Bursting balloons – a fresh look at the Big Bang
We’ve just been watching the BBC’s enjoyable Horizon programme “Is everything we know about the Universe wrong?“.
We’ve just been watching the BBC’s enjoyable Horizon programme “Is everything we know about the Universe wrong?“.
Man walks down the street. Takes him ten minutes every morning. One day, his watch breaks and starts running fast. It takes twice as long, according to the watch. Completing the same distance took twenty minutes. He buys a new … Continue reading
You could fall into a black hole, but I’d never see you get there. Odd, eh? Reason being, Einstein’s Equivalence Principle – which forms part of his General Theory of Relativity. This states that an accelerating frame of reference is … Continue reading
I’ve finally finished the project. When looking into the most recent papers, it seems there’s a general consistency in the data between values of H0. I was really expecting a lot of variation in this, but this seems to have … Continue reading
75%. Awesome I was a lot happier with this years TMA03 than the previous years, even though I rewrote quite a lot at the last minute to focus on being a literary review, rather than an overview of the … Continue reading