SCIENCE
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Ask Ethan: How do symmetries work in physics? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] We can imagine that there’s a mirror Universe to ours where the same rules apply. If the big red…
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The “Big Bang” turns 75, thanks to its greatest opponent | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] Fred Hoyle was a regular on BBC radio programs in the 1940s and 1950s, and one of the most…
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Ask Ethan: Will our Universe end the same way it began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes will be spawned as inflation…
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The 7 most bizarre facts about Leap Day | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] As Earth orbits around the Sun, it rotates on its axis. At the present time, it takes 366.242188931 full…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
[ad_1] If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a coronagraph or a starshade, the…
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Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] An ordered, stable system of particles represents a low-entropy state, whereas a more randomized, energetic system of those same…
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How to make galaxies with the wrong amount of dark matter
[ad_1] Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here’s how some galaxies defy…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If you were to graph out…
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The true reason why Einstein was history’s greatest physicist | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] A mural of the Einstein field equations, with an illustration of light bending around the eclipsed sun, the observations…
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Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation really work? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
[ad_1] In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but instead their emitted energy will…
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