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Our very speculative dark energy curve

Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Posted in Astronomy, Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Okay kids, before we get started we need to visualize that a black hole is not a hole ...  its a black sphere, and a wormhole is not a hole ... its the event horizon sphere. So lets start with our imaginary ...

A closed system & random decay?

Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Picking up from where we left off on our last blog , we said we would test our nested universe against The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. But 1st lets settle  on whether our system is closed, flat or open. Nikodem Powlawski says; ...

Our nested universes, now the fun begins

Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Okay kids, grandpa has been playing with my Nested Universes concept on and off for over 10 years and we have been writing blogs to you kids for 4 years about the concept off and on. So far, one of our ground ...

M82 mystery object-nested universes cross talk?

Thursday, August 19th, 2010 Posted in Astronomy, Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Well kids, Nikodem Powlawski's Physics Letter B has created a huge interest in our little Nested Universes project we have been fooling around with for years. I told you at the beginning, that the nested universes concept would be a ...

nested Russian dolls & our nested universes

Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Back over a dozen years ago, as I neared retirement, I thought exploring the cosmos and human thought would be great hobbies. Lacking a mathematician's credentials and armed with just curiosity & imagination ... my 1st concept was ... "our universe could very well ...

Nested Universes project summarized

Friday, July 23rd, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Okay grand kids, here is our 4 year old Nested Universes Concept summarized in a bullet format: Time & space are the only natural entities that are absolutely endless. If space & time are endless, it opens the door to the possibility that ...

A Black Hole Recycle in the Perseus Cluster

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

[caption id="attachment_2457" align="alignnone" width="288" caption="Black hole blow back"][/caption] Above is a black hole cycle described in an article in the Scientific American in March of 2007  by Tucker, Tananbaum and Fabian. It is a  black hole cycle that we would like to factor into our Nested ...

What can we observe?

Monday, May 17th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

"I recall being stumped as a child on the question of the extent of the universe. It seemed absurd that the universe be infinite, how could it go on and on forever? It also seemed absurd that it be finite, ...

Our observation point from habitable zones

Saturday, May 15th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Let's start our Nested Universes update from our observation place in the cosmos. In our solar system we are in a habitable zone that lies between Venus and Mars.  In our Milky Way we are also live in a narrow habitable zone with ...

Welcome to the Club Nikodem Poplawski!

Friday, May 14th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Well kids, we finally have a mathematician independently working on our Nested Universes concept. In the Physics Letter B journal Vol. 687 pp. 110-113 in an article called "Radial Motion into an Einstein-Rosen Bridge" Nikodem Poplawski suggests, "our own universe may ...

Updating our Nested Universes Concept

Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

As grandpa has pointed out to you grandchildren in the past ... I have more questions than answers. All the blogs I have written to you grandchildren are about  taking you with me on a journey  into areas of science still ...

Particle Cross Talk?

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Well kids it's time to get back to stuff on the cosmos. One interesting aspect of our Nested Universes Concept is the potential exchange of particles between us and a black hole. The Neutrino particles can now be detected giving ...

What happened before the big bang?

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

"What happened before the big bang?" is the question most asked by the general public. In our concept kids, we know what happened before the big bang. Our universe is in a black hole and we have a parent universe. ...

Cosmology part 2

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

What does "An idea a day" and "The family librarian" blogs have to do with cosmology grandpa? Actually I wanted to find a way to remind you of your  youthful brains that soak up new ideas easily. The "family librarian" was a thought of ...

Topic #1: Cosmology part 1

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Grandpa will try not to repeat previous blogs written in the cosmology category of this blog, of which there are 61 posted blogs. I want to pick up where we left off  about six months ago. I do not want to repeat ...

Becoming Human

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »

Okay kids, if you recognized your grandfather as Tom Longford in the previous five very short chapter blogs ... you were right. And I morphed you 11 grandchildren into 10-year-old 5th graders in the stories. On November 3rd PBS NOVA is ...

Black Stars

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

No, not Oprah or Tiger kids ... Black stars of the universe . In our Nested Universes concept we have preferred referring to black holes as black spheres ... not holes. The black hole event horizon being the black sphere. In our ...

Rubbing Elbows with Cosmology Celebrities

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Well, not exactly kids. Discover Magazine covered a 3 day conference at Oxford UK on Philosophy and Cosmology, with some of the most famous cosmologist as guest speakers. I sent comments in on the 2nd & 3rd day. With the high ability level ...

A Universe above everyone’s shoulders

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, cosmology | No Comments »

Things that appear to be science, but cannot be proven,  comes under the heading of science fiction. Your grandfather is not into science fiction ... but this blog sort of comes under that category. Maybe if I call this blog a metaphor ... I'll ...

Nested Universes [pg. 6 of 6]

Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »

Our universe, that eventually expands into a our parent universe, is more aesthetically pleasing than our universe expanding forever ... don't you agree? For the foreseeable future, we don't have to ponder what is "outside"  our 3 universe concept connected by ...