SCIENCE
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Ask Ethan: Why do scientists avoid the possibility of God? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size Perhaps the most famous depiction of the ‘Creation of Adam,’…
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5 big unanswered questions about the origin of life | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed What do planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, look like? A variety of possibilities…
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Ask Ethan: Did our Universe really arise from nothing? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed The Universe is an amazing place, and the way it came to be today is…
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The incredible physics of quantum levitation | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed When cooled to low enough temperatures, certain materials will superconduct: the electrical resistance inside them…
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Ask Ethan: Could our whole Universe be a black hole’s interior? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic…
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Why is “F = ma” still the most important equation in physics? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Zoom image will be displayed From anywhere in the Universe, any object that’s in free-fall will have its trajectory determined…
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How particle physics will continue after the last collider | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
Whether two particles collide inside an accelerator or in the depths of space is irrelevant; all that matters is that…
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Ask Ethan: Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
In theory, every quanta within each quantum field theory has a spectrum of excitations it can occupy, and those excitations…
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Humanity’s third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, is arriving now | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image, taken with a small telescope on the night of July 1, 2025, shows what was then known as…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #119 — The CMB | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025
This image shows the Large Aperture Telescope’s colossal, 6-meter primary and secondary mirrors at the Simons Observatory in February of…
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