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On Big Bang Theory's 100th episode, a 2008 interview with Bill Prady! (Audio Interview)

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Higgs boson 'God particle' close to capture, CERN scientists say

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Tevatron Particle Accelerator Shuts Down for Good

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Bacon cheese burger??

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A Logical Postivist Proof for God's Existence

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Older ,Farther Galaxy Found,Far back in Time.Image.

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Stephen Hawking And Richard Dawkins Singing About Big Bang

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GD&TOP High High Music Video

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Debunking Misconceptions About the Electric Universe

In the nearly eight years since the website Thunderbolts.info has gone online, perhaps the most common request we've received from readers is that we address the innumerable misrepresentations of the Electric Universe hypothesis on the Internet. Newcomers to the theory face an arduous task of sorting through the considerable confusion created by pseudoskeptics. It's not reasonable to expect proponents of "mainstream" theory to immediately embrace the EU; but it is reasonable to ask that EU critics make the effort to learn what the theory actually proposes before loudly denouncing it. Unfortunately, the most vocal opponents of the EU have consistently failed on this front. (A few responses by Professor Don Scott, Thunderblog editor and forum administrator Dave Smith, and Thunderbloggers Michael Gmirkin and Michael Goodspeed appear on these pages. More responses will be coming in the weeks ahead.)

The above interview with Wallace Thornhill is the first of a series of Q and A's with members of the Thunderbolts team, many of which will also be devoted to addressing misconceptions about the EU. It is the newcomer to EU for whom this first interview is mostly intended. Viewers who wish to suggest further questions or draw our attention to other issues calling for discussion may send their message(s) to Dave Smith.

One misconception not addressed in the above interview should be mentioned here. For years the Internet has been cluttered with reckless dismissals of the Thunderbolts group by self-proclaimed authorities. They would have their readers believe that only those uneducated in "real science" could be attracted to the Electric Universe.

A leading contributor and former administrator of physicsforums.com says: "Thunderbolts is a well-known crackpot site - not only is their material full of venom and vitriol towards the people who do real research, but their own 'science' doesn't even get to first base."

It's not clear to what extent such comments have discouraged curious folks from pursuing questions on their own. But one thing is undeniable -- the Electric Universe and the Thunderbolts group are attracting exceptionally well-educated readers, the best foundation for an enduring movement.

more at link...In the nearly eight years since the website Thunderbolts.info has gone online, perhaps... more

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Pope: God Behind Big Bang

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Astronomers had found evidence of something that occurred before the (conventional) Big Bang.

Our cosmos was "bruised" in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers... more

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Scientists create SuperNova in a Jar!

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Science Upended Again: The Fountain of Youth and Living Clouds

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Radiation ripples show the Big Bang may not have been the first, and there could be more to come

THE Big Bang might not have been the beginning of the universe, but just the start of a new chapter.
Scientists have found rings of radiation in the cosmos that may be older than the Big Bang, suggesting that event was just the latest in a series of rebirths, Wired reports.
The theory was proposed by Sir Roger Penrose, a theoretical physicist at Oxford University, and Vahe Gurzadyan of the Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia, in an article on arXiv.org.
The circles of radiation appear in concentric circles made up of below average temperature in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the leftover glow of the Big Bang.
The CMB — which dates back to 300,000 years after the Big Bang — is a consistent temperature, indicating the density.

According to the mathematical research, pulses of energy created a uniform region of dark matter, seen as circles. These pulses were the result of gravitational waves from previous eons running into the current one.
The researchers posit that a single Big Bang would release huge gravitational energy bursts, not in uniform waves as the circles indicate.
Sir Roger interprets the circles as ripple-like evidence of collisions between multiple supermassive black holes that occurred during the Universe's previous life, or eon, suggesting that there were and will be many more.
"What would normally be regarded as a probable entire history of our universe, starting with its Big Bang... is taken to be but one aeon in a (perhaps unending) succession of such aeons (sic)," the scientists say.
Sir Roger says these circles cannot be explained by the current "inflation theory" which posits that the universe grew rapidly from the size of an atom in the first nanoseconds of the Big Bang.
Inflation would most likely iron out these patterns, or not create them in the first place.
Princeton University cosmologist David Spergel told Wired that "the existence of large-scale coherent features in the microwave background of this form would appear to contradict the inflationary model".
However he added that there was not enough detail to assess the reality of the circles yet.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/radiation-rings-show-big-bang-may-have-been-just-one-of-many-and-theyre-not-over/story-e6frfrnr-1225963294939THE Big Bang might not have been the beginning of the universe, but just the start of... more

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Cosmos may show echoes of events before Big Bang

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Early Universe Was a Liquid, Nuclei Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Show

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Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang?

The current cosmological census is that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago with the Big Bang. But a legendary physicist says he's found the first evidence of an eternal, cyclic cosmos.

The Big Bang model holds that everything that now comprises the universe was once concentrated in a single point of near-infinite density. Before this singularity exploded and the universe began, there was absolutely nothing - indeed, it's not clear whether one can even use the term "before" in reference to a pre-Big-Bang cosmos, as time itself may not have existed yet. In the current model, the universe began with the Big Bang, underwent cosmic inflation for a fraction of a second, then settled into the much more gradual expansion that is still going on, and likely will end with the universe as an infinitely expanded, featureless cosmos.

Sir Roger Penrose, one of the most renowned physicists of the last fifty years, takes issue with this view. He points out that the universe was apparently born in a very low state of entropy, meaning a very high degree of order initially existed, and this is what made the complex matter we see all around us (and are composed of) possible in the first place. His objection is that the Big Bang model can't explain why such a low entropy state existed, and he believes he has a solution - that the universe is just one of many in a cyclical chain, with each Big Bang starting up a new universe in place of the one before.

How does this help? Well, Penrose posits the end of each universe will involve a return to low entropy. This is because black holes suck in all the matter, energy, and information they encounter, which works to remove entropy from our universe. (Where that entropy might go is another question entirely.) The universe's continued expansion into eventual nothingness causes the black holes themselves to evaporate, which ultimately leaves the universe in a highly ordered state once again, ready to contract into another singularity and set off the next Big Bang.

As alternative theories go, it's not without its merits, but there's no evidence to support it...until now. He says he's found evidence for his ideas in the cosmic microwave background, the microwave radiation that permeates the universe and was thought to have formed 300,000 years after the Big Bang, providing a record of the universe at that far distant time. Penrose and his colleague Vahe Gurzadyan have discovered clear concentric circles within the data, which suggests regions of the radiation have much smaller temperature ranges than elsewhere.

So what does that mean? Penrose believes these circles are windows into the previous universe, spherical ripples left behind by the gravitational effects of colliding black holes in the previous universe. He also says these circles don't work well at all in the current inflationary model, which holds all temperature variations in the CMB should be truly random.

Here's where the fun begins. If the circles are really there and are really doing what Penrose says they're doing, then he's managed to overthrow the standard inflationary model. But there's a long way to go between where we are now and that point, assuming it ever happens.

The inflationary model has become the consensus for a good reason - it's the best explanation we've got for the universe we have now - and so cosmologists will examine any results that appear to disprove it very critically. There are also a couple key assumptions in Penrose's theory, particularly that all particles will lose their mass towards the end of the universe. Right now, we don't know whether that will actually happen - in particular, there's no proof that electrons ever decay.

http://io9.com/5694701/does-cosmic-background-radiation-reveal-the-universe-before-the-big-bangThe current cosmological census is that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago with... more

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Scientists claim breakthrough in antimatter hunt

Scientists claimed a breakthrough Thursday in solving one of the biggest riddles of... more

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Scientists Capture Antimatter Atoms in Particle Breakthrough!

Scientists capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough By Thair Shaikh, CNN... more

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I Need a Girl - Taeyang ft. G-Dragon.

Taeyang's new single, featuring G-Dragon and Sandara Park from 2NE1.

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