Universe

All my 2012 essays are here: www.2012essays.com. Since both the Maya calendar and metaphorical stories are based on the underlying astronomy, it can be very helpful to understand this astronomy. This is fun and easy to do as long as we take it a little bit at a time. For me personally, the more I dug into this material, the more mind-blowing it all became! Perhaps you will have a similar experience. – Thomas Razzeto

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Lecture 3 of Leonard Susskind’s Modern Physics concentrating on Cosmology. Recorded January 26, 2009 at Stanford University.

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fifth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Stanford University:

http://www.stanford.edu

Stanford Continuing Studies:

http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

About Leonard Susskind:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory that the Earth is growing. This collides with the Pangea theory. Watch it, you will be amazed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_jRcZx6LCA

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Science@ESA Vodcast (Episode 2): Planck – Looking Back To The Dawn Of Time (Part 1): Big Bang Cosmology.

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In the Science@ESA series Rebecca Barnes will take you on a journey of discovery into the rapidly evolving field of space astronomy and planetary exploration.

In this second episode Rebecca takes a close look at Planck – a European Space Agency mission built to detect radiation from the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This mission will help find answers to some of the most important questions in modern science.

• http://astronomy2009.esa.int
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The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the Universe that is supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific evidence and observation.

As used by cosmologists, the term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (currently estimated to have been approximately 13.7 billion years ago), and continues to expand to this day.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

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Planck was selected as the third Medium-Sized Mission (M3) of ESA’s Horizon 2000 Scientific Programme, and is today part of its Cosmic Vision Programme. It is designed to image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation Field over the whole sky, with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution.

Planck will provide a major source of information relevant to several cosmological and astrophysical issues, such as testing theories of the early universe and the origin of cosmic structure.

Planck was launched on 14 May 2009 together with the Herschel satellite. After launch, Planck and Herschel separated and are now proceeding to different orbits around the second Lagrangian point of the Earth-Sun System.

• http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/index.html
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Join UCSD Physicist Kim Griest as he takes you on an exploration of two of the major unsolved questions in the physical sciences: What might be the fate of the universe and what is the nature of the dark matter which ultimately decides this fate? Series: “UCSD Millennium Lectures” [2/2000] [Science] [Show ID: 4661]

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All my 2012 essays are here:

http://www.infinitelymystical.com/2012-essays.html

Since both the Maya calendar and metaphorical stories are based on the underlying astronomy, it can be very helpful to understand this astronomy. This is fun and easy to do as long as we take it a little bit at a time. It won’t take us very long to lay out all the information yet you may find yourself pondering this subject more deeply for quite awhile. For me personally, the more I dug into this material, the more mind-blowing it all became. Perhaps you will have a similar experience.

- Thomas Razzeto

http://www.infinitelymystical.com

Mystical spirituality for personal and world peace

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Lecture 2 of Leonard Susskind’s Modern Physics concentrating on Cosmology. Recorded January 19, 2009 at Stanford University.

This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fifth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Stanford University:

http://www.stanford.edu

Stanford Continuing Studies:

http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

About Leonard Susskind:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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Astronomers have a massive breakthrough as they discover a weird and very bright extraordinary object in the far reaches of our solar system. Is it a planet? Is it a block of ice? Whatever it is, it’s bigger than Pluto. Fascinating science video from BBC Horizon show ‘Bye Bye Planet Pluto.’

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READ THIS FIRST! : The Size Of Planets and Stars to Scale (see NOTE)
Name of planets as shown:
Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn
Name of Stars as shown:
Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei
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Name of Song: Stakka & K Tee – Rubber Bullet
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc
Author: jaxxrr
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jaxxrr
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NOTE: This video is a edited version of “Energy vs Information” made by jaxxrr (to which all credit goes to), I was very impressed by the production value both the video and music.

Seeing that it received few hits, which may be due to the title and tags. In order for more people to see and enjoy this video I mirrored the edited version, so people won’t get too side tracked on the political message. (Although I’m against wars and big oil as well)

Please see the original version if you like here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc

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This video was made BEFORE “VY Canis Majoris” was listed as the largest known star, When this video was made 2006 by it’s author JAXXrr, the star “VV Cephei A” was listed as the largest known star.

For a list of current largest “known” stars see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars
Keep in mind while watching this video that the “largest known stars” are all found in our own galaxy (The Milky Way). We know of only of a very few of the estimated 200-300 Billion stars that make up our galaxy, which is just ONE of at least 300-500 billion galaxies in the visible Universe.
To learn more about the Universe see this site; it will blow your mind!…

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html

Just keep zooming out……..

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DVD: http://hilaroad.com/video/ This short astronomy video introduces the constellation Orion and M42, the Orion Nebula. Interesting stars in and around the constellation … all » include Betelgeuse, Rigel and Sirius. Light year as a unit of distance is mentioned. Intended to support astronomy curriculum, grades 4 to 9. http://hilaroad.com/video/ Visit http://hilaroad.com/camp/projects.html for related projects including a starfinder.

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