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April 8th @ 7PM -- premiere of the short film "Dark Matter", starring me, at Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR!
March 5, 2010
Category: Astronomy
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese Proverb Every once in a while, we'll look out into the sky with a telescope, and see some spectacular glowing gas. These nebulae typically come about from dead or...
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March 3, 2010
Category: Astronomy
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. -W. Shakespeare After writing about the 80th Birthday of Pluto becoming a planet, I was asked about Pluto's planetary status, and whether...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:30 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 2, 2010
Category: big bang
Yesterday, I wrote to you about part 5 of The Greatest Story Ever Told, about how the Universe came to have more matter than antimatter in it. And many of you correctly responded that I had given too much detail...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 12:36 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2010
Category: big bang
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe. -Albert Einstein Welcome back to our series, The...
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