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The next time you're watching a pot of water boil, perhaps for coffee or a cup of soup, pause for a moment and consider: what would this look like in space? Would the turbulent bubbles rise or fall? And how big would they be? Would the liquid stay in the pan at all? Until a few years ago, nobody knew.
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WMAP Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Model is a broadly accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. It postulates that 12 to 14 billion years ago, the portion of the universe we can see today was only a few millimeters across. It has since expanded from this hot dense state into the vast and much cooler cosmos we currently inhabit. We can see remnants of this hot dense matter as the now very cold cosmic microwave background radiation which still pervades the universe and is visible to microwave detectors as a uniform glow across the entire sky.
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Claims that autism is caused by vaccines containing thimerosal have been floored by increasing rates of autism in kids not exposed to the chemical Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained FEATURE: 08:00 05 April 2012 Could trees and bushes have been to blame for the force of one of Europe's biggest peacetime explosions? Violent experiments may now have solved this enigmaWe normally see Saturn’s rings the side from which the sun shines on them. This picture was taken from the other side by the robot Cassini spacecraft. I think it’s still spectacular. From the location of Antarctica, this mind boggling picture was taken of the Sun’s total eclipse behind the Moon. This picture shows the Sun’s corona around the Moon.
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Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coordinates : 46°14′N 06°03′E / 46.233°N 6.05°E / 46.233; 6.05 The Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator .