SCIENCE
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The 10 biggest physics and astronomy lies from 2023 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Size comparison of the two black holes imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration: M87*, at the heart of…
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Ask Ethan: Do any particles not have antiparticles? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Whether elementary or composite, all known particles can annihilate with their antiparticle counterparts. In some cases, particles are matter and…
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The act of ice skating is a miracle of physics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
The grooves seen on the rink ice after ice skaters have passed over it aren’t due to the ice skates…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #100 — Galaxies in the JWST era | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
This image shows a portion of the CEERS survey’s area, viewed with JWST and with NIRCam imagery. Within this field…
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Will 2023’s Geminids be the best of all-time? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
If you can find clear skies, the Geminids could well put on the most spectacular show of any meteor shower…
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What was it like at the beginning of the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2023
This timeline of the Universe shows how, from a Planck-scale region of space that possessed an inflationary state, the properties…
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What was it like when the Universe was at its hottest? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2023
At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and filled with high-energy, very densely packed,…
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What was it like when matter defeated antimatter? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2023
At the high temperatures achieved in the very young Universe, not only can particles and photons be spontaneously created, given…
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What was it like when the Higgs gave particles mass? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2023
This reconstruction of particle tracks shows a candidate Higgs event in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at…
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What was it like when protons and neutrons formed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
At high temperatures, large densities, or both, there are no stable baryons (combinations of three quarks in bound states) anymore,…
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