Tag Archives: Physics

Stephen Hawking seeks help to make voice heard

All of you electronic/computer geeks out there, take note… This job may be especially interesting to those of you who enjoy science, particularly physics or astronomy. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press By RAPHAEL G. SATTER | AP – Thu, … Continue reading

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Long-Sought ‘God Particle’ Cornered, Scientists Say

This is fascinating! Hopefully within the next several years physicists will make the necessary discoveries to offer a “theory of everything” which describes, beyond the shadow of a doubt, how the universe came into being. On the other hand, for … Continue reading

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Is the New Physics Here? Atom Smashers Get an Antimatter Surprise

Science is awesome! Hopefully within the next decade or so physicists will be able to determine, with scientific proof and absolute evidence, the actual events which gave birth to the universe. That is, after all, life’s biggest question. TGO Refer … Continue reading

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Studies of universe’s expansion win physics Nobel

For those of you who stumbled upon this article but still believe that God created the universe in 6 days and that it is only a few thousand years old, you may leave the page now. For those of you … Continue reading

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Victor J. Stenger: “Love and Matter”

More than once I have been called upon to explain love. I must say the challenge puts me out a bit. Why should I, a physicist, have to explain love when nobody else has done so? Poets are simply asked … Continue reading

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Victor J. Stenger: “Secularism – Will it Survive?”

Will secularism survive? Yes, if we can keep science afloat. Secularism should survive for the simple reason that there is no need for God. God is a persistent memory from the childhood of humanity – that invisible friend who once … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins: “The Emptiness of Theology”

Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 18, Number 2. A dismally unctuous editorial in the British newspaper the Independent recently asked for a reconciliation between science and “theology.” It remarked that “People want to know as much as possible about their origins.” … Continue reading

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Evidence of Big Bang May Disappear in 1 Trillion Years

While this article is entertaining, informative and interesting, I also found it to be somewhat silly. First of all, there isn’t one individual alive today who would honestly care what scientists could or could not determine a trillion years from … Continue reading

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For Fully Mature Black Holes, Time Stands Still

Super cool stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer Space.com clara Moskowitz, Space.com Senior Writer space.com Thu Jan 27, 3:30 pm ET The end of a black hole’s evolution may be a mind-bending kind of space-time independent of … Continue reading

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CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough

This is fascinating! There is no doubt that the experiments being conducted at CERN will provide never-before imagined information regarding the formation of the universe and other currently unknown phenomena. As an alternative, for you religious folks out there, you … Continue reading

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God did not create the universe, says Hawking

This article incorrectly implies, through the misunderstanding of a quote in one of Stephen Hawking’s previous books, that he believed in God. This is false. The statement in the book: “If we discover a complete theory, it would be the … Continue reading

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Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

This is so interesting… Hopefully these scientists will in fact discover dark matter, as it will lead to other discoveries and bring us closer to what may one day be a “theory of everything,” maybe even in the next decade … Continue reading

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