SCIENCE
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Starts With A Bang podcast #108 — A future particle collider | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This image shows the expected signature of a Higgs boson decaying to bottom-quark jets around the collision point inside a…
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7 changes destroying the Moon would have on planet Earth | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
The lunar horizon glow, shown here as imaged by the Clementine Spacecraft in the 1990s, had actually been seen numerous…
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Ask Ethan: Did black holes form directly from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This set of illustrations explains how a large black hole can form from the direct collapse of a massive cloud…
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The reality of quantum fluctuations was proven back in 1947 | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2024
This visualization of field lines shows a classical picture of fields, such as electric or magnetic fields. However, at the…
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How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This overhead shot shows the start of the finals of the men’s 100 meter race during the Tokyo Olympics. Although…
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Ask Ethan: Does time exist, or is it an illusion? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
Time is normally something we measure with clocks: devices that record its passage from one moment to the next. While…
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10 profound answers about the math behind Artificial Intelligence | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
One of the remarkable technological developments in recent years has been that of a “learning machine,” or artificial intelligence. Although…
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Ask Ethan: Is Earth’s climate changing as the Sun loses mass? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
Over time, the Sun loses mass through the emission of solar wind particles and the process of internal nuclear fusion.…
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Strongest “missing link” in black hole physics discovered at last | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
This artist’s conception shows an intermediate mass black hole at the center of globular cluster Omega Centauri: the largest globular…
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Ask Ethan: Is it all-or-nothing for the expanding Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2024
At the start of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was rapidly expanding and filled with high-energy, very densely packed,…
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