If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you’ll inevitably create…
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The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah…
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Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s…
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The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes,…
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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further,…
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First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved…
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Particle physics finally charts a healthy path forward | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2024
On the right, the gauge bosons, which mediate the three fundamental quantum forces of our…
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There are only a precious few minutes of totality during even the best solar eclipses.…
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Ask Ethan: Has a new study disproven dark matter and dark energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
The full-field image of MACSJ0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within…
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Why “incompleteness” matters in theoretical physics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections…