How Weird is the Cosmos?
A group of distinguished physicists and astrophysicists outline the latest discoveries of how our universe began and continues to function, and marvel at how quickly the exotic becomes commonplace as...
View ArticleWhat does an Expanding Universe Mean?
The expanding universe is humanity’s monumental discovery. Beginning with something infinitesimally small, the universe has become something majestically large. How could this happen? What could this...
View ArticleWhat is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about? The post What is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?...
View ArticleWhat does an Expanding Universe Mean?
The expanding universe is humanity’s monumental discovery. Beginning infinitesimally small, the universe has become majestically large. How could this happen? What could this mean? Will the universe...
View ArticleHow Significant is an Expanding Universe?
What to make of an expanding universe? For one thing, roll the ‘movie’ in reverse and we have all the matter concentrated in what seems to be a single point, which seems to be impossible. Roll the...
View ArticleHow did Matter Form in the Early Universe?
The early universe was a superhot plasma of particles all running seemingly at random as if in a gigantic cauldron. How then the structure we see today with galaxies, stars, and planets? What forces...
View ArticleWhat is the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe?
Galaxies and clusters of galaxies, untold billions of them, adorn the cosmos. How did such large-scale structure of the universe come about? The universe started as a hot soup. What stirred the soup...
View ArticleWhy is the Universe Expanding?
We know our universe is expanding—this is one of humankind’s seminal discoveries. What caused such colossal expansion? We call it the Big Bang, but what were the forces involved? How do they work? What...
View ArticleThe Future of Cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the structure, beginning and end of the universe, and it has been transformed from mostly metaphysical speculation to a precision observational science. We read the microwave...
View ArticleFreeman Dyson, Part I: From Physics to the Far Future
Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire, was one of the most inventive thinkers of our age: discovering new mathematics, challenging fundamental physics, colonizing space, searching for signatures of...
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