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Space & Cosmology

Our universe at home within a larger universe? So suggests physicist's wormhole research

(Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity) Could our uni­verse be located within the inte­rior of a worm­hole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? […]

Space & Cosmology

The Known Universe

That ear­lier bit by the Monty Python folks was fun and gives a gen­eral idea of how big ‘every­thing out there is’ and how small a part of it we are.  Here is another view based on the lat­est infor­ma­tion avail­able.  Put together by the Amer­i­can Museum of Nat­ural His­tory, I find it very […]

Space & Cosmology

Keeping A Humble Perspective

Lately I’ve become increas­ingly inter­ested in cos­mol­ogy.  Ques­tions about the uni­verse, astron­omy, this and other solar sys­tems, the vast amount of whole galax­ies other than our own Milky Way, and even the the­o­ries of alter­nate universes.

Luck­ily there are a grow­ing num­ber of books and web­sites ded­i­cated to these issues.  But there is also […]