From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes…
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As Earth orbits around the Sun, it rotates on its axis. At the present…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a…
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Did the Universe have zero entropy when it first began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
An ordered, stable system of particles represents a low-entropy state, whereas a more randomized,…
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Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio.…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If…
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The true reason why Einstein was history’s greatest physicist | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
A mural of the Einstein field equations, with an illustration of light bending around…
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Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation really work? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but…
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What was it like when planet Earth first formed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
When two large bodies collide, as they very likely did between proto-Earth and a…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #102 — The missing exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
That’s what we’re exploring on this episode of the Starts With a Bang podcast,…