Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Why the electron’s mass is vital to life in the UniverseMost fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.23h ago523h ago5
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!10 insights about the expanding Universe from a Nobel LaureateIn the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it…1d ago31d ago3
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!JWST finds distant galaxy with “impossible” light signatureHydrogen emission lines have never been seen earlier than 550 million years after the Big Bang. So why does JADES-GS-z13-1-LA have one?2d ago82d ago8
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Starts With A Bang Podcast #109 — Launching a galactic coneGalactic activity doesn’t just arrive when supermassive black holes feast on matter. Before, during, and after all create fascinating…4d ago4d ago
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Ask Ethan: Could we determine if UAPs/UFOs are aliens?Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.5d ago95d ago9
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Physics heresy: projectiles don’t actually make parabolasTaught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a…6d ago266d ago26
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Inflation and dark matter are not like string theoryInflation, dark matter, and string theory are all proposed extensions to the prior consensus picture. But what does the evidence say?Sep 1117Sep 1117
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!The one cosmic secret that demands a new particle colliderThe observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve…Sep 1012Sep 1012
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!Ask Ethan: Why are inertial and gravitational mass equivalent?The mass that gravitates and the mass that resists motion are, somehow, the same mass. But even Einstein didn’t know why this is so.Sep 64Sep 64
Ethan SiegelinStarts With A Bang!What do unexpected experimental results actually tell us?Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.Sep 55Sep 55