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Starts With A Bang #26: Traveling Backwards In Time
Ever dream of traveling back in time? According to all the laws of special relativity, all you can do is travel forwards through time, controlling yo…
8 years, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #25 - Why Do We Need Quantum Gravity?
Our current best theories describing the Universe, general relativity for gravity, quantum field theory for electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, …
8 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #24: The James Webb Space Telescope
Right around one year from today, the James Webb Space Telescope will launch to a position 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth, deploying into a q…
8 years, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #23 - Experiencing A Total Solar Eclipse For The First Time
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse occurred over the continental United States for the first time in nearly 39 years, when half the current US…
8 years, 6 months ago
Starts With A Bang #22 - The Science Of Solar Eclipses
On August 21, 2017, a coast-to-coast total eclipse across the United States will occur, the first one in 99 years. As the Moon's shadow hits the Eart…
8 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #21: The Quantum Rule That Makes Existence Possible
At a fundamental level, everything we know of in this Universe is made of the same few fundamental particles: quarks, gluons, electrons and photons, …
8 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #20: Fate Of The Universe
Have you ever wondered how the Universe will end? In the far future, everything that we know, see, measure and perceive today will someday decay away…
8 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #19: Is Time Travel Possible?
Is time travel possible? Of course it's inevitable in some sense, as we always move through the Universe at the "boring" rate of one second per secon…
8 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #18: Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore?
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto: our Solar System's ninth planet. For over 60 years, the Plutonian system was the only one known beyond Nept…
8 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #17 - When Was The First Star Born?
Our Universe was born pristine, with no stars, galaxies, molecules or even stable atoms, some 13.8 billion years ago. Yet today, we're filled with al…
9 years ago