Paradox

Wormholes Could Help Solve an Infamous Black Hole Paradox, Says Fun New Paper

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What happens to information after it has passed beyond the event horizon of a black hole? There have been suggestions that the geometry of wormholes might help us solve this vexing problem – but the math has been tricky, to say the least.   In a new paper, an international team of physicists has found … Read more

The Red Sky Paradox Will Make You Question Our Very Place in The Universe

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On the grand cosmic scale, our little corner of the Universe isn’t all that special – this idea lies at the heart of the Copernican principle. Yet there’s one major aspect about our planet that’s peculiar indeed: Our Sun is a yellow dwarf.    Because our home star is what we know most intimately, it … Read more

Fermi Paradox: Where are the aliens?

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The Fermi Paradox seeks to answer the question of where the aliens are.  Given that our solar system is quite young compared to the rest of the universe — roughly 4.5 billion years old, compared to 13.8 billion — and that interstellar travel might be fairly easy to achieve given enough time, Earth should have been … Read more