Tag: cosmology
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Weird discrepancy in cosmic measurements has cosmologists puzzled
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The growing crisis in cosmology For The Week: How rapidly is the universe expanding? Since Edwin Hubble first discovered in 1929 that galaxies are getting farther apart over time,…
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The world … er, the universe is flat!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] What’s the Shape of the Universe? A New Study Is Sparking Debate For Curiosity: What is the shape of the universe? The universe is everything that we can observe,…
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Looking for the fifth dimension with wrinkles in spacetime
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Are We Closer to Finding a Fifth Dimension? For The Daily Beast: In Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, the characters travel from one place to another…
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Why physicists hate time
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Wait a second: What came before the big bang? Not everyone thinks the universe had a beginning. This story originally appeared in the print edition of the September issue…
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Forging dark matter in the Big Bang
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The origins of dark matter Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang For Symmetry Magazine: Transitions are everywhere we look. Water freezes,…
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The search for magnetic monopoles, the truest north
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The hunt for the truest north Many theories predict the existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them For Symmetry Magazine: If you chop a magnet…
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Confused about the Big Bang? Start here
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The Big Bang is the central concept in cosmology — the study of the whole universe — but it can be confusing to a lot of people. In fact,…
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Finding all the matter in the cosmos — even the invisible stuff
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] “Weak Lensing” Helps Astronomers Map the Mass of the Universe By making galaxies a little bit brighter, it points the way to elusive galaxies and lets us detect that…
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BICEP3: Revenge of the telescope
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Dusting for the fingerprint of inflation with BICEP3 A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off For Symmetry Magazine: When researchers with the BICEP2…
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