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Time to see the universe with Brian Cox and Dara Ó Briain – it’s Stargazing LIVE!

Posted on January 12, 2012 by physcarl

The unlikeliest duo to teach you all about the universe and how to view it are back on our television screens this January. The second series of Stargazing LIVE is due to begin this coming Monday the 16th January 2012 on … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday To Us! Carl Talks Physics is 1; Competition Time!

Posted on December 25, 2011 by physcarl

On this very day exactly one year ago Carl Talks Physics burst into existence, much like our universe nearly 13.7 billion years ago. Unlike our universe though, the path that we have taken could not have been predicted by elegant laws … Continue reading →

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News: Earth’s bigger and more mysterious brother Kepler 22b

Posted on December 7, 2011 by physcarl

On Monday, NASA announced confirmation of a planet orbiting a star over 180 parsecs from Earth – that’s 3,000 trillion miles away! Kepler 22b is the first planet that orbits its star comfortably within the habitable zone. This is the region around … Continue reading →

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News: Detecting E.T. by looking for their street lights

Posted on November 5, 2011 by physcarl

As far as we know, Earth is the only place in the universe where life exists and indeed, flourishes. We have been fascinated with the thought of alien life for many years and within the last century even begun searching for … Continue reading →

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News: 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics – Mystery of the Accelerating Universe

Posted on October 8, 2011 by physcarl

Last week the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded by the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to three physicists for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess observed supernovae (exploding stars) at … Continue reading →

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News: Have physicists caught neutrinos breaking the universal speed limit?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by physcarl

A few days ago a group of scientists published results from their experiment that appeared to show that neutrinos travelled faster than the speed of light, which Einstein’s theory of special relativity says is the cosmic speed limit – nothing could … Continue reading →

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