All posts tagged: Existence

Astrophysicists are close to proving the existence of primordial black holes

Astrophysicists are close to proving the existence of primordial black holes

Published by Jenni Sidey

On November 12, 2025, a ripple passed through the fabric of spacetime and triggered alarms at three gravitational-wave observatories across two continents. The signal, catalogued as S251112cm, was unusual in a way that stopped astrophysicists cold: at least one of the objects that created it appeared to weigh less than the sun. No known stellar process produces a black hole that small. Stars that collapse into black holes leave remnants several times the sun’s mass, at minimum. Something lighter has only one plausible origin, an object that formed not from a dying star but from the raw density of the universe itself, fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Two researchers at the University of Miami believe they now have a framework to explain what LIGO may have found. The case for a primordial origin Nico Cappelluti, an associate professor in the Department of Physics, and Ph.D. student Alberto Magaraggia have published research in the Astrophysical Journal building a quantitative case that the November signal is consistent with a primordial black hole, a class …

Why modern physics is forcing us to rethink existence

Why modern physics is forcing us to rethink existence

Published by Jenni Sidey

MICHELLE THALLER: – My name is Michelle Thaller, and I am an astronomer. I work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. What does being an astronomer entail? – The sort of two words that float about, there’s “astronomer” and “astrophysicist,” and, you know, it kind of depends on whether you’re trying to put on a more friendly or formal vibe, I think. They really, these days, mean the same thing. I think there was a time when there was sort of a separation of duties. There were people that, say, 100 years ago, would map the stars and create all these wonderful catalogs of stars, and you might call those astronomers. You know, the name is from “astro nomi,” to name the stars. And then there were people that tried to figure out what the stars were and how they worked and what the science of it was, you know, behind all that- those would be the astrophysicists. And these days, the two studies are really the same. If you’re an astronomer or an astrophysicist, you …

Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence

Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence

Published by José Betancourt

Keith Miller/Caltech/IPAC – SELab The end of a star’s life can be an extremely violent event. Once it runs out of fuel, its core collapses, and if its original mass is large enough, it can erupt in a supernova, a runaway nuclear fusion event that can release as much energy as the Sun will produce over its entire lifespan of roughly ten billion years. The remains are either a neutron star, an immensely dense lump of matter, or a black hole. Now, scientists believe they may have observed a star dying in real time. They watched as the star, once one of the brightest in the Andromeda galaxy, quietly winked out of existence. Columbia University astronomer Kishalay De and his colleagues analyzed 15 years’ worth of data collected by NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft as part of an effort to measure changes in the amount of infrared radiation millions of stars emit over the years. One star, dubbed M31-2014-DS1, stood out like a sore thumb — brightening in 2015, fading roughly a year later, and eventually disappearing …

Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Confirms the Existence of a Race of Giants – OpentheWord.org

Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Confirms the Existence of a Race of Giants – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

David and Goliath By Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678)/Wikipedia/Public Domain A 3,300 year old Egyptian document on display at London’s British Museum confirms the Bible’s claim that there once a race of giants, the Daily Mail reports. Throughout history there have been giants. Most are one-offs caused by a misfunctioning pituitary gland. This includes the world’s current record holder, a Turkish farmer named Sultan Kösen, who stands 8’3”. His hands are over 11” long. His growth was sparked by a tumor on his pituitary gland. Many of these individuals die young and often have health problems. In Sultan Kösen’s case, he needs crutches to walk. The Bible also speaks of giants, but these were not one-offs, but rather a tribe of giants. These individuals were fully mobile and violent. The 12 spies encountered them after Moses sent them in to spy out the Promised land: And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” (Numbers 13:33 ESV) These …

How Near Death Experiences by the Totally Blind Prove the Existence of the Human Spirit – OpentheWord.org

How Near Death Experiences by the Totally Blind Prove the Existence of the Human Spirit – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Jesus Healing a blind man By Andrey Mironov (artist), Wikipedia, Creative Commons 4.0 ESPAÑOL: Cómo las Experiencias cercanas a la muerte de personas totalmente ciegas prueban la existencia del espíritu humano In a recent video, apologist and former atheist Lee Strobel provided five evidences for the existence of the spiritual realm, CBN reports. While we live in a physical world, we are also part of a spiritual realm that involves Godly angels and demonic ones. Strobel points to verified miracles and unexplained angelic encounter as evidence of this. But the one that caught attention was his third evidence, Near Death Experiences (NDEs). These occur when people who have died reported their spirits leaving their body and allowing them to watch from above what was happening to them on the operating table. Their spirit returned when their bodies were revived. The Bible teaches about the existence of the spirit, soul and body. The soul (mind, will and emotions) is created when our spirit merges with a physical body. At death, our physical body dies, but our spirit …

Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God

Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God

Published by Jenni Sidey

One measure of the impact of the new book by engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, and science writer Olivier Bonnassies is who is talking about it. The Wall Street Journal was not on my bingo card for that. But last Wednesday, Opinion page editor-at-large Jerry Baker dove into an interview with Bollaré on God, the Science, the Evidence: On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker speaks with Bolloré, one of the authors of “God, the Science, the Evidence.” They discuss how the Big Bang and the creation of the universe could be the first sign of a creator, how a belief in God is different than having faith, and whether reason can make the case that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. “Science, Evidence, and the Existence of God,” Wall Street Journal Opinion, October 22, 2025 [47:17 min] Here’s the transcript. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Gerry Baker: … it’s long been generally thought, I think, in sort of the intellectual world, that the more science has advanced, the more religion has retreated. That …

Podcast: Evidence For the Existence of the Human Soul

Podcast: Evidence For the Existence of the Human Soul

Published by Jenni Sidey

Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, the authors of The Immortal Mind: (2025), were interviewed by Wesley J. Smith at Humanize, the podcast of the Center for Human Exceptionalism. From the Introduction: Whether we have souls and what happens to us after death — obliteration, reincarnation, heaven, hell — is a question about which humans have obsessed for as long as we have records of our existence. Indeed, it may be the ultimate question, for as a suicidal Hamlet laments in Shakespeare’s most immortal soliloquy: “To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause…” Wesley’s guests on today’s program respond to Hamlet’s dilemma in their new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul — which argues both that there is abundant scientific data demonstrating the immaterial existence of the human person and that this reality continues after we die. [1:02:11] Show Notes From “Why …