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1 18 pictures show how profoundly large our cosmos is Facebook 42.5K · Reddit 10 · Pinterest 215 42.7K 2 Mercury lost its crown, and isn’t our Solar System’s hottest planet Facebook 23.5K · Pinterest 45 23.6K 3 Can we be certain that time really exists? Facebook 19.1K · Pinterest 79 19.2K 4 This physics trick allows you to beat the speed of light Facebook 13.4K · Pinterest 232 13.6K 5 Time is a fundamentally different type of dimension than space Facebook 8.9K · Reddit 2 · Pinterest 51 8.9K 6 Why mirrors flip left-to-right but not up-and-down Facebook 2.3K · Pinterest 23 2.4K 7 Ask Ethan: Do white holes, the opposite of black holes, physically exist? Facebook 1.7K · Pinterest 24 1.7K 8 The information paradox at the heart of every black hole Facebook 996 · Pinterest 26 1.1K 9 Do gravitational waves show evidence of wave-particle duality? Facebook 834 · Pinterest 17 877 10 Does the expanding Universe stretch space or create new space? Facebook 742 · Reddit 1 · Pinterest 34 819 11 This discovery is why Einstein was history’s greatest physicist Facebook 725 · Pinterest 27 781 12 Quantum fields carry energy. Does that prove that they’re real? Facebook 662 · Reddit 1 · Pinterest 16 679 13 The “perfect cosmological principle” isn’t true for our Universe Facebook 605 · Pinterest 35 656 14 Only four days each year are actually 24 hours long Facebook 434 · Pinterest 30 492 15 Ask Ethan: Are there really charm quarks inside the proton? Facebook 366 · Reddit 1 · Pinterest 34 409 16 The Higgs boson’s most important puzzle remains unsolved Facebook 334 · Pinterest 30 367 17 The 12th-century military disaster that forever changed global finance 173 18 IceCube, high-energy neutrinos, and Francis Halzen win 2026’s Physics Nobel 44 19 “Donnie Darko” offers a time travel lesson you won’t find elsewhere 36 20 Ask Ethan: Do evaporating black holes ever lose their event horizons? 35 21 Ask Ethan: Can a Kevlar tether create artificial gravity in space? 30 22 Is Olympus Mons really the Solar System’s highest mountain? 28 23 A revolution has come in the first of the Big Bang’s 4 cornerstones Pinterest 1 26 24 Starts With A Bang podcast #133 – The Milky Way’s center 26 25 Pure sulfur discovered on Mars, making Martian concrete possible 22 26 Most accurate cosmic clocks show unexpected instability 18 27 Ask Ethan: How did atoms come to be? 18 28 Do we live inside a baby universe that’s really a black hole on the outside? Pinterest 2 18 29 Ask Ethan: If intelligent alien life exists, will we make contact? 14 30 7 mind-bending comparisons between the Universe and the human body 13This is the all-time top 30
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