James Randerson, science correspondent
Friday May 5, 2006 The Guardian The universe is at least 986 billion years older than physicists thought and is probably much older still, according to a radical new theory.
The revolutionary study suggests that time did not begin with the big bang 14 billion years ago. This mammoth explosion which created all the matter we see around us, was just the most recent of many. The standard big bang theory says the universe began with a massive explosion, but the new theory suggests it is a cyclic event that consists of repeating big bangs and big crunches - where every particle of matter collapses together. Comment: Joseph Henry Press has the following to say on this topic...See here
Traditionally, cosmologists have scoffed at amateurs who dared to ask such questions. Imagine my fascination, then, to discover that some of those very cosmologists themselves secretly harbored the same wonders about what happened ìbefore the beginning. I remember when this realization hit me, while listening to the cosmologist Andrei Linde deliver a talk at a workshop in 1991, in which his discussion led up to asking what happened before the big bang. "It is impossible to ask the question," he said. "But it is impossible not to be curious about this." After his talk, I interviewed him and asked for details. "I would say that what we are seeing now perhaps was not the big bang but was one in a sequence of bangs," he said. "There are many small bangs. The universe not only produces galaxies, it reproduces itself many times." So if Linde is right, it does make sense to ask what happened before our big bang. And it does make sense to talk about more than one "universe." The universe we see may be just one member of an extended ultracosmic family. As Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, puts it, "Our entire universe may be just one element - one atom, as it were - in an infinite ensemble: a cosmic archipelago." It's as dramatic a shift in human thinking, Rees writes, as the Copernican revolution and the subsequent realization "that the Earth is orbiting a typical star on the edge of . . . just one galaxy among countless others." In a similar way, the universe may be just one "bubble" of space in a megafroth of cosmic carbonation extending far beyond the view of any conceivable telescope...." |
May 4 2006
UPI WASHINGTON - Astronomers say NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving them their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter.
The sighting marks the first time in history astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new red spot on the Solar System's giant planet, half a billion miles from Earth. Researchers suggest the new red spot may be related to a possible major climate change in Jupiter's atmosphere. |
Manichi Daily News
April 20 2006 A new giant picture on the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which is famous for giant patterns that can be seen from the air, has been discovered by a team of Japanese researchers.
The image is 65 meters long, and appears to be an animal with horns. It is thought to have been drawn as a symbol of hopes for good crops, but there are no similar patterns elsewhere, and the type of the animal remains unclear. The discovery marks the first time since the 1980s that a picture other than a geometrical pattern has been found on the Nazca Plateau. |
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