Einstein's Voice: 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

News Flash: Einstein Is Still Right : Discovery News

Einstein Is Still Right
by Jennifer Ouellette | March 22, 2010

"Physicists have grown accustomed to receiving the occasional crackpot letter or email from armchair theorists claiming that 'EINSTEIN WAS WRONG!!!' And now the recipients of those missives have a bit more evidence in their favor. Earlier this month, a team of physicists from UC-Berkeley, University of Zurich, and Princeton University announced that their analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies demonstrates that the theory of general relativity holds true -- now up to about 3.5 billion light years from Earth."

Read the whole article at Discovery News.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Looking for Life in the Multiverse: Scientific American

Looking for Life in the Multiverse: Scientific American
by Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez

"Universes with different physical laws might still be habitable"

We think that the Scientific American should change their subtitle.
The idea that the universe has more than only ONE set of physical laws is logically untenable.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Surpassing Nature, Scientists Bend Light Backward - NYTimes.com

Big Al would have liked this....

Surpassing Nature, Scientists Bend Light Backward - NYTimes.com

by KENNETH CHANG, NYTimes.com

"Using tiny wires and fishnet structures, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found new ways to bend light backward, something that never occurs in nature."

Friday, January 15, 2010

Dark Energy findings support Albert Einstein's Idea of a Cosmological Constant

New findings on dark energy back discarded Einstein theory / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

"Scientists have found that dark energy, the force thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe, may be doing the same thing to local groups of galaxies. That bolsters Einstein's idea of a 'cosmological constant.'"

Sky Earth Native America

Sky Earth Native America 1 :
American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs
Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy,
Volume 1, Edition 2, 266 pages, by Andis Kaulins.

Sky Earth Native America 2 :
American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs
Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy,
Volume 2, Edition 2, 262 pages, by Andis Kaulins.

Both volumes have the same cover except for the labels "Volume 1" viz. "Volume 2".
The image on the cover was created using public domain space photos of Earth from NASA.

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Both book volumes contain the following basic book description:
"Alice Cunningham Fletcher observed in her 1902 publication in the American Anthropologist
that there is ample evidence that some ancient cultures in Native America,
e.g. the Pawnee in Nebraska,
geographically located their villages according to patterns seen in stars of the heavens.
See Alice C. Fletcher, Star Cult Among the Pawnee--A Preliminary Report,
American Anthropologist, 4, 730-736, 1902.
Ralph N. Buckstaff wrote:
"These Indians recognized the constellations as we do, also the important stars,
drawing them according to their magnitude.
The groups were placed with a great deal of thought and care and show long study.
... They were keen observers....
The Pawnee Indians must have had a knowledge of astronomy
comparable to that of the early white men."
See Ralph N. Buckstaff, Stars and Constellations of a Pawnee Sky Map,
American Anthropologist, Vol. 29, Nr. 2, April-June 1927, pp. 279-285, 1927.
In our book, we take these observations one level further
and show that megalithic sites and petroglyphic rock carving
and pictographic rock art in Native America,
together with mounds and earthworks, were made to represent territorial geographic landmarks
placed according to the stars of the sky using the ready map of the starry sky
in the hermetic tradition, "as above, so below".
That mirror image of the heavens on terrestrial land is the "Sky Earth" of Native America,
whose "rock stars" are the real stars of the heavens,
"immortalized" by rock art petroglyphs, pictographs,
cave paintings, earthworks and mounds of various kinds (stone, earth, shells) on our Earth.
These landmarks were placed systematically
in North America, Central America (Meso-America) and South America
and can to a large degree be reconstructed as the Sky Earth of Native America."

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