Podcast
Calculating the multiverse
If there's a multiverse, then how many of its component universes are like our own?
Philosophy of cosmology
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Calculating the multiverse
If there's a multiverse, then how many of its component universes are like our own?
Article
What is a universe?
What do we know about our Universe? And could there be more than one?
Article
Steady on, Einstein
To celebrate the release of more English translations of Einstein's papers, we revisit one of his previously unknown models of the Universe.
Article
The multiverse: Science or speculation?
If you like to have your mind blown cosmology is a great field to go into. But is it science?
Article
Why does cosmology need philosophy?
George Ellis explains why the study of the cosmos poses some very deep questions.
Article
What is cosmology?
How big is the Universe? Where did it come from and where is it going? Why is it the way it is? These are just some of the questions cosmologists study.
News story
A first swirling glimpse of inflation and gravity waves
Data from BICEP2 gathered in the South Pole reveals swirls in the CMB, the first image of gravitational waves and evidence for inflation.
Article
Why are we here?
David Sloan calculates how likely it is that our Universe exists. He explains to us how, and why the answer can help shape our theories of physics.
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Living in the matrix?
There's no doubt that maths is very good at describing the world around us. Could this be because the Universe we live in is itself a mathematical structure? We talk to Max Tegmark.
Podcast
It's all maths!
In this podcast we talk to Max Tegmark about his hypothesis that the Universe we live in is a mathematical structure.
Article
The puzzle of time
Why does time only ever move in one direction? We talk to philosophers of physics Jeremy Butterfield and David Wallace, as well as the eminent Roger Penrose about the puzzle time poses to physicists and what it has to do with the Big Bang and the second law of thermodynamics.