Initially, at left, the Universe is filled with neutral, light-blocking matter back before any stars…
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Ask Ethan: Will our Universe end the same way it began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes will…
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Colleges should include standardized testing in admissions | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
In order to admit the most promising students across all socioeconomic backgrounds, an approach that…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a coronagraph…
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The surprising origins of wave-particle duality | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
Although we now know that light, as well as all quanta, can be described as…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If you…
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What was it like when Venus and Mars both died? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence…
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How has the cosmic distance record progressed over time? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
The galaxy HCM-6A, shown here, is stretched and magnified by the effect of gravitational lensing…
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Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation really work? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but instead…
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The biggest questions about the Universe’s beginning | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This timeline of the Universe shows how, from a Planck-scale region of space that possessed…