This 1847 painting, known as Galileo before the Holy Office, depicts Galileo during his trial…
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Ask Ethan: Could we build a collider bigger than Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
Particle accelerators can either be linear, where magnets collimate beams of particles while electric fields…
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How a failed experiment led to Einstein’s first big revolution | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
The longer a photon’s wavelength is, the lower in energy it is. But all photons,…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #108 — A future particle collider | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This image shows the expected signature of a Higgs boson decaying to bottom-quark jets around…
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Your guide to 2024’s Perseid meteor shower | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This time-lapse photograph shows several Perseid meteors all pointing away from the same area of…
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Astronomers solve longstanding galaxy cluster collision puzzle | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This multicolored image of colliding galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1–2403 shows optical data from Hubble plus…
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Ask Ethan: Did black holes form directly from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This set of illustrations explains how a large black hole can form from the direct…
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New theoretical calculation solves the ‘muon g-2’ puzzle | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
In 2023, Fermilab’s Muon g-2 collaboration announced their latest results, which were consistent with previous…
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Ask Ethan: Does time exist, or is it an illusion? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
Time is normally something we measure with clocks: devices that record its passage from one…
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The cosmic redemption of astronomer John Couch Adams | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This portrait of astronomer John Couch Adams, drawn by J.S. Stodart after a photograph by…