From Universe to Multiverse

This explaination of a multiverse in plain language is part of a process of changing the way humanity thinks about reality. It is as earthshaking as the Copernican Revolution. What if multiverses exist? What does it mean? How long will it take for a society filled with forty per cent of its members thinking existence is less than ten thousand years old.

This video has at least two ideas that are new to me. White holes? White holes are the opposite of black holes. They are spots where massive amounts of material are spewed out from a single location...a lot like the singularity that produced the big bang. This Time Article written in the 1970's shows just how far behind I could be.

The second idea is more of a reminder. Dark matter is not made up of atoms. Dark matter is around twenty per cent of the matter in the universe so what we learned in school about all matter being composed of atoms is not true. At least some dark matter is non-baryonic. This leaves me with some very large and difficult areas of farther study.

General Custer in the American Civil War

I will be presenting an hour and a half talk on Custer in the Civil War to the Saginaw Civil War Round Table on Oct. 6.  That will be the first public discussion of this very interesting man who so polorized the opinions of those around him. 

His men did not care for him generally.  They thought he drove the men and horses too hard.  They also said he didn't accept the opinions of other officers.  He did accomplish many great feats in the Civil War though so much is to be said in his favor.

Missing Neutrinos Solved

Link to Article

Now scientists at Italy's National Institute for Nuclear Physics have for the first time observed -- with 98 percent certainty -- what they change into during a process called neutrino oscillation: another type of particle known as tau.

Under the prevailing Standard Model, neutrinos cannot have mass. But the new experiments prove that they do.

One implication is the existence of other, as yet unobserved types of neutrinos that could help clarify the nature of Dark Matter, which is believed to make up about 25 percent of the universe.

    

This is another example of the strange things which happen as things become infinitely small or large.

Hitchens and Evil

Hitchens on the Axis of Evil

The smell of death.  The necessity of Evil.  1984 are all here but here with a description that says "tell me no more spirit".  It is too much and yet it all took place.  Hitchen's examples bring the listener too close.