Posted on 10/03/2006 8:59:06 PM PDT by FFIGHTER
By Patrick Lannin and Sarah Edmonds
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for work on cosmic radiation which helped pinpoint the age of the universe and supported the Big Bang theory of its birth.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.37 million) prize, said the two men were instrumental to the success of the cosmic background explorer (COBE) satellite program launched by NASA in 1989.
Their work took Big Bang theory, which contends the universe began 15 billion years ago as a tiny dot that exploded into today's huge system of stars and planets, out of the realm of mathematical equations and into the world of precise science.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
Shoots. Way over my head.
Uh, oh. This is real science; muaibowwow, lonelyranger, and other IDists are not going to like it.
I guess my paper on "The Sex Life of a Golf Ball" didn't make it. Oh well. I'll try again next year. If Jimmah and Yassir can win one of these Nobel things, anybody can.
Lots and lots of them.
The Peace Prize and the science prizes are awarded by totally different committees. The science prizes are held in deservedly high esteem.
The Peace Price is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The science prizes this year have all gone to Americans, perhaps a first? The winner of the prize in medicine is the son of the 1959 winner in that category.
The Peace Prize and the science prizes are awarded by totally different committees. The science prizes are held in deservedly high esteem.
Muslims ever get ANY kind of Nobel Prizes? For idiocy maybe?
Muslims ever get ANY kind of Nobel Prizes?
If the science prizes were awarded as slap-dashedly as the peace prizes, Al Gore would have gotten one for inventing the Internet.
2005 Peace Prize: jointly to International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed Elbaradei
1994 Peace Prize: jointly to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1978 Peace Prize: jointly to Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
The Sadat one is deserved, IMO; he went up against (and was ultimately murdered by, IIRC) the nutball Islamofundies.
This is the kind of science NASA should be focusing on; not political boondoggles like the Space station..
Its good to see" theory" backed up by scientific discovery...
Any time I ponder the question, I always come back to the question about whether or not the total amount of energy in our universe, in all of its forms is a constant.
Oh, I'm sorry, you were implying God? Cute.
A belief in God doesn't prevent me from thinking about how He did/does it. Guess you didn't understand the point I was trying to make earlier.
Big Bang's afterglow fails intergalactic 'shadow' test
University of Alabama in Huntsville | 01 September 2006 | Staff (press release)
Posted on 09/01/2006 11:10:03 AM EDT by PatrickHenry
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1693816/posts
Nobel Prize awarded to Big Bang proponents as evidence vanishesOur regular members and readers will recall that the simplest explanation of the microwave radiation is the "temperature of space", as correctly calculated by Eddington in 1926 and verified with greater accuracy by later authors: 2.8°K. This is the minimum temperature that anything bathed in the radiation of distant starlight can reach. No Big Bang proponent ever came close to predicting the correct temperature of this radiation, its dipolar asymmetry, or the tiny size of its fluctuations... The blackbody character of the microwave radiation was an important observational finding, and its discoverers deserve credit for that (despite trying to attach religious significance to it themselves)... [T]he following new results about the microwave radiation were just released in September... "In a finding sure to cause controversy, scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville found a lack of evidence of shadows from 'nearby' clusters of galaxies using new, highly accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background. ⦠Taken together, the data shows a shadow effect about one-fourth of what was predicted - an amount roughly equal in strength to natural variations previously seen in the microwave background across the entire sky... [B]ased on all that we know about radiation sources and halos around clusters, this kind of emission is not expected, and it would be implausible to suggest that several clusters could all emit microwaves at just the right frequency and intensity to match the cosmic background radiation." ...Just over a year ago, published results of another study using WMAP data looked for evidence of "lensing" effects which should have been seen (but weren't) if the microwave background was a Big Bang remnant.
by Tom Van Flandern
Meta Research
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