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Universes

Physicists Calculate Number of Parallel Universes

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (77) | comments 58

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past few decades, the idea that our universe could be one of many alternate universes within a giant multiverse has grown from a sci-fi fantasy into a legitimate theoretical possibility. ...


The Cosmic Microwave Background

Researchers interpret asymmetry in early universe

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that their new theoretical ...


Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe

Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 8

What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...


Pole Position

Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in ...


MIT commercial property price index posts record drop

MIT commercial property price index posts record drop

Other Sciences / Economics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Transaction prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors fell by 18 percent in the second quarter of 2009, according to an index developed and published by the MIT Center ...


Inflation 'felt' to be not so bad as a wage cut

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many people view a rise in their income as a good thing, even when the increase is completely negated again by inflation. Researchers at Bonn University and the California Institute of Technology have discovered the cerebro-physiological ...