Events occurring in the Universe do not just warp spacetime, but in some instances, can send ripples through this cosmic fabric of spacetime. This is accomplished by multimessenger astronomy. It combines ‘traditional’ observations of the Universe in the...
The universe showed up13,7 billion years ago. Our earth came on scene 4.5 billion years ago. Then, 3.4 billion years ago, life forms began. Prokaryotes were the earliest life forms. The basic timeline is a 4600 million-year-old Earth with 4000 million years...
HOW DID THIS REMOTE BLUE MARBLE COME ABOUT? The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Four eons characterize Earth’s history; from oldest to youngest, these are the Hadeon, Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic. Collectively, the Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic are...
Immediately after the big bang, the new universe was smooth throughout. It soon clumped up. The ripples in the gravity field caused the mass to be born. Seen and unseen particles came together. The universe was being formed, bottom-up. Wall structures, sheets, and...
The dark side, keeping things together, tearing things apart. Space is three dimensions; adding time, you are wandering around in four sizes. As Earth rotates on its axis, it orbits the sun, which orbits the center of the Milky Way, which itself is speeding through...
