All About Space

1 min. di lettura

The universe could be infinite in extent, endlessly continuing in all directions, on and on beyond our cosmic horizon with no edges or boundaries. If this picture is accurate then the universe has no edge, and it gives rise to the idea that eventuall

PEARL

2 min. di lettura

Light! The commencement of all being. Wondrous radiant forces flow through the primeval origins of materiality, in a weaving action upon the warm and incubative primal breeding ground of material substance. Shimmering like gold, glittering like soft

Nautilus

9 min. di lettura

As conscious beings, we are constantly aware of the relentless march of time. You can make an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet back into an egg. Dropped glasses shatter and do not reassemble themselves. Above all, we age and become de

How It Works

1 min. di lettura

Much like how the universe expanded and cooled after the Big Bang, which led to the formation of the first hydrogen molecules, the universe could carry on expanding until it reaches absolute zero. Absolute zero is theoretically the lowest temperature

Nautilus

7 min. di lettura

“Excuse me, but what’s the time?” I’m guessing that you, like me, are guilty of having asked this question, as if it were obvious that there is such a thing as the time. Yet you’ve probably never approached a stranger and asked “Excuse me, but what’s

Nautilus

3 min. di lettura

The main elements of the Big Bang model are “easily listed,” says Jim Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science at Princeton. The model holds that the large-scale structure of the cosmos is expanding faster and faster and that, on av

Nautilus

7 min. di lettura

Excuse me, but what’s the time?” I’m guessing that you, like me, are guilty of having asked this question, as if it were obvious that there is such a thing as the time. Yet you’ve probably never approached a stranger and asked “Excuse me, but what’s

Popular Science

2 min. di lettura

THERE’S NO LIMIT TO the questions we’d have to answer to know where, how, or even if the universe ends. But all evidence suggests that we’re not just suspended in some free-form void: Space bends around anything with mass the way a trampoline sags un

Nautilus

3 min. di lettura

Caleb Scharf wants to take you on an epic tour. His latest book, The Zoomable Universe, starts from the ends of the observable universe, exploring its biggest structures, like groups of galaxies, and goes all the way down to the Planck length—less th

NPR

5 min. di lettura

It may be that to explain where the universe came from is an impossibility for our causally-based, logically-oriented, experientially-functioning minds, but we must keep trying, says Marcelo Gleiser.

Nautilus

3 min. di lettura

Caleb Scharf wants to take you on an epic tour. His latest book, The Zoomable Universe, starts from the ends of the observable universe, exploring its biggest structures, like groups of galaxies, and goes all the way down to the Planck length—less th

NPR

4 min. di lettura

Over time, the expansion of the cosmos and the passage of light has unlocked 63 orders of magnitude to us, each one a new opportunity for novelty and complexity, says guest blogger Caleb Scharf.

The Atlantic

4 min. di lettura

"I think at some point you need to provoke people. Science is meant to make people uncomfortable."

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

I spent years in graduate school where terrified students would desperately try to make small talk with Stephen Hawking in the corridors. There were few other women and no one else who was not brilliant, or at least capable of convincingly acting the

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

The universe is the grandest merger story that there is. Complete with mysterious origins, forces of light and darkness, and chemistry complex enough to make the chemical conglomerate BASF blush, the trip from the first moments after the Big Bang to

Science Illustrated

2 min. di lettura

Cosmologists, who work with the structure and development of the universe, are not too keen on unique events without an explanation. It’s just not how nature works. Normally, laws of nature describe a framework in which events take place many times–s

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

The universe is the grandest merger story that there is. Complete with mysterious origins, forces of light and darkness, and chemistry complex enough to make the chemical conglomerate BASF blush, the trip from the first moments after the Big Bang to

All About Space

1 min. di lettura

Even if there is only one universe, there could still be exact copies of this planet knocking around. As there are only a finite number of ways of arranging things, in an infinitely big universe repeats are guaranteed to occur. What happens inside t

New Philosopher

4 min. di lettura

What would be the more shocking revelation: that our universe is teeming with life, making us just another mundane, if self-obsessed, organic smear across an unremarkable rocky planet orbiting a dime-a-billion yellow star; or that the universe is dev

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

The universe is the grandest merger story that there is. Complete with mysterious origins, forces of light and darkness, and chemistry complex enough to make the chemical conglomerate BASF blush, the trip from the first moments after the Big Bang to

Science Illustrated

1 min. di lettura

According to the theory, the Big Bang created everything, going on to form both our universe and a mirror universe. Stars and planets can also exist in the mirror universe, and on some of the planets, life may have originated, and could be contacted

Popular Science

5 min. di lettura

Planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe are so unwaveringly massive that puzzling out how much they weigh feels impossible. Yet, astronomers and physicists have been doing so for centuries. Here's how you measure the mass of a heavenly body.

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

The universe is the grandest merger story that there is. Complete with mysterious origins, forces of light and darkness, and chemistry complex enough to make the chemical conglomerate BASF blush, the trip from the first moments after the Big Bang to

Popular Science

2 min. di lettura

It's hard to imagine the vast nothingness of outer space having a shape, and even harder to sketch what a four-dimensional object looks like in two dimensions—but we tried.

NPR

4 min. di lettura

Zeeya Merali's book tackles the possibility that scientists are getting closer to creating a tiny universe in the laboratory.

BBC Sky at Night

1 min. di lettura

How do scientists think the Universe will end? The theory most currently accepted is ‘heat death’. The Universe is expanding, galaxies are getting farther apart, so over time there will be fewer interactions between galaxies and less gas brought in

BBC Sky at Night

1 min. di lettura

Is there something innately different about the minds of scientists who make giant leaps? I think you need a certain degree of mathematical aptitude because, for some reason we don’t understand, the fundamental laws that orchestrate the Universe a

Popular Science

3 min. di lettura

Cosmologists used to think the universe was totally timeless: no beginning, no end. That might sound mind-melting, but it’s easier on the scientific brain than figuring out what a set starting point would mean, let alone when it would be. So some phy

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

How will the universe end? Cosmologist Katie Mack lays out five ideas in her new book. “[T]he universe is evolving, is changing,” says Mack, an assistant professor in the physics department at North Carolina State University and author of The End of

All About Space

1 min. di lettura

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the furthest that astronomers are able to see from Earth. This ancient light was released when the universe was approximately 380,000 years old, and has been travelling across the cosmos ever since. The furthe