SCIENCE
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Shortest-lived quantum particles exhibit quantum entanglement, too | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This view of the inside of the ATLAS detector, taken when it was not operational, showcases the largest, most massive…
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Ask Ethan: Does space require dark energy in order to exist? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
While we conventionally think of quantum physics as bringing an inherent uncertainty and “quantum-ness” to the particles that exist in…
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Longest, strongest black hole jets of all-time discovered | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This illustration shows how black hole jets can be as large as the scale of the cosmic web itself, with…
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Ask Ethan: Could a “copy” of me exist in the Multiverse? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that there are an infinite number of parallel universes that exist, holding…
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Global warming makes hurricanes stronger, but less frequent | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This graph shows the historical tropical cyclone frequency as a function of day of the year, with all tropical cyclones…
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JWST finds distant galaxy with “impossible” light signature | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This photometrically derived image of galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1-LA, as acquired with a variety of JWST NIRCam photometric filters, showcases a bright…
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Ask Ethan: Could we determine if UAPs/UFOs are aliens? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
There are many sights in Earth’s night sky that have been witnessed by humans that don’t have a clear and…
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The one cosmic secret that demands a new particle collider | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This illustration shows a hypothetical ring around the Earth, which could represent a particle accelerator even larger than the Earth’s…
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Ask Ethan: Why are inertial and gravitational mass equivalent? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
Here on Earth, in the gravitational field of our planet, there is no way to “shield” ourselves from the gravitational…
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Official verdict: JWST’s early galaxies didn’t break cosmology | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This region of space, viewed first iconically by Hubble and later by JWST, shows an animation that switches between the…
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