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Tag: Big Bang

  • ‘Surface of last screaming’

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    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 – for the surface of last scattering, the site of an important event in the history…

  • Disastrous hype

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    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, the press office of the University of Central Florida has drafted a popular version that…

  • Our universe, the poor man’s accelerator

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    That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data.