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In 1929 Edwin Powell Hubble, with the collaboration of Milton Humason, formulated the Redshift Distance Law of galaxies, nowadays termed simply Hubble's Law. While Edwin Hubble has been incorrectly credited with the discovery of the redshift in distant galaxies (the principles underlying an expanding universe were well understood years earlier by such renowned cosmologists as James Keeler, Vesto Slipher and William Campbell), this theory by Hubble and Humason led to a much wider acceptance for the redshift concept. The law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies, the greater their relative speed of separation. (more...)

Carbon Dioxide Sequestration...

The least expensive cure for the potential problems caused by global warming is to 'bury' the carbon dioxide and sulphur fumes created by the burning of fossil fuels. If these green-house gasses are pumped back into the earth -- into deep limestone strata -- they will be entombed in these 'sinks' for thousands of years by the same geophysical principles that have locked-in our natural gas and... (more...)

The Global Warming Debate...

In the past 100 years scientists have debated back and forth as to whether the world was cooling or warming. During the 1930's there was a pronounced warming trend which caused great concern. Then, during the 1960's and 1970's there was a pronounced cooling trend. The April 28, 1975 issue of Newsweek predicted the coming of another ice age, and that we were just six degrees away from a "drastic decline in food production... (more...)

Global Warming Problems...

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: While the vast majority of general interest in regards to the effects of global warming has been focused on the vagaries of weather and unsettled seasons of change; more ominous, though unfelt, changes are being ignored. The acidification of the oceans can have a much greater effect on not only the biodiversity of the seas but also to our ability to harvest their bounty to feed a hungry world... (more...)

Global Warming Benefits...

WARMER WINTERS ARE HEALTHIER: From a purely evolutionary point of view, warm periods have always benefited plants and animals. The world has thrived during the warming periods between the ice ages. Cold periods have always caused serious survival problems for all organisms including mankind. Scientific studies show that there will be 40,000 fewer deaths each year in the U.S. In Britain alone, scientists estimate... (more...)

Global Warming Solutions...

GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS MUST BE PROFITABLE: The majority of the present day Gore-type solutions are either ineffective, costly or extremely painful: Therefore they will never be adopted by the general populous and their governments -- until it is too late. If the proposed solutions would create both profits and benefits across the board then their acceptance by all would be much more likely. The process of finding the best... (more...)

String Theory: Death of Physics...

At the recent 23rd Solvay Conference in Physics held in Brussels, Belgium, Nobel prize winner David Gross stated: "We don't know what we are talking about!" He then went on to say, "Many of us believed that string theory was a very dramatic break with our previous notions of quantum theory. But now we learn that string theory, well, is not that much of a break." And that physics is in "a period of utter confusion." (more...)

Where Aristotle, Galileo and NASA went wrong...

Using intuitive reasoning, Aristotle theorized that heavy objects accelerate faster than lighter ones, in direct proportion to the weight of the objects.
Using counterintuitive reasoning, Galileo disagreed with Aristotle's concept: In an effort to disprove Aristotle's theory, Galileo dropped weights of varying masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing, through observation, that their acceleration (more...)

Black Holes: Classifications ...

Deep-Core Black Holes have a mass of over 3 billion suns. These black holes have so much mass that the fabric of space can no longer support them. Once these black holes begin to sink deep toward the center of the universe, they begin stretching and pulling at the fabric of space behind them; and with that their accretion ring, the whole of their galaxy and the trailing dark matter. These black holes, combined with (more...)

BIG BANG = Creationists' Theory of Cosmic Evolution...

The term "Big Bang" was sarcastically coined by the late Sir Fred Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, and who was acknowledged to have been one of the most creative scientists of the 20th century. Hoyle was a proponent of the history of the universe known as the Steady-State in which hydrogen atoms gradually coalesced into gas clouds, which (more...)

The Shape of the Universe...

“Is the earth round or flat?” That was the profound question put forth by the science community versus the neo-science cults centuries ago… Once again, in this new millennium, a similar question has arisen from the science community versus the string-theory cults: “Is the universe round or flat?” Bolstering this flat universe string-theology are some of the world’s greatest mathematicians, using page after page of their greatest formulations to prove that the universe is an infinite rectangular membrane or (more...)

France builds Doomsday Machine...

In the eastern regions of France, near Lyon, flanked by virgin pine forests, streams, lakes and fir clad mountain ridges, bordering on Switzerland, lays the CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) facility which houses over 6,300 scientists working (more...)

CERN France Doomsday Countdown

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Gravity Probe B - The # 2 Cosmic Money Pit...

The $700 million experiment has had a long and checkered history stretching back over 45 years. It was touted as one of the most unique experiments ever attempted in the history of science (more...)

LIGO and LISA – The # 1 Cosmic Money Pit...

Although Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1918 in his general theory of relativity, to date no one has ever actually detected or measured a gravitational wave. (more...)