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Lawrence M Krauss Yes David Gelernter Perhaps Paul Davies No Peter William Atkins Indeed Nancey Murphy Yes Owen Gingerich Very Likely Bruno Guiderdoni No Christian de Duve 10 Yes John F Haught 12 Not Sure Neil deGrasse Tyson 13 Certainly Jane Go. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE UNLIKELY LADS? A HOAXING METAMORPHOSISDavid Harley, Randy AbramsESET Research, 610 West Ash Street, Suite 1900, Email {dharley, rabrams}@eset.comvirus hoaxes, as exempli Lecture . 10; . May . 14 2013. Previously… on astro-2. If the universe is homogenous and isotropic and correctly described by General Relativity:. At any given time the universe is a 3D space. It could be open/close/flat. w. here does it end?. Chris North. Cardiff University. The speed of light. c = 299,792,458 m/s. . or 670,616,629 miles per hour. . or 2 million . million. furlongs per fortnight. or ~300,000 km/s. The Milky Way Galaxy. When you look into the hazy band of light across the sky, you are actually looking at our galaxy from the inside. While an awesome sight, you can only truly begin to see it if you get away from city lights on a moonless night. . The Universe is commonly defined as the totality of existence, including planets, stars, galaxies, the contents of intergalactic space, the smallest subatomic particles, and all matter and energy. . Similar . SIZE and Scale. Of The. Universe. What is your Cosmic Address?. Size and Scale of the Universe. # Street. City. State. Country. Continent. Hemisphere. . Planet. Orbit. Star?. …?. …. …. …. …. Are . we. . alone in the Universe?. The Carina Nebula. (8000 light years. from Earth). “When . I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in . place” (Psalm 8:3). Flat Earth Theory. Flat Earth Theory. Date: Ancient Times. Scientists: Babylonians, Egyptians. Theory Description: The world is a flat disk, not a sphere. Evidence: None. As early as the 4. th. century BC, scientists and philosophers, such as Aristotle, realized that the Earth was a sphere. It was apparently much flatter in the past:. Inflation!. For definiteness, pick . g. eff. =200 and . k. B. T. = 3. . 10. 15. . GeV. You should memorize this value to about 54 digits or so. How did it happen to be so close to 1?. Lecture . 11; . May . 21 2013. Previously… on astro-2. In an expanding universe the relationship between redshift and distance depends on the cosmological parameters (i.e. the geometry and expansion of the universe). Why?. Hubble Expansion and the Big Bang . The fact that more distant galaxies. have higher . redshifts. . indicates that the universe is expanding. This implies that the universe was born in a huge explosion, or . The universe is the sum of all energy, matter, space and time.. But there. ’. s a difference between the universe we see (the observable universe) . and the universe as it really exists.. This gets complicated….. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. . –Kurt Vonnegut. Cosmology. Cosmology is the study of the nature of the universe, how the universe began and how it will end, if it does. There is religious cosmology, and scientific cosmology. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that\'s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you\'re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind\'s chance to unlock the universe\'s secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.Massimino\'s childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection. Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescope - which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission - Massimino has written an ode to never giving up and the power of teamwork to make anything possible. Spaceman invites us into a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure, revealing just what having the right stuff really means.