The universe is full of stars. We are not so sure about habitable planets though. The habitable zone is defined as the distance from the parent star where water flows freely as a liquid. Saying that, over 300 planets have been found so far. Unfortunately from earth we just can’t pick up habitable planets but [...]
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Paradox Or Not?
Paradox is such a great looking word that I couldn’t resist it. I must be a little odd or should I say weird but I just love the X at the end and the way it sounds. Just don’t get me going about paradoxical! So what is a paradox? A paradox is a statement that [...]
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Midweek Podcast, A Robot Uprising? Or A Toaster Defeat?
After talking about the singularity and robots this midweek podcast gives you all the tools to find out what to do when the machines rise up and how to survive. Plus, a man whose implanted circuitry brings him closer to cyborg-dom, and the daughter of Isaac Asimov, the writer who first laid out moral behavior [...]
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The Singularity And How We May Get There
So what is this singularity? Is it the singularity that is found near a black hole? Well, this is a gravitational singularity but it is not the one I’m on about at the moment. The idea for the name of the singularity that I am talking about now actually came from the gravitational singularity as [...]
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Midweek Special- Podcast On Interstellar Travel
Can a rocket reach the nearest star? Ion drives, solar sails and railguns are discussed. Could it be possible to use quantum mechanics to bend space and seem like your travelling faster than light? It got me dreaming although the reality of space kicks in at the end. Would you mind if a project was [...]
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21 Reasons We Have Not Talked To Or Found Alien Civilizations
Look up and you will see lots of dots of light. No, it’s not a load of cars screaming towards the Earth because they missed the stop sign at Mars. It’s stars. There are said to be about 140 billion stars that look like the sun in the Milky Way. There are a lot more stars [...]
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Throwing Things At The Moon
The Moon is great isn’t it? It features in the best album ever (The Dark Side of the Moon) and is like an old friend flying round the Earth. Other planets may have more Moons and more colourful Moons but our moon is ours. If you feel that the Moon needs a hug and protection [...]
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Not Faster Than Light But Fast Light, Is It Possible?
Light is one of those things that you take for granted just switching on a switch or, if you are a caveman, lighting a fire. It appears almost instantaneously as that switch clicks or fire bursts into life. But, you know what I’m going to say don’t you, it’s not that simple. It takes time [...]
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Where Are All The Civilisations?
What is going on? Where are they all? Are they here? Too many questions and literally too little time. It just seems so really boring that we can be the only ones in this universe. Time is definitely a massive problem when looking for somebody alien to chat to. Does it matter that there are [...]
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Does Something Unknown Lurk at the Galactic Center?
It may be a bit of a long way away (26,000 ly) but it is an interesting place to go. At 26,000 light years away it would take 26,000 years as measured by clocks on Earth at the speed of light, and no time at all as measured by your watch. Time is relative, not fixed. [...]
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Blow Up Your Brain With Quantum Physics, Or Perhaps Not?
Quantum theory is bizarre and daft and if somebody told me about this in the pub then I would laugh them outside, and then drown myself in beer. In order to try and understand, we need to forget everything we know about what causes things to happen and what effects are caused. You also need to [...]
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What Are We And The Universe Made Out Of?
Have you ever looked at something and wondered what it was made out of? Why should you? Well it might be a nice fact to know to impress your neighbours or perhaps your friends or even the butcher. Then again it might just be interesting. Everybody learns about molecules and atoms at school and in [...]
