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The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
The mutual distance between well-separated galaxies increases with time as the Universe expands. What else expands, and what doesn’t?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
In ~7 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and die. So will every star, eventually. Here are the different fates they’ll encounter.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
It’s 2024, and we still only know of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model: nothing more. But these 8 unanswered questions…Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you’ll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn’t the Big Bang become…Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
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