The standard model of how the universe works involves the widely accepted theory that dark energy is a fundamental constant of nature that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. But a new ...

Note: For a definition of unfamiliar terms, see our glossary. The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the "letters ...

Proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics is as mind-boggling as ...

I love to think about infinity and the fourth dimension, so I was happy when some cosmologists began saying that our Universe is a pair of infinite hypersheets, or branes, floating in higher ...

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Astronomers have discovered that, in general, the further away a galaxy is, the more red shifted its light is. This means that the further away the galaxies are, the faster they are moving.