Search results for query: * (refine your search)

Abiogenesis - how life on Earth arose from non-living matter, simple organic compounds that either originated here or that arrived from space. Anyone have have any thoughts on this subject and how other hypotheses or theories might feed into it? I suspect that a multiverse and quantum...

Some very interesting ideas from Neil Turok on new approaches to unifying Physics that explain dark matter, dark energy, and suggests other solutions to puzzling problems such as why there are three generations of quarks and leptons and why the vacuum energy density isn't ridiculously huge. He...

It seems The Expanse itself or something related might feature on Apple TV+ once Amazon's rights time out soon. What do people expect will be produced? My hope is for a continuation, but this is probably unlikely as this video explains. One option might be to do some more exploration of the...

I came across this really interesting review of 2001: A Space Odyssey on YouTube: While I enjoyed the review and I think I agree with the YouTuber's analysis, I am annoyed with him reserving the right to delete any comments that he feels attempt to summarise his thesis in words. For that...

Besides KIC 8462852, other strange anomalies crop up in astronomical observations that are hard to explain as naturally occurring. I thought I'd collect them in a new thread rather than muddy the KIC 8462852 thread. These are two anomalies that caught my eye recently. A star, HD 101065, that...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma in the Canary Islands is erupting. What do people think is the possibility of the west flank of the volcano collapsing and causing a megatsunami as hypothesised in 2002. It might have the potential to create 30m-high waves on the eastern seaboard of the US...

I have just watched the most disturbing video that I have ever seen on YouTube: Shocking I know but are there worse examples?

Modus from Jeff Russo and Orchestral Tools is a library for the SINE player created for scoring Star Trek and it even includes a (human) choir singing in Klingon! https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/modus-jeffrusso - select the Audio demos tab to hear a selection of...

How often do you suffer from buyer's remorse? You really, really want something, but when you eventually get it, it's either an overhyped lemon or you realise it hasn't transformed your life in the way you expected and you've effectively burnt your hard-earned money. For example, I'm itching to...

As a successor to the LHC, it has been proposed to build a €20+ billion collider that would be about four times the circumference of the LHC. Even with a collision energy of 100 TeV (10^14 eV) rather than 14 TeV, there's no guarantee that any supersymmetric particles, axions, or other new...

The EM and Mach drives have been independently tested. The tests showed that the drives apparently do not work as their proponents claim. It appears likely that their electronics are simply interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. Ah well, back to the drawing board, chaps...

For a distraction, I'll estimate many possible images it is possible for an average human eye to see in the visible light spectrum (about 380 to 720 nanometres). It's thought that the foveal region covers only 2 degrees of our vision in each eye and contains approximately 7 million red, green...

Just for the hell of it, post a SF &F themed pop or rock song and say why you like it perhaps. Why not add a video link if you can find one. For starters, I give you Dave Edmunds rocking it mightily with "Creature from the Black Lagoon" from the 1979 album Repeat When Necessary.

I've been collecting the available classic DW discs over the past few years and I still have gaps for the generally unloved episodes such as The Gunfighters, Time-flight, The Twin Dilemma, Timelash, Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen. I feel weirdly uncomfortable not having a complete...

I would post this query in Science and Technology except it's mostly tumbleweed and low footfall in there nowadays. In part one of a BBC 4 documentary "Wild Weather" shown yesterday evening, Richard "The Hamster" Hammond claimed that you can forecast oncoming weather trends with some degree of...

Interesting article about the prime number 37 occurring many time in analysis of our DNA and amino acids that it encodes. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/781150/Aliens-created-genetic-code-life-dna There is a better writeup in New Scientist but it's behind a paywall...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41594664 I haven't read Colfer's book but I seem to recall it had a mixed critical reception at the time it was published. Most of the original radio cast reprise their roles apart from Sandra Dickinson, who played Trillian in the TV adaptation...

With all the recent news about the promise of CRISPR-cas9 enzyme for editing the genomes not only of human embryos but of adults as well to potentially cure cancer and repair inherited defects, how long will it be before designer babies such as Julian with all the gifts are a reality? Of...

An amplituhedron is a geometric construct that has many attractive properties for constructing a theory of everything that unifies General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory, allowing us to understand how the Universe right down to the Planck scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron...

My intuition is that it is invented. As evidence, I offer the result (possibly first derived by Euler) that the sum of all the positive integers to infinity is -1/12. Yes, really -- although the infinite series does not converge and the sum also diverges according to the term test, the result...