They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.
But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.
Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.
I had a neighbor who had a bumper sticker on his pickup that read, "I didn't go to work today because the voices told me to stay home and clean the guns."
Sorry, mea culpa, I shoulda clarified. At the time, here in the UK, the yarn was that it jumped from monkeys to humans in Africa, through bestiality. The idea being that it was a homosexual...
Basically yes, butchered chimps, aka "bush meat," transmitted SIV -- simian immunodeficiency virus -- to humans where it mutated into HiV. On the evidence HiV had spread widely in Central...
How does intelligent design explain schizophrenia, cancer, autism, and a hundred other things humans are afflicted by? Why do we get sick at all if we are intelligently designed? The whole business...
Speaking of AI, this OP just landed into my inbox, which I thought you might find interesting on an ethical basis:- AI for the defense? Can technology recreate the dead to speak...
As I say, I don't mind the harping, and if it is constructive and helps others, have at it. As you well know, am not without a bit of harping myself, to the annoyance of others. What peeves me...
Paul may have been insane, he may have suffered from TLE, but there is also the argument that he was off his head on hallucinogen's. Here is a paper looking at the subject:-...
As someone who is currently cutting down on alcohol consumption, reasonable people engage in risky behaviors all of the time because they're enjoyable, exciting, and/or rewarding for other reasons....
A slice of monkey arse is considered a delicacy in many parts. And apparently that includes the US, where folk have risked big fines or imprisonment for importing it. A 2007 report by The New...
It may also help to learn that Christianity isn't the only toxic collection of ideas. To the annoyance of many on this group, I constantly harp on other common behaviors that rack...
You seem to assume that machines will become smarter than 10 billion people and simultaneously be as dumb as machines that capitalists could traditionally own and...
Right, but if ten billion people aren't needed for anything, why would the machines agree to be owned by that one man? What does he have to offer the machines that ten billion people do not...
But here is the thing with my question: In all those other contexts (serfdom, police, etc.,) people have the possibility of doing something to earn their food. The serfs are needed by the lord. He...
Looking at the long term, and I mean looooonng term, over centuries, I have no real idea of what the future of man might be like or whether there will be a future at all....
You're making a projection: currently the rich are getting richer, while the middle class stagnates or goes backward. What happens if this trend continues all the way to its logical...
Under the terms and ideology of Capitalism, theoretically one man can own every machine, and that one man or woman, or small group, will not need anyone to work for them. Then what?...
Looking at the long term, and I mean looooonng term, over centuries, I have no real idea of what the future of man might be like or whether there will be a future at all. But for the near to medium...