REVELATION

DISCOVERY.com ...we should be looking not for “second-Earths” but a class of planet that is superhabitable.

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." --Revelation 21:1

The Universe’s Exit Door, The Point Of No Return Measured For The First Time

For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole.

The point of no return: In astronomy, it’s known as a black hole — a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.

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Bang Bang

This question of accounting for what we call the "big bang state" -- the search for a physical explanation of it -- is probably the most important question within the philosophy of cosmology, and there are a couple different lines of thought about it. One that's becoming more and more prevalent in the physics community is the idea that the big bang state itself arose out of some previous condition, and that therefore there might be an explanation of it in terms of the previously existing dynamics by which it came about. There are other ideas, for instance that maybe there might be special sorts of laws, or special sorts of explanatory principles, that would apply uniquely to the initial state of the universe.

What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology

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