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Well, I finally found some good news regarding my theory of temporal uniformity. It looks like "Niayesh Afshordi, an astrophysicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada" has done all the hard work for me. Although I relate time as being a result of ordinary motion, the model proposed seems to be the concept I was trying to model. There are a few discrepancies, but Niayesh Afshordi is refining his model. Of course, this doesn't give credence to my theory, but it's finally nice to have someone professionally working on it However, it does sadden me a little bit knowing the mathematics has been structured beyond what I have don…

So Australia goes to the polls tomorrow to elect a new federal government. The opposition released their budget plans 48 hours before the election including this gem: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/abbott-vows-to-cut-futile-research/story-fni0cx12-1226710934260 A play straight out of the far right GOP playbook: http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/04/u.s.-lawmaker-proposes-new-criteria-choosing-nsf-grants As a natural born Australian working as a scientist overseas, this is horrifying. Firstly, the ARC has a rigorous peer review system which awards less than 25% of grants. So what our opposition leader is saying is that not only does he not trust the…

This bioengineered bacterium is actually pretty cool, and has many practical applications. The most beneficial, of course, is the ability to fight disease, but we could also see bio-weapons being made with such a technique.

Governments need to enact laws or regulations that will clean up soot emissions in the arctic.

This article emphasises more the succusses of MOND gravity rather than the failures of dark matter to pridict observed reality concerning stellar movements in dwarf gallaxies. The bigger news, however, may be the lack of predictive power concerning the dark matter hypothesis. I think such successes and failures may imply that the dark matter hypothesis is more a retrodictive system than a predictive one, while at least in these cases the MOND hypothesis made accurate predictions. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/cwru-mpd082813.php

If you are younger than 28, you have not known a normal global July temperature.

A possible new type of dark matter, sounds more than a bit like Mirror Matter to me. http://www.space.com/21508-dark-matter-atoms-disks.html?cmpid=514630 Mirror Matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_matter I've communicated several times with a leading proponent of Mirror Matter, Robert Foot, about ways to collect Mirror Matter that has fallen to Earth, the ease of detection depends on parameters that have yet to established but it is possible that Mirror Matter space dust falls to earth and could be found under certain circumstances.

How can anything avoid being eaten for that long? They live in rock, which must help longevity, but they are surrounded by up to 10x viruses per bacteria. They must be immune to the viruses, or have a symbiotic relationship. Will we find similar life on asteroids?

Unusual weather caused flooding in Australia in 2010 and 2011, and the water was soaked up by the dry soil. As a result, the sea level dropped a bit, but since then it has continued to rise by 10 mm (0.4 inches) a year, which is an increase from rising 0.13 inches per year previously.

NASA's Chandra catches our galaxy's giant black hole rejecting food. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/08/29/nasas.chandra.catches.our.galaxys.giant.black.hole.rejecting.food http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5845 We may not understand galactic black holes nearly as well as we think we do. The link above indicates that a galactic black hole may reject up to 90% of the matter within its grasp and instead can reject and/or jettison it away from itself rather than pulling it in. This finding could better explain the reasons and behaviors of the huge sizes of galactic jets and large matter clouds moving away from the galctic center instead of towards it.

how would you make a use of it? http://www.livescience.com/38294-3d-printing-in-china.html

We may all be Martians http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/eaog-wma082613.php This is not the first such proposal concerning "Earth-life" first evolving on Mars. The possibility is very speculative, but interesting none the less. Because the first life on Earth was probably very delicate there may be no remnants or fossils left on Earth. But the first microbial DNA life that we know of was very complicated and it may have taken longer than just a few hundred million years for it to have evolved, as in the present Earth primordial soup hypothesis. If so the Mars-First hypothesis might provide maybe another few hundred million years for the first evo…

Researchers, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco, from the University of Washington have performed the first noinvasive human-to-human brain interface. Here is the video they produced demonstrating their experiment. However, it's hard to tell what is actually going on. Nevertheless, it is still pretty cool!

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I bet CIA saliva is flowing over this juicy tidbit, and I expect a movie will soon appear with a similar, future, hand held technology being used to interrogate terrorists, criminal suspects, or (stealth version) political rivals. Soon someone will report aliens are scanning our brains from orbit, they no longer need to abduct a person for examination.

I hope sales of the Elio account for more fuel saved than used by this jet-pack. Years ago, kids built cars for the Soap Box Derby, which were cars without an engine that ran a downhill race. The race encouraged entrants to engineer a fast car, learn to use tools and quality workmanship. In those days people liked a quiet walk down a friendly lane in the evening, watching the sun set and day become night. They also watched the weather and stars, and some kept a garden. My mother had a cow she liked to milk. She made butter and sold some of it to the neighbors. Mom mixed that milk with sugar, vanilla, and fruit, and I turned a crank on an ice cream maker---it was the b…

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The oldest GRB yet detected, from the time of the dark ages, indicates that:

Does antimatter repulse ordinary matter, that's what Cern's Alpha experiment is trying to find out. If this is the case what would it mean for the theory of gravity under relativity? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355187

See New cosmic background radiation map challenges some foundations of cosmology What brought this report (above) to my attention was another article from a few years back (2007): see Physicists find way to see extra dimensions So the question that occured to me is whether these new results from the Plank satellite will shed any light on the validity of String Theory. I suppose that one could argue that any pattern found in the cosmic backround radiation eminating from near the time of the big bang could be shown to be consistent with at least one six-dimensional geometric model derived from String Theory, and perhaps more than one. Hence any purported v…

Earlier this week Nasa personnel found that the Kepler Telescope was placing itself in safe mode due to a mechanical failure. It is not yet know whether this telescope which has been used to find planets (132 so far) around stars other than our own Sol will be able to be fixed. Star Cluster NGC 6791 from Kepler First Light Image Wired Article where I first read Gruaniads Science Article Official from Nasa

“What surprised scientists when they looked billions of years back in time at more distant galaxies was that the sequence that we know today was much the same as far back as 11 billion years ago.” "The galaxies look remarkably mature, which is not predicted by galaxy formation models to be the case that early on in the history of the Universe." http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-08/16/hubble-galaxy-shapes Of course this is what has always been predicted by most every other cosmological model other than the Big Bang model – that the universe is either much older, or infinite in its age. But it seems that observations continue to surprise BB theorists and…

Large quantities of water ice on Mercury. This is an interesting news article about finding large quantities of water ice at Mercury's poles, estimated to be between 100 billion and a trillion tons of water. This seems like a good place for future colonization like the moon, and easier than Mars. We could develop underground colonies in locations near the water sources at Mercury's poles as well as at the lunar poles. Both polar locations could transfer nearby heat from the sun for solar heating, to supply electrical energy for such a colony, and lighting for underground farming. Solar or nuclear power could be provided for manufacturing and mining. Based upon these …

Great news if this vaccine is shown safe and effective in larger trials.