Tag Archives: Big Bang
‘Surface of last screaming’
This has nothing to do with anything in the news. I was reading up about the Big Bang for a blog post when I came across this lucid explanation – so good it’s worth sharing for that reason alone – … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bang, cosmology, last scattering surface, phase transition, recombination epoch, scattering, thermal equilibrium
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Disastrous hype
This is one of the worst press releases accompanying a study I’ve seen: The headline and the body appear to have nothing to do with the study itself, which explores the creative properties of an explosion with certain attributes. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged aerospace engineering, Big Bang, hype, mechanical engineering, supernovae, theoretical physics, thermonuclear explosions, Type 1a supernova, University of Central Florida, university press office
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Our universe, the poor man’s accelerator
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data. Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, cosmic microwave background, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Large Hadron Collider
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