Almost the entire scientific community has held for hundreds of years that for every effect, there must have been a cause. Another way of saying this is cause precedes effect. For example, if you hit a nail with a hammer …

The most popular theory of dark matter is that it is a slow-moving particle. It travels up to a tenth of the speed of light. It neither emits nor scatters light. In other words, it is invisible. However, its effects …

This article is from chapter 1 of my book, Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries. Enjoy! Spontaneous particle creation is the phenomenon of particles appearing from apparently nothing (i.e., a vacuum), hence their name “virtual particles.” However, they appear real, and cause …

If it is not real, it is an extremely scary ghost story. Unfortunately, the phenomena we call dark energy is real. If it plays out on its current course, we are going to be alone, all alone. The billions upon …

In the last five decades, we have come to learn that life can be highly adaptable. Starting with the discovery of extremophiles in the 1960s, our entire understanding of how life may have evolved on Earth has been undergoing a …

In 1905, Einstein published his now famous special theory of relativity. It is one of the pillars of modern physics. The special theory of relativity asserts that no physical entity can travel faster than light, since the energy required to …

Did we actually receive a message from aliens? On August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI (i.e., Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University, Dr. Jerry Ehman detected a strong …

This post is based on material from my book,  Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries, 2012, Louis A. Del Monte (available at Amazon http://amzn.to/Zo1TGn) At the turn of the Twentieth Century, science held that the universe was eternal and static. This meant it had …

Ever know something without understanding how you know it? According to Google, intuition can be defined as: The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling …

This three part post is based on original theoretical research presented in my book, Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries, 2012, Louis A. Del Monte (available at Amazon http://amzn.to/Zo1TGn) In our last post we were left a significant unanswered question. Where does the …