A brief history of the universe
Carl Sagan once said “the cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be”. Statements like this deserve to be repeated; the kind of […]
Tag Archives: Universe
Deprogram perceptions
Have you ever stopped and considered just quite how much of what you value isn’t real? Not in an abstract sense – just the simple sense of non-existence. Have a […]
The flatness problem
I am doing a reasonable amount of reading in inflationary cosmology at the moment, thanks to a talk I went to with a German Dr of Cosmology last week – […]
When worlds collide
The long expected end of the Galaxy is the collision with Andromeda, in a symphony of gravity, interstellar matter and a whole load of destruction and subsequent creation of a monster […]
Kepler 438b, a viable opportunity?
Keplar 438b is around the same size as Earth is and orbits a cooler star than the sun with a year of around 35 days. Temperature wise it is around the […]
The world is a hologram?
This idea was first but forward by one of the best Theoretical Physicists alive today – Gerard ’t Hooft. One of the great things about this man (aside from the […]
How big is the universe?
This is one of my favourite questions simply because it just makes you feel so insignificant. In a good way. An average person spends much of their life deriving value […]
The odor of the universe
In my travels through the internet I stumbled on a weird and wonderful fact: space is smelly. Genuinely – it isn’t like one of those science facts that is so […]
Rationalising The Universe 