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Even if the inflaton started out with the bare minimum level of jitters allowed for by the uncertainty principle, a burst of inflationary expansion would transform these into macroscopic wobbles, superimposing on the overall smoothness of the expanding universe a wavy pattern of variations in the field, much like ripples on the surface of an
... See moreThomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
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The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
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Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Moments of great cultural ferment always correspond with moments of great cultural encounters.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
In the fifty years since Vostok 1, the first ever manned spaceflight, asteroid mining has gone from a perennial pipedream of the Star Trek Forever crowd to a serious enough proposition that a Vatican astronomer felt the need to address ethical concerns in public. In fact, in April 2012 — and with backing from the likes of Google cofounder Larry
... See moreSteven Kotler • Tomorrowland
Astronomers are building a new array of radio telescopes that will generate an exabyte of data per day (an exabyte is a quintillion bytes; a byte is a single value, an integer between 0 and 255, often representing a single letter, digit, or punctuation mark).
Eric Siegel • Predictive Analytics
It had been known since the third century BCE, when Eratosthenes, the director of the Great Library of Alexandria, measured it using a brilliant theoretical and observational technique.