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A group for science enthusiasts of all types -- professionals, amateurs, students, anybody who loves science.

Members: 1576
Latest Activity: May 16

Whether you're a professional, a student, an amateur, an enthusiast, whatever! Lots of atheists love science. Might as well have a group for it!

Feel free to nerd out, link articles, talk about your favorite field of research, whatever!

The icon is from www.wearscience.com.

9/28/2008
I've been super busy with school this semester -- no time for Atheist Nexus, sadly!!
If anyone who's around here a lot wants me to toss them moderation privileges to run this group or anything, just send me (Sara) a message! Thanks!

11/14/2009
Removed ability to send mass messages to everyone in the group. At 1000+ members, that seems like asking for spam.

Offer still open if anyone active in the group wants moderation privileges, but it appears everything has been going smoothly with all kinds of great discussions without moderation. Fantastic! :)

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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 11, 2010 at 7:08pm: @ Mike: Great photo, but I wouldn't get my hopes up to quickly just yet. : )

Comment by Fabio on July 11, 2010 at 7:08pm: Whatever that is, it looks pretty awesome :D

Comment by Fabio on July 11, 2010 at 7:06pm: That's pretty much correct. We know the phenomenon of gravity, but don't really know what causes it. Relativity describes gravity as a property of the curvature of space-time itself. String theory describes it the way it does all other fundamental forces, as the result of the exchange of virtual particles called gravitons. To date the two views have resisted all attempts to reconcile them.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 11, 2010 at 7:02pm

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 11, 2010 at 6:58pm: Gotcha Mike. Kind of like I heard in a lecture that the young Universe was like trillions of degrees, but if you were to stand in it you wouldn't get burnt because the molecules were so spread out.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 11, 2010 at 6:56pm: How can a universe "run out" of a dimension?

Good question, Fabio. It's all so interesting! From what I understand, we still don't even really know what gravity is. We know how to measure it, use it, etc, but don't really know what it is.

Comment by Fabio on July 11, 2010 at 6:52pm: Hard to tell from an article, without reading the actual papers, but I can't put my fingers on how they could reconcile that theory with our understanding of time as dimension of space itself. How can a universe "run out" of a dimension? As far as my amateurish understanding of physics goes, time only breaks down at quantum level or at singularity level. Dark energy sounds far more likely to me.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 11, 2010 at 6:51pm: Heat death? I tought it would end in ice?

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 11, 2010 at 6:40pm: Is Time Disappearing from the Universe?

Remember a little thing called the space-time continuum? Well what if the time part of the equation was literally running out? New evidence is suggesting that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. This radical theory may explain a cosmological mystery that has baffled scientists for years.

Read the rest on DailyGalaxy.com.