During cosmological inflation, the space contained in the inflationary region grows exponentially, doubling in…
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Attoseconds aren’t fast enough for particle physics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2023
Although we can do an incredible job of reconstructing what must have occurred close…
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Ask Ethan: Could Earth be the only planet with intelligent life? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2023
This aerial view of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of…
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Attosecond spectroscopy wins 2023’s Nobel Prize in Physics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2023
By starting with a femtosecond laser and compressing the pulses, and then passing those…
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Ask Ethan: Is our Universe truly matter-dominated? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2023
Many examples of stars, nebulae, gas, dust, and other forms of matter can be…
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K2–18b: an inhabited ocean world? Don’t bet on it | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2023
Although the first Earth-sized exoplanet we directly image will potentially have many interesting properties,…
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Will Musk’s Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2023
There are over 40,000 pieces of tracked space debris, and while many occupy low-Earth…