Tag: Formed

Scientists: How The Illusion Of Self Is Formed

When a young person comes to me and tells me all about their ambitions for their life, which include of course becoming successful, making a lot of money and finally living in the house of their dreams with the one they love, I remind them, “The house of your dreams has a lot of toilets.&rdquo...

What was it like when the cosmic web formed?

Closer back in time to the Big Bang, however, none of those entities were present. There were no stars, no galaxies, and no larger-scale structures at all. Instead, everything was extremely smooth and uniform, with very little clumping or clustering to speak of. At the earliest times of all, the den...

What was it like when the first “polluted” stars formed?

When you look out at the Universe today, and see the vast, dark, backdrop littered with points of light that correspond to stars and galaxies, it’s difficult to imagine that it used to be almost identical everywhere. The Universe, back at its inception, was almost perfectly uniform on all cosm...

What was it like when the first atoms formed?

When it comes to our world, our Solar System, and all the planets, stars, and galaxies we can detect within our Universe, we find that they’re all made up of the same ingredients: atoms. And from the subatomic particles that bind together to make those atoms — electrons and atomic nuclei...

What was it like when the Universe formed the most stars?

If you dare to look out at the wide variety of galaxies found across the Universe, you’ll see that they tell a vastly different set of stories from one another. The largest, most massive variety of galaxy are the giant ellipticals, many of which haven’t formed any new stars over the latt...

What was it like when the first elements formed?

One of the most remarkable achievements in all of human history is the discovery of the scientific story of how our Universe began, evolved over time, and came to be the way it is today. Back in the very early stages of the Universe, we experienced conditions known as the hot Big Bang: where everyth...

What was it like when protons and neutrons formed?

The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and cooling Universe. As we progressed from a hot, dense, uniform state to a cold, sparse, clumpy one, a number of momentous events happened throughout our cosmic history. At the moment of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was filled with all sorts...

Why & How do I see this heart-shaped cardioid formed in my cup?

I first got curious about this weird shape appearing in my cup a few months back, so I googled it and found it’s called a ‘cardioid’. I knew that somehow it was formed inside this cup due to the reflection of light above it. But, I still didn’t know how exactly was this shape...

Do you know how is a magnet formed?

Chumbak kaise banta hai? How is a magnet formed So, if you want to know how a magnet is made, then I will tell you an interesting thing in advance and in the next post we will learn about its other ways. Chumbak kaise bnta hai? (How is a magnet formed?) An easy way of how a magnet is formed is if...