More interesting than sex or racism...

And you can make your own Windows Theme from these background images
which I've rescued from the article and its original version and then resized and as they say digitally enhanced. They make interesting 'wallpaper'.

Here's what caught my attention in page one above: The Indiana University Professor, Mark Messier's quote: "The Standard Model, as it stands, has no good explanation for why the Universe has anything in it at all."

Hold the phone right there, Professor. Assuming we believe the Big Bang was the beginning of all this, with everything in the known Universe originally condensed into an infinitely small package (comparatively speaking) and then being subjected to an immediate and extremely forceful expansion involving unimaginable heat and energy, then there's something in the Universe because it takes time for that expansion and cooling (and radiation) to spread out and in other words dissipate. Time is why there's something in the Universe, because there hasn't yet been enough time for that original Big Bang or hydrogen bomb or whatever it was to completely dissipate into the surrounding space. We're here, because we just haven't had time to vanish yet. And before someone points out that we've had 13.5 to 15 billions of years already, let's consider that time is relative to our local conditions, and our time is not necessarily the same exact time as experienced in our galaxy, or the local cluster, or in the Universe as a whole. One cell of our body lives for maybe four days, but our whole being lasts for 75 to 100 years, so whose time is that cell running on? See what I mean? Its 'four days' may be the whole lifespan of one of our galaxies, by its standards - how do we know for sure? I think I'm saying 'time is relative'...

And "What causes neutrons to have mass?" Evidently, they all have some rather intense velocity, or they couldn't penetrate ordinary matter like they do. Velocity = Energy = Mass. Isn't that what Uncle Albert tried to teach us. He used a lot of mathematics to formulate or describe his concepts. I don't think in terms of numbers or formulae, but rather in pictures. I picture tiny little particles whizzing through matter, going to beat hell, and missing most of the other stuff around them because it's made of much bigger pieces further apart. And they're going to beat hell because smaller and lighter objects are easier to put into motion than bigger, heavier ones are - so if we applied the same force to the little ones as to bigger ones, the little ones ought to achieve a higher velocity from it, perhaps....that's why buckshot flies further and hits harder than bullshit does, unless you're a used car salesman..... Any Questions?