SCIENCE
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Is the universe actually a fractal? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
This image shows a slice of the matter distribution in the Universe as simulated by the GiggleZ complement to the…
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Ask Ethan: Could SETI detect a “twin” of Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
While we often imagine that an alien civilization that’s intelligent and technologically advanced will be far more advanced than we…
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Our Universe has more galaxies than Carl Sagan ever imagined | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
Taking us beyond the limits of any prior observatory, including all of the ground-based telescopes on Earth as well as…
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Ask Ethan: Do gravitons need to exist? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections to classical gravity are visualized…
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Gold, frankincense, and myrrh: one gift was made in a neutron star | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Universe itself, through a variety of nuclear processes involving stars and stellar remnants, as well as other means, can…
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The most important lesson from JWST’s “baby Milky Way” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Firefly Sparkle galaxy observed with JWST (left) reveals ten bursty star clusters stretched and magnified by gravitational lensing. The…
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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 qubits, with 105 qubits to it.…
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The Big Bang: a series of steps down an energy staircase | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Our Universe, from the hot Big Bang until the present day, underwent a huge amount of growth and evolution, and…
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Starts With A Bang Podcast #112 — Galactic Archaeology | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
This illustration of our Milky Way shows an ancient galactic stream wrapped around our galaxy’s plane at nearly a 90…
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How B-mesons are threatening to break the Standard Model | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
When B-mesons decay, they often decay to either two pions, two kaons, or a kaon and a pion. The fact…
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