And now, for your pleasant Wednesday morning headline. A UC Berkeley physicist says that the laws of physics are simply incompatible with a model of the universe in which things just keep on going forever. So, bad news: they won’t. More »
Hawking’s covered the end of the world, now he’s examining the beginning—writing “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going”. The Big Bang was a certainty. [Reuters] More »
From the smallest measurable distance to the reach of the known universe, the Scale of the Universe flash animation from Fotoshop on Newgrounds is both fascinating and mind boggling at the same time. The trippy background music makes it even better. Definitely worth five minutes of your time today – find it at the link below.
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The Known Universe is a new video from NYC’s Hayden Planetarium. It slowly zooms out from the mountains of Tibet to the realms of the observable universe and beyond. Man, we are f—king nothing. More »
Discovery Channel compiled a mind-frakking list of 10 things you didn’t know about antimatter—the stuff that, when mixed with matter, powers the warp engines of Star Trek. And this excerpt made my brain dizzy:
