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Paul Davies, a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative atArizona State University, says in his new book The Eerie Silence that any aliens exploring the universe will be AI-empowered machines. Not only are machines better able to endure extended exposure to the conditions of space, but they have the potential to develop intelligence far beyond the capacity of the human brain. 
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Following the Big Bang, the universe consisted only of nonmagnetic elements and particles. Now, a new mechanism has been discovered for the magnetisation of the universe even before the emergence of the first stars.
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If the universe is just a Matrix-like simulation, how could we ever know? Physicist Silas Beane of the University of Bonn, Germany, thinks he has the answer.
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The idea that our Universe is a giant cosmic computer pervades modern science. Now one physicists says this assumption is dangerously wrong
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The idea of the universe as a 'giant brain' has been proposed by scientists - and science fiction writers - for decades. But now physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true.
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Solving the mysteries of the universe is usually about finding the best answer to a question.
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Joel Primack, Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC Santa Cruz speaks at the 2011 Technology Horizons Fall Research Exchange.
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What if we could find one single equation that explains every force in the universe? Dr. Michio Kaku explores how physicists may shrink the science of the Big Bang into an equation as small as Einstein's "e=mc^2." Thanks to advances in string theory, physics may allow us to escape the heat death of the universe, explore the multiverse, and unlock the secrets of existence. While firing up our imaginations about the future, Kaku also presents a succinct history of physics and makes a compelling case for why physics is the key to pretty much everything.
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The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age. A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically continue to work as a computer even after the universe cools. A new blueprint for such a time crystal brings its construction a step closer.
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Time might feel like it is running away from us as the pace of life increases but according to scientists, the future will stop completely. More about TIME: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=time Full Article: http://goo.gl/14IE7 Via Jessica Call
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![[VIDEO] Baby Photos of the Universe | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/UpTh52ngKV794om45ZYpQjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
To photograph the very infancy of the Universe—back when it was mere seconds years old—you need an extremely complex camera. In an operation that seems not unlike the building of a backyard tree fort, the EBEX team at Columbia University, led by physicist Amber Miller, has spent seven years building a complex balloon-borne telescope. When it takes flight later this year, over the icy dunes of Antarctica, the hope is that scientists will be able to glimpse a little further into the past than ever before.
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Subscribe to MinutePhysics - it's FREE! http://dft.ba/-minutephysics_sub MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook...
Lindsay Pacheco's curator insight,
April 10, 2013 10:16 PM
For such a short amount of time, this video really left my wowed. I love illustrations to go with explanations during the process of teaching something new and foreign, so you can only imagine how crazy I went for this video. I even watched the other videos on their channel for MinutePhysics and even though the topics may seem "boring" or "too hard," I had no trouble keeping up with the pace of the videos and I have such a miniscule knowledge of physics. I'm not really sure how else to explain how much I enjoyed watching this video, it was extremely fun and creative and I wish I could learn everything this way, because it feels like I'm making it happen in a way and we're learning together, if that makes any sense. This was a pretty tricky subject and I loved how at the end he threw in a little bit about parallell universes and my brain just tipped over the edge to explosion. These spurts of information are definitely slightly overwhelming, but it makes you feel like you learned a lot in only two or three minutes, and I recommend anyone to watch them if they're feeling a little existential or just curious about the universe!
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How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe it is negative because of gravity. Gravity has negative energy. When you add the two together what do you get? Zero, so it takes no energy to create a universe. Universes are for free. A universe is a free lunch.
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Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time. That light may hold within it the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Scientists in the international Dark Energy Survey collaboration have announced that the Dark Energy Camera, the product of eight years of planning and construction by scientists, engineers and technicians on three continents, has achieved first light. The first pictures of the southern sky were taken by the 570-megapixel camera on Sept. 12, 2012.
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A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, a team of physicists at the University of Washington has come up with a potential test to see if the idea holds water.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked by the Templeton Foundation to answer the question "Does the Universe Have a Purpose". Then he read his answer aloud and I drew some pictures for it. http://www.templeton.org/purpose/
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Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It’s a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself.
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Welcome back to yet another installment of the question of whether we’re all just products of an advanced simulation that created an entire universe, but this time, instead of plunging deep into the lore of the Matrix with Moore’s Law hijinks and philosophy, we’ll be hunting for physical proof that the universe is actually a simulation in the realm of quantum chromodynamics
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AfterEffects Tutorial on how to Simulate the Universe: http://dft.ba/-3v1X Millennium Simulation - http://dft.ba/-3v12 Also, explore a map of the big bang! h...
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![Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe Will Blow Your Mind [VIDEO] | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/rr2lQkEfvBWC10FK1g0zJTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
The largest-ever 3D map of the universe includes includes galaxies that date back seven billion years. Via Informatics
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An experiment led at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests that the Standard Model, which describes how subatomic particles interact, may have some flaws.
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To make things clear - Maldacena's universe is not like the one we actually live in! It's a model, a toy universe, which comes complete with its own physics. It's a hologram because all the physical goings-on inside it can be described by a physical theory that's only defined on the boundary. What's more, it's a universe in which the gravity/quantum conundrum has been resolved completely: the boundary theory is purely quantum, it contains no gravity, but a being living in the interior will still experience gravity. Gravity in this universe is part of the holographic illusion. More on COSMOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=cosmology Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald, Pradeep Kr. Banerjee
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Marcus Chown of New Scientist Magazine on his Top 10 Bonkers Things About the Universe...
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