Pink super-moon awaits…

April 7th offers you the brightest super-moon of the year.   This link  shows you the size difference between the upcoming perigee (the nearest) and fall’s apogee moon.  This moon hanging low in the sky may appear pinkish,  but the nickname refers to spring flowers,  many of which offer pink blooms,  The names for moons of different months is a civilian habit, not an astronomical one, and quite frankly the super-moon designation is about the same in the view of astrophysicists.   Regardless,  it’s interesting and fun for us,  so why not pay attention?

 

 

 

 

 

Is Michio Kaku right?

The theoretical physicist one sees on nearly every science show may have changed  his views  on UFOs.   Should we?

I’ve always regarded UFOs as real but unexplained.   I’ve had a handful of experiences with odd lights in the sky, but I felt there was a rational explanation for them,  especially a large airplane flying high in the night sky which made no noise and its lights suddenly disappeared.   It has become increasingly harder to figure out the objects airborne military gun cameras keep capturing.

What say you?

Impossible rocks…

…have  shown up on tiny Anjouan Island,  between Madagascar and the east coast of Africa.   It is a volcanic island,  so why does it have rocks which come from continental crust — more specifically,  from a river delta or beach?

Scientists are trying to figure out why rocks which have no business being located there are there,   How did they get there?   Where did they come from?  This sort of expedition and research can make science a whole lot of fun.  What few people know is that American colleges and universities have buildings stuffed full of rocks and animal specimens and tools and bones and written material which has never been examined by anybody.  There are numerous lifetimes of work just waiting to be undertaken.   Who knows what wondrous discoveries might be made by gathering this unknown material?

 

 

 

Black holes like to eat…

Apparently,  anything  unfortunate enough to be drawn into their orbits.  I fear little,  but  if I didn’t know I’d either be long dead, or would die instantly,  back holes would terrify me.   As it is,  they are merely an interesting phenomenon i am happy to learn more about.

 

 

 

Linking photons for light…

Scientists do some perfectly amazing things.   Even if you don’t know what the heck photons are,  you can appreciate that a group of physicists coaxed individual photons to cozy up to each other and link,  thereby producing a  new form  of light.  For me,  the most appealing aspect is that they don’t know exactly why it works.

 

 

Was Einstein wrong?

About  the speed  of light,  perhaps,  if this new theory pans out.  Einstein has  been wrong  before,  but none of this makes him any less of a genius.

Once again I should remind you that consensus is NOT science.   The more fervently you hear someone say “consensus says”  the more you can be sure that no actual,  provable,  repeatable,  evidence-based science stands behind the claim.   The entire rationale for climate science is based on consensus and outright lies so atrocious they can’t even qualify as junk science.

Missing light mystery…

Either 80% of  the light  in the observable universe is missing,  or the scientists’ calculations don’t work the way they’re supposed to.   Either way it’s an interesting puzzle,  isn’t it?

 

 

Trekkies alert!

NASA is working on getting  to warp speed  by bending a few rules in physics.   I won’t be around to see it,  but it should be interesting work.

Crumpled paper…

I never knew crumpled paper had physics,  but this certainly  helps explain why  wadded-up paper can hurt when it hits you.