Fresh Start: SoGeO in the air

A friend of mine sujested to put a forum on my website. Instead I decided to start a sort of community here, because I never get any replies to my blogs, while I'm dying for some comments, like discussions, and like to regularly check other people's websites and blogs.

Hopefully this will activate the often slumbering but otherwise inquiring, critical and/or inspired minds of my friends.

Any subject is welcome, in any language and for any reason.

Hope to get some more comments in the future, and to give some as well!

cheers,
pleins de calins,

Cheryl

That's me!

Op basis van de waarden die u het belangrijkste vindt in uw leven,
behoort u tot het segment van de Ruimdenkers.

Behorende tot de Ruimdenkers ben u een vooruitstrevend persoon met een goede
opleiding. U heeft veel idealen, die vooral links georienteerd zijn. U maakt zich
druk om maatschappelijke problemen en probeert de wereld te verbeteren, beginnend
bij uzelf. U behoort dan ook tot de meest milieubewuste groep. Op uw vrijheid bent
u erg gesteld en u vindt het heerlijk om uw eigen gang te kunnen gaan. U houdt van
een gevarieerd leven met enige risico's. Zelfontplooiing is voor u erg belangrijk
en u stelt hoge eisen aan zowel uzelf als aan anderen. U staat open voor de wereld
om u heen en hecht veel waarde aan de termen begrip en diepgang. Aan vooroordelen
heeft u een uitgesproken hekel. Lezen doet u veel, televisie kijken vooral naar
de publieke zenders. Politiek en maatschappelijke zaken gaan u zeer aan het hart.
U heeft een flexibele instelling en een moderne kijk op het leven.
Het kernwoord van deze groep is Betrokken.

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wow!
This was homework for a subject I am taking: fill in this questionaire about the segmentation of target groups. (segmentation of customers?)
They just describe so totally me, that it's almost freaky.
Fill it in at the link above. Unfortunately, all in Dutch.

big bang

big pic from the Big Bang

from:

and a convincing article which does not support the Big Bang.
pdf file

found via
website

and from: website

The four pillars of the Hot Big Bang model

Expansion of the Universe
Origin of the cosmic background radiation
Synthesis of the light elements
Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure

Shortcomings of the Standard Cosmology

Despite the self-consistency and remarkable success of the standard Hot Big Bang model in describing the evolution of the universe back to only one hundreth of a second, a number of unanswered questions remain regarding the initial state of the universe.

The flatness problem
Why is the matter density of the universe so close to the unstable critical value between perpetual expansion and recollapse into a Big Crunch?

The horizon problem
Why does the universe look the same in all directions when it arises out of causally disconnected regions? This problem is most acute for the very smooth cosmic microwave background radiation.

The density fluctuation problem
The perturbations which gravitationally collapsed to form galaxies must have been primordial in origin; from whence did they arise?

The dark matter problem
Of what stuff is the Universe predominantly made? Nucleosynthesis calculations suggest that the darrk matter of the Universe does not consist of ordinary matter - neutrons and protons?

The exotic relics problem
Phase transitions in the early universe inevitably give rise to topological defects, such as monopoles, and exotic particles. Why don't we see them today?

The thermal state problemWhy should the universe begin in thermal equilibrium when there is no mechanism by which it can be maintained at very high temperatures.

The cosmological constant problemWhy is the cosmological constant 120 orders of magnitude smaller than naively expected from quantum gravity?

The singularity problemThe cosmological singularity at t=0 is an infinite energy density state, so general relativity predicts its own breakdown.

The timescale problemAre independent measurements of the age of the Universe consistent using Hubble's constant and stellar lifetimes?

quarks!

I'm taking a subject called 'From Big Bang, to Baby Boom and beyond...'
Great Title!

And of course, we had to deal with quarks:

Daily inspiration

Some quotes from beliefnet.com's Daily inspirations

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

from: beliefnet.com

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

-Soren Kierkegaard

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