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Topic:
Structure
Speculative ideas about the deeper patterns shaping the universe — from dark matter and cosmic architecture to bold theories that stretch our understanding.
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Structure.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
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Article summary:
If some version of the Big Crunch model ever returns to favor, we can picture one full cosmic cycle, a kind of cosmic year. Cosmocycles is that speculative idea.
2.
Quote:
- Heraclitus.
- 500 BCE.
Meaning:
Change is the only form of permanence that exists—first glimpsed by ancient thinkers, and now woven into the fabric of modern science.
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Physicists often talk about the idea that the universe exploded from nothing in a singularity, that idea is more philosophical than scientic. The universe’s expansion is scientific, the singularity itself remains speculative.
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Competing ideas about the end of the universe, with the Big Freeze currently best supported by observations.
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By tradition, quantum theory was born on December 14, 1900, when Max Planck cracked classical physics with the strange idea that energy comes in discrete packets.
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Infinity is a powerful rational idea used to describe patterns, limits, and unending processes, but it is not something we directly observe as a completed physical object.
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Article summary:
We often talk as if our universe is a self-contained whole, but beyond the limits of observation, we simply do not know what else may exist.
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Physics allows time to bend forward, but all observations so far show that causality is preserved.
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The universe is likely to expand forever toward a cold, isolated end known as the Big Freeze, but that’s trillions of years from now.
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Article summary:
We do not know the ultimate fate of the universe, but the leading ideas are that it expands forever, collapses and starts over, or ends in something more extreme.
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