MetaFilter posts tagged with cosmology and science

The Size of Things

nola — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:13:16 -0800

Welcome to the Universe - III: The Size of Things . . .we take a breif trip through the Solar System and beyond to see the size of the Universe. A youtube video by AndromedasWake about the scale of the Universe.

Star Stories and the Nobel Prize

ozomatli — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:27:27 -0800

Star Stories explains the life and death of stars using a multimedia approach that incorporates images, animation, video and text. From the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Don't miss out on the other cool games . One of the games has been posted before, but Star Stories is hot off of the presses.

Brains in Space!

saulgoodman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:40:16 -0800

Are We All Really Just Disembodied Brains Floating in Empty Space? Recent mathematical results in the field of cosmology related to the Boltzmann's Brain Problem may point toward a peculiarly arbitrary universe in which, as improbable as it sounds, it's more likely than not. Meanwhile, these findings may also suggest confirmation of Nietzsche's theory of "Eternal Recurrence," despite what this guy might think.

There's a hole in the Universe, dear Martha, dear Martha

scalefree — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:16:50 -0800

Astronomers find a giant hole a billion light years across & located 8 billion light years away from us. They believe it could be evidence of another Universe at the edge of ours.

Newtonian dynamics unmodified

kliuless — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:46:09 -0800

Good evidence that dark matter is for real.

maybe the Sarumpaet Rules will be worked out afterall

kliuless — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:25:12 -0800

Before the Big Bang - way, way out of my depth, but I thought this comment was intriguing: "The paper as published, along with a longer follow up paper, looks to my untrained eye a nearly complete quantum gravitation theory, which is an exciting prospect in itself. However, as with all physical theories, we will await for experimental support before popping the cork." Here's some more on loop quantum gravity, spin networks, the big bang and ekpyrosis.

The truth behind the first cheesy special effects

Gyan — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:57:05 -0800

Misconceptions about the Big Bang