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6 days ago

Cosmic inflation explains the Universe's low entropy at birth

Entropy in the Universe is continuously increasing, leading towards a maximum entropy state known as the heat death.
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5 months ago

A Warm' Model of the Early Universe Could Solve Two Cosmic Mysteries at Once

Cosmic inflation may have been warm from the start, generating matter via Standard Model interactions while requiring only one additional unconfirmed particle.
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5 months ago

Ask Ethan: Why couldn't the Universe have expanded forever?

A homogeneous Universe filled with energy cannot remain static; it must expand or contract.
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6 months ago

The 5 biggest mysteries about the origin of our Universe

Fundamental cosmological questions remain: baryon asymmetry, dark matter origin, first stars' properties, inflation's nature, and the pre-inflationary past.
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fromBig Think
8 months ago

Ask Ethan: Could our whole Universe be a black hole's interior?

Black holes have inaccessible interiors due to event horizons, representing profound mysteries in the Universe.
fromBig Think
10 months ago

Ask Ethan: Does cosmic inflation violate energy conservation?

Emmy Noether established a profound connection between symmetries in physics and conservation laws, revealing that not all systems adhere to strict energy conservation principles.
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10 months ago

Ask Ethan: Was the Universe "timeless" before the Big Bang?

Time behaves consistently across all observers, regardless of extreme conditions.
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