WayneSmallman/physics

From the page: "A first glance at Buddhism -- and most Westerners have had at most a quick glance at this ancient religion -- suggests that it has little in common with science."

From the page: "A central point to understanding string theory is that it cannot be formulated the way all other fundamental theories are, by giving the dynamical variables and the equations they obey. We do not know what the fundamental dynamical variables of string theory are, nor the equations they obey."

From the page: "The European Space Agency had a pretty good week, as its Planck probe, designed to explore the cosmic microwave background left over from the Big Bang, has seen its first light. Elsewhere, a telescope at the European Southern Observatory confirmed that the ESA's planet hunter, CoRoT, has identified the most earth-like planet yet observed outside our solar system."

From the page: "We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and clusters. Clusters are the largest structures in the Universe, but sadly our knowledge of them is not proportional to their size. Researchers have long known that the gas in the centers of some galaxy clusters is rapidly cooling and condensing, but were puzzled why this condensed gas did not form into stars. Until recently, no model existed that successfully explained how this was possible."