The "Big Bang" is commonly described as an explosion, but this is not really a good analogy. In fact, the universe was created through an expansion of space. ... Making a loaf of raisin bread provides a better analogy to the big bang and the expansion of the universe than an explosion. When making raisin bread a baker mixes...
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physicsworld.com - news, views and information for the global physics community from Institute of Physics Publishing ... The burst, called GRB 050904, was observed last September and is thought to have come from an explosion that happened around 12.8 billion years ago, when the universe was just 7% of its current age.
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Behind them came the explosion's fireball, expanding in a lopsided fashion at roughly one-third the speed of light. The gamma rays swept past the Earth on December 27, 2004, when they were detected by NASA's Swift satellite.
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Unraveling the Confusion: the Eightfold Way ... The first steps in resolving the particle proliferation problem were taken by Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman in 1962. They realized that many of the known particle could be fit into a series of families based on ... The lowest plane in this figure is of particular interest.
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"Who Ordered that?": the Extraterrestrials ... A constant shower of cosmic rays, energetic photons, protons, and atomic nuclei, enters the Earth's atmosphere from outer space. ... The first clue to this was obtained by Father Theodor Wulf, a Jesuit priest, in 1910. He climbed the Eiffel tower with an electrometer and measured...
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When, e.g., the materialist says that no other first cause of the universe need be postulated save ether,{1} he is in fact asserting that a material cause is sufficient, and that we may dispense with efficient causes altogether.
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Stars are the chemical factories of the universe. In the core of a star, hydrogen nuclei fuse to helium under inconceivable pressure and extremely high temperatures. ... The simulation suggested that even the explosion of such massive stars could be powered by neutrinos. However, in contrast to smaller stars,
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Enter Quarks: continued ... Particles discovered 1964 - present: ... New particles continue to be discovered. Sometimes a new particle implies the existence of a new quark. Just this happened in the November Revolution in 1974 when the J/psi particle was found simultaneously by Sam Ting at Brookhaven and Burton Richter at...
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Related stories on Universe Today ... Safety inspectors in California have cited Scaled Composites for being at fault for the explosion that killed three employees at their Mojave Air and Space Port. The explosion occurred in July 2007 and stunned the X-Prize winning company.
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