A new program about cosmology will debut at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during April. “We have a new presentation April 17 on cosmology,” said Max Gilbraith, the planetarium ...
Cosmology is a research area in astrophysics that investigates the large-scale properties, origin, composition, and dynamical evolution of the Universe as a whole. It integrates general relativity, ...
For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally accepted that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of ...
Cosmologists have an embarrassing problem: we don’t know what shape the universe is. The cosmos has three possible geometries—positively curved like a sphere, flat like an infinite plane or negatively ...
Dr. Niayesh Afshordi, professor at the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute, draws the renormalization group flow for quadratic quantum gravity (University of Waterloo). Waterloo scientists ...
Throughout history, secretive groups built around intense devotion, charismatic leaders, or radical beliefs have appeared in many cultures. While the word “cult” is modern and often controversial, ...