The Most Astounding Fact
The video clip “The Most Astounding Fact” is both emotionally moving and hugely insightful. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a knack for explaining cosmological events with such passion and simplicity.
Tagged: Universe
A Dummies Guide to Quantum Physics
An introduction to the basic theories of quantum physics and how these affect our reality (or make our heads explode)
What happened before the Big Bang?
There are now at least 6 theories that aim to address the question of what happened before the Big Bang
Choices and the Uncertainty Principle cont.
Take this page; look at it at ever smaller distances and time scales and the apparent mad world I have described will unfold before your eyes
Sitting on Planet Earth in Relative Safety
I paid a visit to the Planetarium again recently. I was so inspired that I wrote this cosmology poem. I call it “Sitting on Planet Earth in Relative Safety”
Choices and the Uncertainty Principle
Suppose you want to order breakfast and the waiter gives you a menu of thousands of different choices
The evolution of stars in the universe
In the disc of the Milky Way galaxy we find metal-rich Population I stars, which are capable of forming planets
