What Makes People Tick?

Remember all the panic pre-2012? Remember those who shouted about the end of the world? Remember reading hyped up reports about a planet that would approach earth, causing all sorts of mayhem and natural disasters? Well, what if the 'conspiracy nuts' got it partly right after all? I read an article today that I simply had to share! It states that a tiny planet has been discovered far beyond Pluto that has been calculated to have an elliptical orbit around our sun. Earth and the planets 'near' us all have a 'round' orbit (my words), which makes this new planet quite something. There might even be a much bigger planet still out there... The mystical planet the 'conspiracy nuts' talked about, known as Nibiru, is also said to have an elliptical orbit. Now I'm not saying that Nibiru of legend is real or anything of the sort - I'm not a scientist, nor a conspiracy theorist in all honesty. I did make the connection, however and it made me wonder i...

Check out New Scientist 's section about space, it is FULL of amazing articles we'd be thrilled to share! http://www.newscientist.com/section/space Stay tuned for more from us later this weekend!

Gravity. I'd always thought of it as something relatively simple. "The force that makes sure that everyone and everything on earth stays on earth", pretty much. This article makes me rethink everything I ever thought I knew about gravity! "Nearly a century ago, Einstein came up with the idea of gravitational waves. Now, in a discovery that physicists are calling "extraordinary" and "spectacular," observers at the South Pole have found the first direct evidence they exist" Read the full article at Time.com

According to this nature.com article; Italian scientists have managed to detect and measure dark matter ---AGAIN !!!  I love living in a world where technology makes it possible to research that which is so immensely far away or HUGE or alien or different that we never before thought it was possible to learn more about it. Who would have thought only  a few hundred years ago that we would be mapping the brain, performing open heart surgery or sending people into space? Who but the most imaginative sci-fi writer could have thought up our current technological and scientific advances? I love it! :-)

If the question "what else is there that humans can't yet see or detect?" bugs you as much as it bugs me, stay tuned. This 2008 article claims that dark matter and dark energy - which cosmologists say is what fills and keeps the universe together, very simply put - may not exist at all. Instead we should be looking for dark fluid. Why? Check out this Space.com article and decide for yourself!