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Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some of our greatest minds over the last century. So what’s the holdup? When...
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Is Time Travel Impossible?
Time travel stories are cool because both the past and future are somehow more interesting that the present and because everyone wants a redo. But so far it appears we’re doomed to live consumed by regret in the eternal, boring present....
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The Nature of Nothing
It turns out that "nothing" is one of the most interesting somethings in all of physics.
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What Is Dark Energy Made Of? Comparing Leading Theories
It’s one of the biggest mysteries in science. It makes up the majority of the universe. What is dark energy? What is dark energy made of? What is quintessence? Is Dark energy the cosmological constant?...
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The Alcubierre Drive: Is Warp Speed Scientifically Possible?
Alcubierre warp drive - faster than light travel? Is Warp speed possible? Enterprise from Star Trek can go 9000 times the speed of light. By comparison, the fastest manmade object, the Juno probe goes 0.0002 times...
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The Casimir Effect: Exploring Attraction Between Mirrors in a VacuumToday 1088
Scientists at the University of Leicester are researching the Casimir effect, a phenomenon predicted by physicist Hendrik Casimir over 50 years ago. By studying the attraction generated between two mirrors placed very close together in a...