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Category: Cosmology
Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
CATEGORY: CosmologyScience and Technology | SOURCE: Scientific American | Comments
Slightly interesting article about thermodynamics and self-organising systems.
I noticed that nowhere in this article do they say: "The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a bitch!". Which it is.
These scientist types, I mean, really.
We Are Meant to Be Here - Interview with Paul Davies
CATEGORY: Cosmology | SOURCE: Salon | Comments
Fascinating and mind bending interview from last year with Paul Davies about the big bang, the anthropic principle and the nature of the cosmos.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
CATEGORY: CosmologyThe Beautiful Cosmos | SOURCE: NASA | Comments
And the archive:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Origins
CATEGORY: CosmologyThe Beautiful Cosmos | SOURCE: PBS | Comments
NOVA presents an amazing online smorgasboard about life in the universe (and everything).
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo
CATEGORY: CosmologyThe Beautiful Cosmos | SOURCE: spacetelescope.org | Comments
In 2003 and 2004, astronomers aimed the Hubble Space Telescope into a patch of apparently empty space, located in the constellation of Fornax, just below the constellation of Orion the hunter. The image spans just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon, but reveals an estimated 10,000 galaxies. These were the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages", the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars lit up the cold, dark Universe.
See also UDF Skywalker v1.0