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The Universe
How do Universes Come Into Being?
by David Sims A CHRISTIAN made a video that he posted on YouTube, in order to challenge atheists with the question “Where did the universe come from?” To the video’s creator: You messed up right away. Atheists don’t believe in gods. When you tacked on “higher power,”…
Combining the Copernican and Anthropic Principles
by David Sims THE Copernican principle, generalized, is that the place we occupy in our universe is nothing special. We are not, for example, at the center of the universe. We are, instead, in the boonies of a typical spiral galaxy at the edge of the Virgo galaxy cluster near the fringe of a supercluster…
On Meditation: An Introduction
1 ONE THING I’ve learned over the last ten years, just from the practice of meditation alone, is that meditation is as natural and as much of a requirement to our species as exercise. Sure, we can live without it, but it’s not healthy or natural to not do it. So you’ll find that once you…
Understanding the Expansion and Age of the Universe
by David Sims YOU GET THE right number for the age of the universe if the Hubble constant is 71 km/sec/Mpc. If that’s the case, then whatever we see in the universe that is observed to have a distance greater than 7.81054e+9 light years has moved, in the time that the light was enroute to us, to a point…
Finding the Truth versus Declaring the Truth
by David Sims THE QUESTION was asked: “The vacuum state contains fleeting electromagnetic waves and particles that pop into and out of existence. Atheists, something from nothing? Better than magic? Isn’t a consciousness (God) who created the universe is an even better explanation…
What We Are
by David Sims THIS contiguous region of spacetime, the universe, appeared from vacuum energy about 13.7 billion years ago. The solar nebula condensed into a central star and a planetary system about 5 billion years ago. Earth’s Life includes cellular organisms, viruses, and viroids. Biogenesis…
Closest Potentially Habitable Planet to our Solar System Found
IN A DISCOVERY that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a new study. It is the closest exoplanet to us in the universe. (ILLUSTRATION: This artist’s impression…
Gods are Superfluous to the Creation of Universes
by David Sims OUR UNIVERSE is one of many. Indeed, there’s probably an infinity of universes, each of which (or most of which) are completely isolated from all of the others. I can’t prove that that’s so. But it seems, to me, to be the explanation that is most likely, arising naturally…
Discovering the ‘Final Frontier’ of our Universe
As we head for a Third World America and Europe, how much longer will scientific advances continue? OVER THE last week, new images have granted us exquisite views of the final frontier that is our old, vast and mysterious universe. (ILLUSTRATION: Gravitational lensing and space warping are visible…
CERN Scientists ‘Break the Speed of Light’
UPDATED: Scientists Did Not “Break the Speed of Light” Two possible explanations are that 1) neutrinos may fall under the general rubric of the very small obeying a different set of rules than the rest of reality because of the granular nature of spacetime at ultra-small dimensions; …
