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In defense of Flat Earthers + Why our universe doesn't have a birthday

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In Defense of Flat Earthers
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...st/431583/

EXCERPT: When I first heard that rapper B.o.B apparently believes the Earth is flat, I sighed the weary sigh of a science writer facing down an anti-science culture. [...] Are you kidding me?” I thought. Will Americans insist on rejecting everything that 100 percent of scientists agree on? [...] But then I clicked through and read B.o.B’s original arguments, and they stirred my very soul.

No, he did not convince me that the Earth is flat, you dopes. [...] Take a look especially at the tweet that started it all: “The cities in the background are approx. 16 miles apart … where is the curve? please explain this.” There’s something touchingly genuine about this to me, some deep seated desire to work through confusion and toward truth. This isn’t a man who never learned science, or who has some fundamentalist objection to examining empirical evidence about the world. This is a man who has looked at the world around him and decided that mainstream science isn’t doing a good job at explaining what he sees. So he’s collecting evidence, seeking out literature by well-versed “experts,” and working out a better theory on his own....



Why Our Universe Doesn’t Have a Birthday
http://nautil.us/blog/why-our-universe-d...a-birthday

EXCERPT: [...] According to standard Big Bang theory, our universe began at an infinitely dense point known as the “singularity.” A good physical theory should get rid of the singularity, so researchers, including us, have been trying to explore whether quantum mechanics can make it go away. In our model, we use the fact that, according to quantum mechanics, position and velocity of almost anything in our universe are uncertain—including a singularity—which therefore should not exist with certainty. There is also the issue of time—does time have a beginning? Standard Big Bang theory says that it does, while our model says that the age of the universe is infinite....
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