31, 2009 Become a Fan Share With Your Friends The New Daily Galaxy Facebook Page Link Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page Posted at 12:12 AM in Admin Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments Post a comment : Name Email Address : Not displayed with comment . : URL Remember personal info : Comments You Create the Caption Main Music's Power to Trigger Our Memories A Holiday Feature Our Partners Create Your iGoogle Galaxy Gadget Archives December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 About Us For more information on The Daily Galaxy and to contact us please visit this page

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2009-12-31 08:06:00

  • Odds are this Galaxy Will Trigger One of the Most Explosive Events Ever

    Updated: 2009-12-30 08:18:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy Does True Genius Have a Genetic Basis Experts Say Yes With Possible Slightly Psychotic Side Effects Main How Much Energy is Left in the Cosmic Fuel Tank December 30, 2009 Odds are this Galaxy Will Trigger One of the Most Explosive Events Ever Scientist believe that most galaxies , certainly all the spiral ones , have such supermassive black holes in the center . 0160 Several have been observed or inferred by their radiation signatures , polar jets or other massively energetic effects . 0160 While the exact mechanics of such singularity-centrality have to be worked out , a simple picture can explain why they should be there . 0160 Of all the places in the universe , a galactic core is the most likely place for a vast star to form and then collapse into a black hole or for a smaller black hole to consume enough matter to become . supermassive Once the hole passes a certain size its gravitational attraction will shape the orbits of everything it doesn't eat . 0160 It no longer matters if it was exactly at the center before it's made itself the center now .

  • Is the "Great Void" One-Billion Light Years Across the Imprint of Another Universe or a Statistical Error?

    Updated: 2009-12-29 09:00:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy Fortunate Accidents The Science Of Serendipity Main You Create the Caption December 29, 2009 Is the Great Void One-Billion Light Years Across the Imprint of Another Universe or a Statistical Error In 2004 astronomers found an enormous hole in the southern hemisphere of the Universe , nearly a billion light-years across , empty of both normal matter such as stars , galaxies , and gas , and the mysterious , unseen dark matter . quot This was a startling finding , since accepted models of the early universe say that the big bang created an initially uniform cosmic landscape , when viewed on large scales . While earlier studies have shown holes , or voids , in the large-scale structure of the Universe , this discovery dwarfed them all . This nothing is an enormous hole in the cosmos that defies standard cosmology and might just be the imprint of another universe bumping against our own while some astronomers suggested the spot could be a supervoid , a remnant of an early phase transition in the . universe This giant cold spot has a cosmic microwave background

  • A Huge Galaxy Discovered Surrounding the Most Distant Black Hole (A Holiday Classic)

    Updated: 2009-12-29 08:56:00
    The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy Has the Human Species Leap-Frogged the Laws of Evolution Main Fortunate Accidents The Science Of Serendipity December 29, 2009 A Huge Galaxy Discovered Surrounding the Most Distant Black Hole A Holiday Classic Scientists have spotted a giant galaxy at the edge of the observable universe . 0160 Detecting this huge galaxy the same size as the Milky Way was a challenge because of the massive quantities of light coming from the black hole , and if you think you spotted two problems in that sentence , read . on The galaxy , which is 12.8 billion light-years from Earth , is as large as the Milky Way galaxy and harbors a supermassive black hole that contains at least a billion times as much matter as does our Sun It is surprising that such a giant galaxy existed when the universe was only one-sixteenth of its present age , and that it hosted a black hole one billion times more massive than the sun . The galaxy and black hole must have formed very rapidly in the early universe , quot said University of Hawaii astronomer Dr . Tomotsugu Goto who discovered the .

  • Image of the Day: Deathly Beauty of The Bubble Nebula

    Updated: 2009-12-29 08:08:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy : Great Discoveries Channel Science News , Tech News , Astronomy and Space Exploration Follow the Daily Galaxy The Daily Flash Eco , Space , Tech 12 28 Main There are Reasons Evolution Added a Time-Limit to Life The Dangers of Immortality December 29, 2009 Image of the Day : Deathly Beauty of The Bubble Nebula The mesmerizing Bubble Nebula or NGC 7635 is 10 light-year diameter object a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble . Above and right of the Bubble's center is a hot , O-type star , several 100,000 times more luminous and approximately 45 times more massive than our Sun . Fierce stellar winds and intense radiation from that star has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud . Image Credit : Brad Ehrhorn Adam Block NOAO AURA NSF Posted at 12:08 AM Permalink Email this post Show your . support Recommend this article Comments Post a comment : Name Email Address : Not displayed with comment . : URL Remember personal info : Comments The Daily Flash Eco , Space , Tech 12 28 Main There are Reasons Evolution

  • You Create the Caption

    Updated: 2009-12-29 08:03:00

  • Coma-ruga 2010. 6th International Workshop on Nanomagnetism and Superconductivity

    Updated: 2009-12-24 00:00:00
    Workshop: 30 Jun 2010 - 4 Jul 2010, Coma-ruga, El Vendrell, Tarragona, Spain.

  • Magnetic Phenomena in Micro- and Nano-Structures (MPMNS'10)

    Updated: 2009-12-24 00:00:00
    Workshop: 27 May 2010 - 29 May 2010, Donetsk, Ukraine.

  • Particle physics experiment construction a boon for Minnesota neighbors

    Updated: 2009-12-22 00:01:40
    This video first appeared in Fermilab Today November 6. In this video, residents of northern Minnesota and the construction workers building the NOvA neutrino detector facility discuss the benefits project construction has brought their communities. The facility will house a multi-ton particle detector that will investigate the role of subatomic particles called neutrinos in the origin of [...]

  • Diffraction 2010

    Updated: 2009-12-21 00:00:00
    Workshop: 10 Sep 2010 - 15 Sep 2010, Otranto, Lecce, Italy.

  • December 2009 issue of symmetry now online

    Updated: 2009-12-18 23:46:12
    From data preservation to recycling old physics machines, the adventures of a breakthrough space telescope, Nerdcore rap, physics opera, astronomical toilet paper, and more.

  • Is that a snowflake or a particle track?

    Updated: 2009-12-18 19:15:45
    Fermilab created a season's greetings card using particle physics flair and a US milestone. Send the card to your fellow fans of physics.

  • Has Dark Matter Finally Been Detected?

    Updated: 2009-12-18 03:09:54
    No. The CDMS experiment today reported the observation of two events, with an expected background of .8 events (I gather this is a 1.5 sigma result, but there is no arXiv preprint yet). Based on this, the Guardian reports that “Hunt may well be over for mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of [...]

  • Dark matter experiment results announced

    Updated: 2009-12-18 00:04:33
    In the analysis of new data, scientists from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment have detected two events that have characteristics consistent with the particles that physicists believe make up dark matter. However, there is a chance that both events could be the signatures of background particles–other particles with interactions that mimic the signals of dark matter candidates.

  • Interactions, Disorder, and Topology in Quantum Hall Systems

    Updated: 2009-12-18 00:00:00
    Workshop: 7 Jun 2010 - 11 Jun 2010, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Organized by Alexander Mirlin/Felix von Oppen.

  • Dark Matter Detected, or Not? Live Blogging the Seminar

    Updated: 2009-12-17 21:22:39
    1:10 PM:  As previously reported by Sean, the physics community has been all atwitter recently with rumors that the CDMS collaboration has observed dark matter events.  Personally, I have heard rumors that they have either 0, 1, 3, or 4 signal events above the 0.5 events expected from background, with the number being dependent on [...]

  • And the Eagerly-Awaited Dark Matter Result Is…

    Updated: 2009-12-17 21:08:33
    … not yet released, but we’ll find out in just a bit. 2:00 p.m. Pacific time, to be exact. Last week we mongered the rumor that the CDMS experiment was going to announce an exciting new result soon — and that time is now. (My guess remains: some interesting data that falls well [...]

  • Supernova Explosions Stay In Shape

    Updated: 2009-12-17 05:00:00
    A new study of supernova remnants allowed scientists to categorize the explosion that created them based on their shape

  • Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter?

    Updated: 2009-12-17 00:00:00
    Workshop: 31 May 2010 - 4 Jun 2010, Dresden, Germany. Organized by Patrick Charbonneau (USA), Karen Daniels (USA), Matthias Schroeter (Germany).

  • Few Body Dynamics in Atoms, Molecules and Planetary Systems

    Updated: 2009-12-16 00:00:00
    Workshop: 28 Jun 2010 - 1 Jul 2010, Dresden, Germany. Organized by Andreas Buchleitner, Florin Diacu, Gregor Tanner.

  • Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

    Updated: 2009-12-10 05:00:00
    This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.

  • The Crab Nebula: A Cosmic Icon

    Updated: 2009-11-23 05:00:00
    Spectacular death of a star in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D.

  • NASA's Great Observatories Examine the Galactic Center Region

    Updated: 2009-11-10 05:00:00
    In this spectacular image, observations using infrared light and X-ray light see through the obscuring dust and reveal the intense activity near the galactic core.

Last Months Items