When two particles are entangled in the quantum mechanical sense, it’s as though some…
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Ask Ethan: Does quantum computation occur in parallel universes? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Google Willow chip is the first quantum chip to have more than 100…
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The secret reason the USA beat the USSR to the Moon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Apollo 11 brought humans onto the surface of the Moon for the first time…
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How large is the biggest galaxy in the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
This view of galaxy IC 1101 in size the galaxy cluster Abell 2029 is…
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Ask Ethan: Will everything eventually succumb to Hawking radiation? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The simulated decay of a black hole not only results in the emission of…
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Unlike the picture that Newton had of instantaneous forces along the line-of-sight connecting any…
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Why the number “1/137” appears everywhere in nature | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Each s orbital (red), each of the p orbitals (yellow), the d orbitals (blue)…
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The Steady-State Universe: a viable alternative to the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Galaxies identified in the eXtreme Deep Field image can be broken up into nearby,…
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Ask Ethan: Does the CMB really “prove” the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
This map shows the CMB’s polarization signal, as measured by the Planck satellite in…
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How to make peace with the weirdness of quantum mechanics | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2024
In a traditional Schrodinger’s cat experiment, you do not know whether the outcome of…