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Category Archives: Big Bang
Unification
“The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification. To bring together two things previously understood as different and recognize them as aspects of a single entity – when we can do it – is the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang, contemporary romance, cosmology, fiction, literature, physics
Tagged dark energy, History of physics, history of science, inspiration, Planck, romance
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The Perfect Theory – Physicists’ Battles for Muggles
After the ceremony, as the audience and speakers milled around, ready to escape into the London evening, a Polish physicist named Ludwik Silberstein ambled over to Eddington. Silberstein had already written a book about Einstein’s more restricted “special theory of … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Big Bang, cosmology, physics
Tagged books, dark energy, History of physics, women in physic
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Raisin cake and the expanding universe
“Put a raisin cake in the oven, and it’s very small. Then you let it go, and the distance between the raisins is like the distance between the galaxies – it gets larger and larger with time.” Neta Bahacall, in … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang, cosmology, fiction, literature, physics
Tagged baking, fruitcake, galaxies, muffin, raisin cake
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Quotes from speculative science (fiction)
Without tags, would a short piece of text be enough to distinguish between an article about science and a piece of speculative fiction? For example, here are two quotes: (a) “… the initial leap from nothing to something may have … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang, cosmology, fiction, literature, physics
Tagged Douglas Adams, science fiction, speculative fiction
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The Falling Sky – contemporary fiction with realistic physics
‘Do you believe it?’ Ah, that word again. It sounds odd in this space. They are all used to statistical odds, experiment, proof, even uncertainty, but they rarely talk about belief. It sounds too human. And they like to pretend … Continue reading
Posted in Big Bang, cosmology, fiction, literature, physics
Tagged arrogant professors, astronomy, fiction, lab lit, women in physics, women in science
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Fiction, Physics, and BBC
“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big space is,” said the author Douglas Adams. This citation from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy opens the BBC’s animated guide to “Big Bang: How the Universe was created” . The … Continue reading