February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... Oberth (Romania/Germany), and Robert Goddard (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion of humans into the cosmos). The ‘holy grail’ of this genre is an article published in the May...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... and imperialism. The equation acts as a stepping stone in the development of human rights (and non-human rights), cosmological policy and philosophical theory. It is so-named for two reasons. First, in homage to yet another childhood tale of a far...
26 January 2016
Scientists reveal a new way to test the origins of the Universe
... of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and fellow author of a paper recently submitted to the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. "Most of these signals may be shared by the different scenarios, but there are some...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
... and measure the Universe, as binary black holes will make it possible to measure the luminosity distance to sources at cosmological distances. This will enable researchers to measure the mean density of the Universe and its expansion rate...
15 March 2016
Are our ideas of Dark Matter wrong?
... character and needs to be looked for in a different way,” says Martin Sloth, associate professor at The Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP3- Origins), University of Southern Denmark, who is heading up a new line of research...
26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
..., but this time, by those produced in the inflationary epoch that occurred just after the Big Bang. Cosmological inflation is the current leading theory for the observed characteristics of the universe. One such characteristic is the...
