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Jul 5, 2019

Scientists are trying to open a portal to a parallel universe

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Does a mysterious mirror world lurk in the shadows of perceived reality? It could explain a lot.

Jul 4, 2019

This Is How Mastering Dark Matter Could Take Us To The Stars

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It’s found everywhere we know how to look, and just might be nature’s perfect fuel. Here’s how to harness it.

Jul 3, 2019

No, Black Holes Will Never Consume The Universe

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O.o.


No matter how long you wait, the matter that makes you probably won’t end up inside a black hole.

Jun 27, 2019

“Astrophysicsts Baffled” –AI Accurately Simulates the Universe & Dark Matter

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AI Simulates the Universe, including amount of dark matter.

Jun 27, 2019

The golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire

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Whether it was the Big Bang, Midas or God himself, we don’t really need to unlock the mystery of the origins of gold when we’ve already identified an asteroid worth $700 quintillion in precious heavy metals.

If anything launches this metals mining space race, it will be this asteroid—Psyche 16, taking up residence between Mars and Jupiter and carrying around enough heavy metals to net every single person on the planet close to a trillion dollars.

The massive quantities of gold, iron and nickel contained in this asteroid are mind-blowing. The discovery has been made. Now, it’s a question of proving it up.

Jun 26, 2019

WMAP- Content of the Universe

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Public access site for The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and associated information about cosmology.

Jun 25, 2019

Time Will End in Five Billion Years, Physicists Predict

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The universe will cease to exist around the same time our sun is slated to die, according to new predictions based on the multiverse theory.

Jun 25, 2019

Can we engineer the universe?

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From harnessing the power of a black hole to giving stars a nudge, the prospect of playing with solar systems puts our engineering feats on Earth into perspective.

Jun 25, 2019

Study says gravity and Higgs boson interacted to save the universe

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Circa 2014


One second after the Big Bang, the Higgs boson should have caused a Big Crunch, collapsing the universe to nothing. But gravity saved the day.

Jun 25, 2019

Physicists create world’s first multiverse of universes in the lab

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Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park and Towson University are reporting that they have created multiple universes inside a laboratory-created multiverse — a world first.

To be exact, the researchers created a metamaterial — like those used to fashion invisibility cloaks — that, when light passes through it, multiple universes are formed within it. These universes, called Minkowski spacetimes, are similar to our own, except they more neatly tie up Einstein’s theory of special relativity by including time as a fourth dimension.

While this is rather extraordinary, the experimental setup is actually quite simple — though definitely rather unconventional. The multiverse is created inside a solution of cobalt in kerosene. This fluid isn’t usually considered a metamaterial, but lead researcher Igor Smolyaninov and co found that by applying a magnetic field, the ferromagnetic nanoparticles of cobalt line up in neat columns. When light passes through these columns, it behaves as if it’s in a Minkowski universe.