March 11, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. While browsing my excerpt library, I came upon an article in the 1/20/07 issue of NewScientist, in which Glennys Farrar, of New York University, proposed that certain gravitational deviations of movement in the Bullet cluster could … Continue reading
March 9, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. It has recently been reported that the Spitzer survey data reveals an order of magnitude more stellar formation in the Milky Way disc than had previously been seen. These new stars appear as bubble-like images. Yet, … Continue reading
February 25, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. Once upon a time (1987), Alan Dressler and his “seven samurai” colleagues had to fall on their swords, when The Great Attractor, which they were touting, turned out to be a great illusion. The fact that … Continue reading
February 23, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. As reported in the January 7th issue of NewScientist, pgs 31 – 33, a contretemps seems to be brewing about the dark matter candidacy of the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). On the one hand, dark … Continue reading
February 15, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. Here is an update of my second blog, which dealt with the recently discovered, sharply edged, gamma ray “double bubble” that is centered upon the Milky Way’s central bulge. This information had been gleaned from Fermi … Continue reading
February 13, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. I just added this example of different phenomena that act in similar ways, to my book, The Case of the Missing Siblings. A team of physicists, at Rice University, have coaxed the outer electron (cloud) of … Continue reading
February 7, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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Tweet Hi, cosmic mystery buffs. For some time, I have been advocating that the universal matter/antimatter problem can be explained by third family Bose Einstein condensation (BEC). The proposed scenario is: that Big Bang … Continue reading
February 4, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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Tweet Hi, cosmic mystery buffs. It has just been reported, in the January issue of Astronomy, that Douglas Finkbeiner and his students, Meng Su and Tracy Slatyer, all of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, discovered a puzzling characteristic about two … Continue reading
January 20, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetHi, cosmic mystery buffs. I was reading an interesting article in the 1/14/12 issue of New Scientist, p.6, which basically sets forth our current understanding of where the universe came from, and where it is going- i.e., no one really … Continue reading
January 2, 2012
by Arnold Lasky
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TweetThose interested in pursuing the subjects of dark matter, dark energy, the three families of matter, or any other topic mentioned in my book, “The Case of the Missing Siblings”, are invited to engage with me, and with each other, at … Continue reading