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Is the Big Bang in trouble? The answer, unsurprisingly, is no — or, at least it’s extremely unlikely. However, there has been a fair amount of dubious reporting and chatter on social media of late making that dramatic claim. Because of the importance of the question, it’s important to understand what’s true and what’s not. A primer on the JWST On Christmas Day 2021, astronomers held their breath as an Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted…
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If you’re a non-believer in the supernatural, then have you ever considered what it would take to convince you that ghosts really exist? This is also something you might have thought about if you’re already a believer too, how can you convince a skeptic? Stories of ghosts have existed in every culture going back thousands of years, a recent survey conducted in the US revealed that 60% of Americans believe they have seen a ghost,…
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This is quite an ‘out there’ story, make of it what you will.. Artist David Higgins says that he lost his virginity to a busty female alien named Crescent when he was 17 years old. In a new film which has recently been released, Higgins shows off his paintings of the female alien which he claims became his lover. He says that the sex with Crescent was painful at first but they eventually became lovers…
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On April 19, 2023, the United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities held an open congressional hearing on Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) or what we all used to know as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and listened to testimony from Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the newly formed Pentagon department for investigating UAP reports, both current and historical, from all branches of the military and presenting…
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Of all the terrible, no good, rotten things that quantum mechanics says, the hardest one to swallow is this: You must give up realism, the belief that something has definite and inherent properties outside of your observing it. There may be a way to salvage realism, but to do so you must sacrifice locality, the idea that things influence one another by direct interaction and the basis for causality. This state of affairs appears forced…