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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
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- appreciate the grandeur and complexity of the world around you,
- better understand and discuss news and developments in science, and
- spark further interest in some of science's many exciting areas of study.
- introduces you to the history behind it,
- lays out the science that has helped us grasp it,
- explains what researchers have discovered to date, and
- reveals what we have yet to discover.
- Neutrinos
- : Discovered in 1956, these fast-moving, ghostlike particles are made in abundance in the sun's core. They hardly interact with matter; it takes a light-year's worth of lead (5.8 trillion miles) to stop a neutrino. Not only that, but 65 billion neutrinos pass through every centimeter of your body that's facing the sun every second of every day.
- String theory
- : This astounding theory offers the hope of unifying all the particles and forces of physics. In the past several decades since the dawn of string theory, it's been imagined that all the fundamental particles we see and measure are just the manifestation in our dimension of strings vibrating in higher dimensions and at different frequencies.
- Quantum foam
- : This idea posits that when the fabric of space and time is so tightly curved on itself, space-time is less a smooth curve and more like the froth on a latte. In this state of matter and energy, quantum fluctuations can spawn entire universes, each with slightly different laws of physics within them!
- get a peek at what it would be like to travel through a black hole,
- ponder the possibility that life on Earth originated in debris from Mars,
- probe the supposed existence of multiple universes, and
- even imagine the possible end of the universe itself.
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