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Part1- The Core Concept & Sheet Layouts

Intro:
Hi everyone, I want to share a conceptual thought experiment and geometric hypothesis exploring an alternative interpretation of Einstein's universe. I do not have a heavy mathematical background, so I am hoping to get a conceptual, plain-English discussion on where the logic of modern spacetime ...

Mick West's overarching account of this decade's "spectacle ring" revival.
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The UFO circus
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2026/10/the-ufo-circus/

EXCERPT: The people promoting the UFO circus are often n...

Today, I traveled a long distance across Delhi, a city that ranks as the second most populous in the world after Tokyo. The journey took nearly an hour on the back of an Uber motorcycle.
The driver was Muslim, and as we passed through streets filled with joyful crowds, vehicles carrying people dancing and celebrating, I noticed two men on a motorcycle carrying a doll with ...

Most believers in God, when asked, will say that their belief is based in part on certain types of evidence that they trust, and in part on faith. The weight given to evidence and faith varies from person to person, but with a little pushing the honest believer will usually admit that God's existence cannot be established on the basis of evidence alone, and that faith is always ...

Hi , I have been considering why a hot air balloon cannot travel into space and the reason being that at a certain altitude the atmosphere becomes thinner and sparse . My thought on this to keep the balloon inflated is to add some ducting that hangs below the hot air balloon and a pump to pump up air into the balloon keeping it inflated . Basically a hot air balloon with a tail ...