Tag: universes

Buddhism can be taught in many ways. On one path, there’s a rigid, rational approach where strict adherence to precepts and lengthy, unwavering meditations are the norm. Here, even a minor movement can be seen as a lapse in discipline. In contrast, another path revels in intuition and spontane...

One of the biggest surprises in all of science history came at the very end of the 20th century. For the prior ~70 years, astronomers had strived to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, hoping to discover what made up our Universe and to determine its ultimate fate. Quite unexpectedly, they d...

Many of us — perhaps even most of us — didn’t know what we wanted to do with our lives, career-wise, when we were still in school. Some of us didn’t have any very strong interests that stood out from the other possibilities; others of us had many interests and didn’t kn...

From the moment in 1915 that Einstein released his General theory of Relativity out into the world, he knew he had a Universe-sized problem to reckon with. His new theory of gravitation was incredible in many ways. It reproduced all of its predecessor’s (Newtonian gravity’s) successes, f...

From the moment in 1915 that Einstein released his General theory of Relativity out into the world, he knew he had a Universe-sized problem to reckon with. His new theory of gravitation was incredible in many ways. It reproduced all of its predecessor’s (Newtonian gravity’s) successes, f...