Bildung… This Is Why Understanding Space Is So Hard 15 Jan 201814 Jan 2018 If all the matter in the universe suddenly disappeared, would space still exist? Isaac Newton thought so. Space, he imagined, was something like Star Trek’s holodeck, a 3-dimensional virtual-reality grid…
Bildung… LIGO’s Four Gravitational Wave Detections Come From Off-Kilter Black Hole Mergers 24 Aug 201723 Aug 2017 “You don’t write a paper saying: This is awesome! But we kind of have that feeling. It’s definitely a frontier.” By Becky Ferreira | MOTHERBOARD Two years ago, an entirely new…
Bildung… Life Is a Braid in Spacetime 3 Okt 20153 Okt 2015 How to see yourself in a world where only math is real By Max Tegmark|NAUTILUS Excuse me, but what’s the time?” I’m guessing that you, like me, are guilty of…
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