Bad news for the multiverse: it's still not likely Comic book writers love multiverses. It’s such an easy way to explain continuity problems; just say it happened in a different universe and move on. Luke Barnes, who many of you may remember from his presentation at COSAC 2018, had a closer look at the multiverse concept. |
ABC Conversations, with Jennifer Wiseman Dr Jennifer Wiseman, ISCAST's newest distinguished fellow, was recently interviewed by the ABC's Conversations program. We had the honour of hearing Jennifer speak at COSAC 2018 and subsequently in the ACT, NSW and Victoria. At the end of this interview (the last 3 minutes), Jennifer talks of how she relates her faith to her science. |
Videos from COSAC 2018These videos were live-streamed on the ISCAST Facebook page during COSAC 2018. Please see below for the videos and check back as more are loaded. |
Southern Cross star given new name to recognise Aboriginal astronomy Until last month, the smallest star in the Southern Cross had the no-nonsense title of Epsilon Crucis – literally the fifth-brightest star of the Cross. |
String theory, God and the limits of science Michael Strauss, particle physicist and Christian, explains string theory (the most popular attempt at the physicists' 'theory of everything') for the layperson. Amongst other things, string theory has been criticised for not even being science.
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Why is M-theory the leading candidate for a theory of everything? The mother of all string theories passes a litmus test that, so far, no other candidate theory of quantum gravity has been able to match. |
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude A super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties, writes Cathal O’Connell. |
War of the Worldviews: appeals to beauty and destiny in an era of space exploration ISCAST fellow James Garth writes ... Two decades have passed since the day I saw a remarkable advertisement in Aviation Week. It took up a full page and featured a beautiful artist’s concept of an elegant, futuristic spaceplane. |
ISCAST fellow and Mars-man, Jonathan Clark, reports on his latest Mars simulation in The Conversation Jonathan Clarke has just returned from another mission to simulate life on Mars. This time he was on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, where the sun never sets in the northern summer. It’s all part of a project to see what some of the challenges are, should humans one day decide to live on Mars. (Jon will be speaking at ISCAST's science, faith and apologetics conference in March 2018.) |
Testing general relativity On May 29, 1919, Einstein’s four-year-old Theory of General Relativity was put to its first test during a total solar eclipse. By measuring how the images of stars shift when the sun is close-by, and with a lot of care, you might be able to repeat this famous test from nearly 100 years ago. |