More filters. Sort order. Dec 16, Maurice Williams rated it really liked it. Intrigued, I got his book to glimpse these secrets myself. The sentence understood in ordinary English provides, for me, no meaningful insight into what existence is. Witt takes a strange view of it, actually using it to explain why there is no causality in his view of the universe.
The universe just happens to exist — period. His universe is a self-contained unit, having all the components of the physical universe within itself, not requiring any outside agents to effect any phenomena in the universe. Chickens cause eggs and eggs cause chickens continuously over time. There are other schools of learning that claim to know why the universe is here. Both philosophy and theology, especially theology based on divine revelation, argue that God created the universe.
Without any doubt, I would accept that God created the universe. His argument about causality alone would raise doubts in my mind. Our collective outlooks on both science and law enforcement are both fueled by cause and effect. If law enforcement encounters a crime scene, nobody brushes it off as a chance event. They will always conduct a search for the person who caused the event. In science or medicine, if something is observed to happen, scientists and doctors will always launch a search for the cause of what happened.
Terrence Witt presents an overview of current cosmological theories and tries to resolve what he sees as inconsistencies in current thinking. For those interested in mathematics, he includes much math to illustrate how Null Physics explains observed phenomena.
Witt claims his Null Physics is free of the inconsistencies that mar current theories. Terrence Witt caused me to reconsider my own perceptions about the universe and to be aware of how others view the universe.
I enjoyed the mental exercise his book stirred up in me. Apr 23, Brian rated it it was amazing. This book offers mind boggling insight into the universe.
Best science book I have ever read to date. But the guy Terrance is a genius like Einstein believe me I don't use that word loosely. Its the most profound book I have read outside of religion.
He discovered not invented something that is amazing to put in words. Basically the Big Bang is a crock. The universe is eternal and infinite just as I felt, but this book tells me why in great detail, plus other questions I had unanswered.
I've b This book offers mind boggling insight into the universe. I've been waiting for something like this since I was able to ask the tough questions about the universe. I listened to his podcast, which makes this very evident by his speech style and personality. So I know he's the real deal, not seeking fame and fortune. He just has a unrelenting passion for this stuff, why else would he have stuck with this for 37 years to discover all this.
Oct 23, Lorileinart rated it it was ok. Having said that, I was completely absorbed with Witt's logic that the sum total of everything is nothing.
This is his description of reality, and in some ways, it makes sense. It solves some of the problems that we encounter with the big bang unsurmountable problems, in my opinion and other more recent theories that try to explain the nature and origins of the universe.
In short, Witt proposes that the universe has ALWAYS been here and always will be because the "creation" of the universe via big bang violates the laws of thermodynamics.
Existence is essentially a subset of Nonexistence and one cannot occur without the other. These propositions were interesting to me and fun to ponder The rest, including his meandering, unscientific data, were purely ridiculous.
Jan 01, Aaron Schiffer rated it liked it. I typically love any attempt to derive the Universe from First Principles. It was imaginative in that regard. And he further makes falsifiable predictions, so his Null Physics represents a solid scientific hypothesis. I'm not sure about whether he can do much to make falsifiable his premises, which rest on not so much observation as metaphysics or logic. I'm almost certain that in his train of logic, he mixes up definitions, because he somehow moves from logical terms as Ockham would use them, t I typically love any attempt to derive the Universe from First Principles.
I'm almost certain that in his train of logic, he mixes up definitions, because he somehow moves from logical terms as Ockham would use them, to corporeal physical entities. Still very interesting and probably instructive. Jun 07, Ellen rated it it was amazing. Sometimes, it's great to browse textbooks. We pick up all kinds of knowledge. I always tell my students to browse chapter outlines and marginalia, glossaries, and detailed tables of contents, and that's what I did with this book.
I learned a lot about physics, something I did not get to study in school. Chapter summaries and outlines are well written and intriguing even for lay people. Sometimes, we have to step outside our comfort zone, and this is a terrific way to read our way out of it.
Jul 18, Lance rated it it was amazing. Fantastic read, you have to read it from the beginning or the math later on and the overall theory will be lost to you. John Wimmer rated it it was amazing Oct 10, May 21, Mirko Popovich rated it really liked it. Presents a great new perspective to understand our Universe. David Mexicotte rated it liked it Feb 02, Mike Savage rated it liked it Feb 27, Andy rated it it was amazing Dec 13, Matthew Dalzell rated it really liked it Feb 11, Tasha rated it really liked it Jul 12, Witt will describe his universe theory, the implications of his theory, as well as his new cosmological paradigm: the cosmic fusion cycle.
Witt will appear on Saturday, January 24 from p. A book sale as well as a signing will follow the program. The Orlando Public Library is located at E. Central Blvd in downtown Orlando. For more information, call Saturday, January 24 is your chance to join the debate about Our Undiscovered Universe. We all know that super massive black holes lurk in the center of galaxies. We know that they can have strong impacts on the surroundings; usually we can see how things are being impacted by the outflows of energetic particles being ejected from feeding black holes.
However, if a black hole is not active and does not have jets usually we cannot see anything left over, any remnants from its energetic past.
Well recently using the Chandra X-ray observatory a ghost of an eruption from a massive black hole has been observed and may have some interesting things to tell us. The X-ray ghost, so-called because a diffuse X-ray source has remained after other radiation from the outburst has died away, is in the Chandra Deep Field-North, one of the deepest X-ray images ever taken.
The source HDF is over 10 billion light-years away a time when galaxies and black holes were forming at a high rate. Scientists think the X-ray glow from HDF is evidence for a powerful outburst from its central black hole in the form of jets of energetic particles traveling at almost the speed of light.
When the eruption was ongoing, it produced large amounts of radio and X radiation, but after several million years, the radio signal faded from view as the electrons radiated away their energy. However, less energetic electrons can still produce X-rays by interacting with the pervasive sea of photons remaining from the cosmic background radiation. Collisions between these electrons and the background photons can impart enough energy to the photons to boost them into the X-ray energy band.
This process produces an extended X-ray source that lasts for another 30 million years or so. This is the first X-ray ghost ever seen after the demise of radio-bright jets. Astronomers have observed extensive X-ray emission with a similar origin, but only from galaxies with radio emission on large scales, signifying continued eruptions. In HDF , only a point source is detected in radio images, coinciding with the massive elliptical galaxy seen in its optical image.
This radio source indicates the presence of a growing supermassive black hole. The power contained in the black hole eruption was likely to be considerable, equivalent to about a billion supernovas.
The energy is dumped into the surroundings and transports and heats the gas. The data tells us that there should be many more such ghosts lurking around out there, especially if black hole eruptions are as common as are thought in the distant universe.
This is a good discovery as it tells us that we do not have to catch a black hole in the act to witness the big impact they can have. Once we have found more of them we can search for patterns in the data, see if there are commonalities in these eruptions or links between the data and other such things such as the mass of the black hole. Modern develops in hunting for planets outside of our own solar system have yielded the discovery of well over a hundred different planets now.
These newer methods include very new telescopes with the resolving power of being able to actually see an exoplanet, with which only 1 so far has been confirmed photographed, and other methods include using radial stellar velocity, or the Doppler effect, and the transit method. Now for the first time since its inception 50 years ago the method of astrometry has found an exoplanet.
The method of astrometry was first thought of 50 years ago to search for planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.
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