Information About the Nature of the Universe
This section contains links to the material that I have come across:
Quantum Physics
Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron ‘has found Higgs boson’, say rumours
Proton Smaller Than Thought—May Rewrite Laws of Physics
The Universe
Mystery Space Object May Be Ejected Black Hole
The Great Attractor, Dark Matter & Dark Energy
What is the “Great Attractor” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
A possible explanation of the nature of the universe – http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/01/the-first-trillionth-of-a-second-will-it-yield-the-secrets-of-the-dark-side-of-the-universe.html
What would it be like to fall into a black hole? This site explains what would happen in layman’s terms: Falling Into A Black Hole
Hubble Space Telescope
It is fascinating to think that the Hubble telescope has photographed over 8,000 galaxies (like our Milky Way) in an area of the night sky no bigger than a grain of sand held at arms length.
Another team working with Hubble have been able to use the brightness of light emitted from certain stars to date the “big bang”, which is widely though to constitute the point in time when the universe was created, as having ocurred 13.7 billion years ago!
The Nature of Time
If a linear view of time is assumed, this begs the question, what happened immediately before the “big bang”?
This is one idea: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1270726.stm
The Non Linear Nature of Time
The widely held assumption about time is that it moves progressively from point A to B, then to C and so forth. This linear experience of the passage of time always gives rise to the question – “what came before point A?”. Our comprehension is that there must have been something before point A.
When the argument is put forward that point A was an event, such as the big bang, we then have to ask – “what came before the big bang” – what caused it? Our current understanding of the universe does not allow something to manifest without cause or any precident.
The linear explanation of time (A to B to C etc.) cannot provide a comprehensive description of time as there must always be a precident to whatever start point we choose. The logic that debunks this linear conception is not dissimilar to asking “where is the start point on a circle or a sphere?”.
A comprehensive explanation of the nature of time must be non-linear and is currently beyond our comprehension. Perhaps our linear experience of time is just a facet of how we sense things?
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