First Principles “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” – Blaise Pascal Cosmology is a…

1.First Principles “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” – Blaise Pascal Cosmology is…

Slide 1 The Big Bang: Fact or Fiction? Einstein’s steady-state theory An abandoned model of the universe Cormac O’Raifeartaigh, Brendan McCann (WIT) Werner Nahm (DIAS)…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Defining the Universe A simple definition for the universe is: “all that is”. The universe is the sum of all energy, matter, space and time. But there’s…

Last week  Completed discussion of methods of measuring distances Stellar masses using Kepler’s 3rd Law This is confined to measurements of binary systems relatively…

The Standard Model of Cosmology Chad A. Middleton, Ph.D. Mesa State College October 11, 2007 “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”…

The Big Bang The Big Bang: Fact or Fiction? Einstein’s steady-state theory An abandoned model of the universe Cormac O’Raifeartaigh, Brendan McCann (WIT) Werner Nahm…