Category: Universe
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Big Bang, universe, logical, illogical.
The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it? Three Perimeter Institute researchers have a new idea about what might have come before the big bang. The problem, as the authors see it, is that the big bang…
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Universe as a computer. Humans as... ?
A future form of computing could see information stored on clusters of microscopic particles suspended in liquid. Clusters of spheres can arrange themselves around a central sphere in a limited number of ways, similar to how a Rubik's cube can only be twisted in certain ways around the central point. Sharon Glotzer at the University…
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Old theories. New theories. All the same... (?!)
When physicists translated a 13th-century Latin text into modern equations, they discovered that the English theologian who wrote it had unwittingly predicted the idea of the multiverse in 1225. While the work probably won't advance current models, it does show that some of the philosophical conundrums posed by cosmology are surprisingly pervasive. In particular, Tom…
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The soul of the universe...
New stem cells can be created if you make the environment around normal cells, more… stressful (e.g. acidic). (1, 2) (although this discovery was later doubted - see here and here) Everything can become life. Life is in everything. What we consider dead, has the potential to become alive. What is alive, entails death. People in the…
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Time does not exist!
A toy universe made up of two photons only, helped scientists reach the conclusion that time does not exist. (1) We have built all too much on the elusive foundation of the passage of time. When that goes away all that is left is… nothing? Or everything?
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