The Cosmic Gems is one of the most highly magnified objects in space, thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed five extremely dense proto-globular clusters along a hair-thin …
Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine
By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments. Source: Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine This is fascinating and highly promising research: A team of mathematicians take a closer look under which conditions a singularity might occur and have already identified a …
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Three-Body-Problem: Experts discuss physics, mathematics behind hit Netflix show | phys.org
Source: Problems with 3 Body Problem? Experts discuss physics, mathematics behind hit Netflix show Interesting: Virginia Tech physicist Djordje Minic discusses the science behind the Netflix' super success "3 Body Problem" since its release on the digital airwaves. Excerpt from the article: "At the end of the 19th century, the great French mathematician Henri Poincaré's …
The physical reason behind quantum uncertainty | Big Think
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why? Source: The physical reason behind quantum uncertainty The way I'm trying to wrap my head around this uncertainty principle is by imagining a soccer field player launching a direct shot towards the goalie of …
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The surprising origins of wave-particle duality
Source: The surprising origins of wave-particle duality Who would've thought? I hadn't been aware that the discovery of the wave-particle duality of photons, electrons and even larger structures of particles originated in the 17th century from the work of Christiaan Huygens. So the non-deterministic nature of our cosmos and reality are "set in stone" based …
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The expansion of the universe could be a mirage | Live Science
Astronomers use the light from distant stars, such as the Helix Nebula seen here, to measure the apparent expansion of the universe. New resaerch suggests there may be more to the pictue that we're not seeing. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC) Source: The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests | Live …
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Apple in a Box, A Trip to Infinity (2022) | Netflix
A Trip to Infinity, awesome visualization from a chapter in it demonstrating the possibility of the universe playing out each number of infinite possibilities, here with the example of an apple in a tightly sealed box (closed system). Spoiler: That box... could be our universe. 😮
The center of the Universe is here, there, everywhere | Big Think
The center of the Universe is here, there, everywhere, writes Don Lincoln (https://bigthink.com/people/don-lincoln/) for Big Think
Test of Einstein’s General Relativity has Major Implications | Big Think
A group of researchers going by the name MicroSCOPE proved Einstein's Equivalence Principal of Gravity to an accuracy of one part in a quadrillion
How the Universe really makes something from nothing | Big Think
so the "you can't have something from nothing" paradigm is now safely out the door.