Tagged: universe

The Scale of the Universe - Molecular Matters

Michael Edmonds • Apr 18, 2012 •

• Education,
• scale,
• size,
• universe

Go here for an interactive comparison of the different scale of various objects in the universe. Awesome. Read More

Mindboggling - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Feb 27, 2012 •

• astronomy,
• Milky Way,
• Sciblogs,
• space,
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
• universe

Douglas Adams says in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy: “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the … Continue reading → … Read More

TOSP Episode 17: January 16th 2012 - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 16, 2012 •

• Ada Initative,
• adacamp,
• aimee whitcroft,
• Alison Campbell,
• astronomy,
• BioBlog,
• complexity,
• computing,
• cosmology,
• Elf Eldridge,
• events,
• evolution,
• fact,
• formation,
• JPL,
• just so science,
• KiwiMars 2012,
• map,
• molecular machines,
• molecular time travel,
• NASA,
• open culture,
• open source,
• opinion,
• planet,
• planets,
• podcast,
• science communication,
• science education,
• SDS,
• sky,
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• universe

[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Greetings, listeners! This week, aimee was away in Melbourne at the inagural AdaCamp barcamp.  So Elf brought in his good friend Haritina Mogosanu, who works with KiwiSpace and World Space Week, to co-host with him. They talked about the number of planets in our galaxy, [...] … Read More

Finding out about the astronomers who found the universe - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Nov 29, 2011 •

• Edwin Hubble,
• Emanuel Swedenborg,
• expanding universe,
• Georges Lemaître,
• Giordano Bruno,
• Harlow Shapley,
• Hubble,
• philosophy,
• Sciblogs,
• universe,
• Vesto Slipher

Book review: The Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak Price: US$11.53; NZ$20.82 Hardcover: 368 page Publisher: Pantheon (April 7, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0375424296 ASIN: B005IUVQGY This is a great book – just the sort of history of … Continue reading → … Read More

Fine-tuning fallacies - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Nov 10, 2011 •

• anthropic principle,
• big bang,
• book review,
• creationism,
• faith,
• fine tuning,
• Fine-tuned Universe,
• Fred Hoyle,
• god,
• Hydrogen,
• intelligent design,
• Neutron,
• nuclear effcieincy,
• philosophy,
• physics,
• Proton,
• religion,
• Sciblogs,
• universe,
• Victor J. Stenger,
• Victor Stenger

In Fiddling with “fine-tuning” I discussed the way theologians and philosophers of religion have used claims of fine-tuning of the cosmological constant erroneously. That they have taken the fact that the value of the measured cosmological constant is 120 orders of … Continue reading → … Read More

Answer simple question — win an iPad - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Nov 06, 2011 •

• astronomy,
• cosmology,
• iPad,
• New Zealand,
• Sciblogs,
• Tweets,
• Twitter,
• universe,
• University of Otago

The catch – you are limited to 140 characters on Twitter. Oh, yes, also the entry must “explain the origins of the Universe.” Simple – should be plenty of entries for that! I guess the trick is in the syntax, … Continue reading → … Read More

Friday morning video – Powers of Ten - Seeing Data

Chris McDowall • Oct 29, 2010 •

• Animation,
• friday video,
• scale,
• universe

This classic short documentary from 1977 helps viewers conceptualise the relative sizes of things in the Universe. Powers of Ten begins with a one meter wide scene viewed from a distance of one meter. Every ten seconds the camera zooms in or out by a factor of ten. It seamlessly transitions from galactic vistas to scenes rendered at sub-atomic … Read More

A year on, a reprise or two - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 11, 2010 •

• cosmology,
• dark energy,
• physics,
• universe

So, I’ve now officially been at this blogging thing for a little over a year. And, inspired by Darcy’s latest post (feat. the number 191), I thought I’d, well, also have a small celebration. Yay! /dons party hat and places squeaker at the ready Also, when sciblogs syndicated my content, it didn’t pull … Read More