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The universe’s shape and its oldest light
The 3-torus is a strange and wonderful shape. We can’t readily visualise it because it has a complicated structure, but there’s a way. Imagine you’re standing inside a cube in which light is moving from the left face towards the … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-torus, Big Bang cosmology, COMPACT collaboration, cosmic microwave background, manifold, Max Tegmark, relic radiation, The New York Times, universe geometry, universe shape
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Where is the coolest lab in the universe?
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performs an impressive feat every time it accelerates billions of protons to nearly the speed of light – and not in terms of the energy alone. For example, you release more energy when you clap … Continue reading
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Tagged blue hypergiant, Boomerang Nebula, Bose-Einstein condensate, cosmic microwave background, energy density, Eta Carinae, gas outflow, heat, International Space Station, kinetic energy, Large Hadron Collider, Nature News, red giant, temperature, thermal equilibrium, thermodynamics, vacuum, Vladivostok, white dwarf, Wolfgang Ketterle
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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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The Big Bang did bang
The Hindu March 19, 2014 On March 17, the most important day for cosmology in over a decade, the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics made an announcement that swept even physicists off their feet. Scientists published the first pieces of evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, BICEP2, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, polarization
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