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Gravity – Bending the Fabric of Spacetime
General Relativity. Gravity is not a physical “pulling force” like magnetism; it is a geometric consequence of matter bending the fabric of space-time. However, even when viewed through this geometric lens, the energy balance of the universe still holds true.…
Yin Yang – Part 4. The Expansion
As the universe expands and creates more space, it also creates more dark energy to fill that space. While this sounds like it breaks the fundamental laws of science, it is entirely allowed by the rules of physics. Here is…
Yin Yang Part 3. The Universe is Expanding – into Nothing
The Universe is Expanding – into Nothing The universe is not expanding into anything because there is no “outside” or empty space surrounding it. Instead, the universe is the fabric of space itself, and that fabric is stretching.When astronomers say…
Yin Yang Part 2 – Dark Energy 101
Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe Dark energy density has remained completely constant, while the universe simply expanded around it. In the early universe, matter and dark matter dominated because everything was packed tightly together. As space expanded,…
Part 1 – Early Supermassive Black Holes. ‘failed’ Collapsed New Universes?
Are Supermassive Black Holes found in the Early Universe ‘failed’ Collapsed New Universes? I asked this of Google Gemini and got this reponse. The James Webb Space Telescope has recently discovered supermassive black holes (SMBHs) existing just a few hundred…
Chapter 2: The Two Pillars of a Genre: The Golden Age and Hardboiled Counterpoint
Chapter 2: The Two Pillars of a Genre: The Golden Age and Hardboiled Counterpoint Following Poe’s foundation, the detective genre evolved into two distinct and philosophically opposed schools of thought: the “Golden Age” of the “whodunit” and the American “hardboiled”…