cosmology
31/08/2021 - 19:22
In his new book, “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern chronicles the rise of Gamow and Hoyle into leaders of mostly opposing views of... →
14/04/2021 - 12:53
Did life start that early? Probably not. The hot, dense conditions in the first 20 minutes after the big bang produced only hydrogen... →
04/12/2019 - 15:53
These thoughts circle in my brain as I pad downstairs for that first cup of something warm. The news that awaits me there will be in watts... →
24/05/2019 - 14:30
Now, imagine inhabiting a world without such a numbered timeline for ordering current events, memories and future hopes. For from earliest... →
01/04/2018 - 16:43
Bruno said the universe has no center, and stars are suns, surrounded by planets and moons. Remarkably, he thus outlined large-scale... →
14/03/2018 - 12:24
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to... →
25/03/2017 - 20:15
Of course, plenty of thoughtful people argue that the Earth alone contains too much pain and suffering to be the work of a good God. But... →
25/07/2016 - 15:54
Many physicists have made peace with the idea of a block universe, arguing that the task of the physicist is to describe how the universe... →