CERN's Large Hadron Collider superseded Fermilab's TeVatron in 2008, but now nears the end of its run. The ambitious FCC project comesContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
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At and beyond the current frontiers of knowledge, many physicists have strongly held opinions. Can surveys point the way to breakthroughs?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
The original idea of the Big Bang was synonymous with a singularity: a point of zero volume. In this Universe, things never got that small.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Theoretical physics is notorious for wild ideas that seem, at first, to be nonsensical fantasies. That's where the tooth fairy comes in.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Astronomers study our cosmic history through stellar and galactic archaeology. But we can't conduct archaeology in space. At least, notContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Light pollution now steals a pristine night sky from the majority of humanity. The rise of LED lighting, primarily since 2014, is to blame.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Today, in the here-and-now, a full 13.8 billion years have elapsed since the start of the hot Big Bang. But would that be true forContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That's not the full story.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Messier 77 is one of the largest nearby spiral galaxies, with an active, brilliant core. Here's what JWST's incomparable eyes saw insideContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
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