Tag: gamma ray bursts

Universe’s Largest Structure is a Cosmic Conundrum

New Science

Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure — so big it takes light 10 billion years to traverse — in a distant part of the universe. by IRENE KLOTZ The discovery poses a conundrum to a fundamental tenet of modern cosmology, which posits that matter should appear to be distributed uniformly if viewed at a […]

10/01/2014

WE MAY NOT LIVE IN A HOLOGRAM AFTER ALL

New Science

You may remember the hubbub that a Fermilab physicist caused last year when he started to investigate some strange results coming from the GEO600 gravitational wave experiment. In a nutshell, GEO600 — a mindbogglingly sensitive piece of kit — started to detect what particle physicist Craig Hogan interpreted as quantum “fuzziness.” This fuzziness, or blurriness […]

13/10/2012