Hacker News with Generative AI: Universe

Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe (quantamagazine.org)
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe has a shape.

Cosmology, Universe, Science, Physics

36 points by jandrewrogers 22 days ago | 2 comments

Alien Truth (paulgraham.com)
If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd share certain truths in common with us.

Alien Life, Philosophy, Universe

6 points by andsoitis 34 days ago | 3 comments

Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain the Universe (sciencealert.com)
There might not be a mysterious 'dark' force accelerating the expansion of the Universe after all. The truth could be much stranger – bubbles of space where time passes at drastically different rates.

Cosmology, Physics, Universe, Time

74 points by NelsonMinar 50 days ago | 76 comments

A chart that shows everything that has ever existed (economist.com)
Some 13.8bn years ago, the universe came into existence in the Big Bang.

Universe, Science, Big Bang

17 points by asplake 62 days ago | 6 comments

First section of Euclid space telescope's map of the universe revealed (theguardian.com)
The first chunk of what will be the largest 3D map of the universe ever made has been revealed, putting 14 million galaxies – not to mention tens of millions of stars in our own Milky Way – on show in incredible detail.

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Mapping, Universe

6 points by Brajeshwar 128 days ago | 0 comments

Cosmology, Physics, Universe, Astronomy

54 points by msolujic 130 days ago | 78 comments

Do we live in a shell universe? (phys.org)
The universe might not be as you think.

Cosmology, Physics, Universe

4 points by birriel 162 days ago | 0 comments

Cosmology, Physics, Big Bang, Universe

16 points by jnord 174 days ago | 0 comments