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18 August 2008
Ten Mysteries of the Solar System
We've all wondered at some point or another what mysteries our Solar System holds. After all, the eight planets (plus Pluto and all those other dwarf planets) orbit within a very small volume of the heliosphere (the volume of space dominated by the influence of the Sun), what's going on in the rest of the [...]
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09 July 2008
Large Hadron Collider Could Generate Dark Matter
One of the biggest questions that occupy particle physicists and cosmologists alike is: what is dark matter? We know that a tiny fraction of the mass of the universe is the visible stuff we can see, but 23% of the Universe is made from stuff that we cannot see. The remaining mass is held in [...]
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14 April 2008
What was Before the Big Bang? An Identical, Reversed Universe
So what did exist before the Big Bang? This question would normally belong in the realms of deep philosophical thinking; the laws of physics have no right to probe beyond the Big Bang barrier. There can be no understanding of what was there before. We have no experience, no observational capability and no way of [...]
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28 March 2008
Why There's More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe
In the first few moments of the Universe, enormous amounts of both matter and antimatter were created, and then moments later combined and annihilated generating the energy that drove the expansion of the Universe. But for some reason, there was an infinitesimal amount more matter than antimatter. Everything that we see today was that tiny [...]
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24 January 2008
Will Time be Replaced by Another Space Dimension?
What if time disappeared? Yes, it sounds like a silly question - and if the cosmos sticks to the current laws of physics - it's a question we need never ask beyond this article. Writing this article would in itself be a waste of my time if the cosmos was that simple. But I'm hedging [...]
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