The Epoch of ‘Black Dwarfs’

“The ‘big bounce’ –a cyclical expanding and contracting Universe–is more popular with general audiences than among working cosmologists,” theoretical physicist Matt Caplan told The Daily Galaxy. “The current best models,” he noted, “suggest the universe will expand forever and undergo a ‘heat death’. While people write papers about the possibility of a big bounce (and these get lots of press coverage) they should be regarded as speculation. Until we have a measurement that demonstrates unequivocally that the equation of state of dark energy is changing with time then a big bounce is no more likely than a big rip or big crunch (all of which are inconsistent with the standard model of cosmology).”

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Nobody Knows What Form Dark Matter Might Take to Has a Super Intellect Tweaked Our Universe? (The Galaxy Report)

Today’s stories include Extraterrestrial Life –Is Earth the ‘Standard Model’ for the Universe? to The Radio-Wave Mystery That Changed Astronomy to NASA’s UFO Study Isn’t Really Looking for Space Aliens, and much more.

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Giant Asteroid Impacts Created Earth’s Continents to Michio Kaku: “We’ll Make Contact with Aliens in This Century” (Planet Earth Report Weekend)

This weekend’s stories include Tony Robbins, Sergey Brin Become Robots – The Telepresence Revolution to Spruce Trees have Arrived in the Arctic Tundra a Century Ahead of Schedule, and much more.

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Black Hole Robots to Physics of Nothing Key to Understanding Origin of the Universe (The Galaxy Report Weekend)

This weekend’s stories include Giant Voids of Nothingness may be Flinging the Universe Apart to What can Astrobiology Space Research Teach Us about the Origins of Life?

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The Language That Doesn’t Use “No” to Why Do JWST’s Images Inspire Panic Among Cosmologists? (Planet Earth Report)

Today’s stories include Why Do Humans Die to The Moon Stole Something From Deep Inside Earth Eons Ago and How is it that  a Nuclear Weapon Never Accidentally Detonated? The Planet Earth Report brings you news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and the future of our planet. (more…)

Michio Kaku On the Shift in the UFO Phenomenon to The Psychology of Alien Contact (The Galaxy Report)

Today’s stories include Five Numbers that could Reveal the Secrets of the Universe to We Might Already Speak the Same Language As ET, and much more.

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Io, Jupiter’s Exploding Moon: Unique in the Milky Way?

In February 2001, an eruption from the Surt volcano on the hellscape of Jupiter’s moon, Io, the volcanic epi-center of our solar system, exploded with an estimated output of an almost incomprehensible 78,000 gigawatts. By comparison, the 1992 eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily, was estimated at 12 gigawatts. During its peak, observed by the WM Keck II Telescope on Hawaii, its output almost matched the eruptive power of all of Io’s active volcanoes combined.

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Could Dark Matter Be a Source of Light In the Universe?

All the light in the observable universe provides about as much illumination as a 60-watt bulb seen from 2.5 miles away. And all the energy ever radiated by all the stars that ever existed is still with us, filling the universe with a sort of fog, a sea of photons known as the extragalactic background light.

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