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The Big Bang

06/30/2018

Imagine the Big Bang. What would it have “looked like”? A gigantic fireball? The most colossal fireworks explosion you’ve ever seen? A blinding flash of light? None of those comparisons come close, but hey, we’re only human. We have nothing in our world that compares to an event that couldn’t possibly have been “seen”. After all, at the moment of creation, even photons didn’t exist (not to mention eyeballs). Thus, any drawing of a cataclysmic explosion is not even close to what happened in the
Schrödinger's Cat

05/27/2018

I’m a scientific tourist. Regardless of where I travel, I add science to the itinerary (often with full support from my wife). We visit observatories, laboratories and other famous places of science, including scientist’s homes. While planning a trip to Ireland, I was surprised to learn I’ll be staying just around the corner from where Erwin Schrödinger lived when he led the department of physics at Trinity College in Dublin. Cool, let’s go! Most people know the name Schrödinger from the
The Speed of Light

04/24/2018

Col. Sandurz: Prepare ship for light speed! Dark Helmet: No, no, no, light speed is too slow! Col. Sandurz: Light speed, too slow? Dark Helmet: Yes, we’re gonna have to go right to…ludicrous speed! Luckily, the Space Balls ship has just such a setting on their control panel and off they go to catch up with a flying Winnebago. In Quantum Space, Daniel Rice also suggests that light speed is too slow, but for a slightly more serious reason. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is mind-boggling big, about
Flatland

03/21/2018

“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.” Thus, begins the classic science fiction book, Flatland, written in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott. Abbott was not a writer or a scientist or a mathematician – he was a school teacher – and while his story never had the impact of his contemporaries, Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, it remains today a masterpiece of imagination. The story is told by A

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Read Next

Infinity

The Double-Slit Experiment

Visualizing What We Cannot See

The Elusive Neutrino

Hypergiants

The Need for Speed

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