Category Archives: Our Universe

Sean Carroll hosts conversations with the world’s most interesting thinkers on a wide variety of topics including quantum physics, theoretical physics, cosmology, society, philosophy, culture, arts etc. While I enjoy many of his 187, and counting, podcasts, my favorite ones are the ones related to theoretical physics, quantum physics and cosmology. Also I support himContinue reading “Top 10 Theoretical Physics Podcasts on Sean Carroll’s Mindscape”

In my previous blog post, I mentioned a few intriguing questions such as ‘How do we measure the distance to other stars in the Milky Way?’, ‘How do we measure the distances to far away galaxies?’ etc. And in another blog post, I posed several other interesting questions such as ‘What is the Big Bang?’,Continue reading “What is Dark Energy?”

As mentioned in my previous blog post, visible matter like galaxies, stars, and everything that we see on Earth is only 15% of the matter budget of the universe. Dark Matter makes for the rest of 85% of all matter. So what is Dark Matter? If it’s dark and undetectable, how do we even knowContinue reading “What is Dark Matter?”