Cosmology
Dark Energy Ignited By Gamma-Ray Bursts?
[/caption] Dark energy... We're still not exactly sure of what it is or where it comes from. Is it possible…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Edge Of Significance
[/caption] Some recent work on Type 1a supernovae velocities suggests that the universe may not be as isotropic as our…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Coincidence
[/caption] Cosmologists tend not to get all that excited about the universe being 74% dark energy and 26% conventional energy…
Q&A with Brian Cox, part 1: Recent Hints of the Higgs
[/caption] At two separate conferences in July, particle physicists announced some provoking news about the Higgs boson, and while the…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – A Photon’s Point Of View
[/caption] From a photon's point of view, it is emitted and then instantaneously reabsorbed. This is true for a photon…
Testing the Multiverse… Observationally!
[/caption]The multiverse theory is famous for its striking imagery. Just imagine our own Universe, drifting among a veritable sea of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Bubblology
[/caption] One model of a hypothetical multiverse has, perhaps appropriately, some similarity to a glass of beer. Imagine an eternal…
Elliptical Galaxies Don’t Act Their Age…
[/caption] Thanks to images taken with the MegaCam camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, CNRC/CNRS/University of Hawaii), researchers are…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Gravitational Waves
[/caption] Gravitational waves have some similar properties to light. They move at the same speed in a vacuum - and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Granularity
[/caption] The very small wavelength of gamma ray light offers the potential to gain high resolution data about very fine…