SCIENCE
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How logic and reasoning can fail as scientific tools
In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.…
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March 25, 2024’s full moon portends April 8th’s solar eclipse
The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th’s total eclipse will…
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Ask Ethan: How did matter come to exist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
In the very early Universe, there were tremendous numbers of quarks, leptons, anti-quarks, and anti-leptons of all species. After only…
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How quickly is the Universe disappearing from our reach? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
This image showcases the spectra of four of the galaxies contained within the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The spectrum teaches…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #103 — Active galaxies and the universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
Here to help us explore these objects and their impact this month is Skylar Grayson, a PhD candidate at the…
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Why scientists think the Multiverse isn’t just fiction | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
How likely or unlikely was our Universe to produce a world like Earth? And how plausible would those odds be…
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Ask Ethan: Will our Universe end the same way it began? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes will be spawned as inflation continues,…
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The 7 most bizarre facts about Leap Day | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
As Earth orbits around the Sun, it rotates on its axis. At the present time, it takes 366.242188931 full rotations…
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The gruesome fate of every planet when the Sun dies | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
When our Sun evolves into a red giant and then dies in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination, the innermost worlds…
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Ask Ethan: How long will life persist in our Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Mar, 2024
If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a coronagraph or a starshade, the terrestrial…
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