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1000 Things You Didn’t Know About the Universe #3: It’s Mostly Made of Nothing

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Welcome to a new series of posts that will characterize 1000 amazing facts about the Universe.  There is so much out there that we have yet to learn, and every day, astronomers across the globe are using their research to reveal the deepest secrets of the cosmos.  This series will look at the strangest, coolest, most exciting facts that we have discovered in hundreds of years of modern science. Fact #3: The Universe is made of a ridiculous amount of nothing. What is everything made of? The answer will change depending on how much education you have.  For most of...

Huge Physics News: Neutron-Proton Mass Difference Found!

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Our entire universe, from the tiniest atoms, to the structure of our experiential world, to the most massive galaxy clusters and the cosmic web, is dependent on a set of single properties, where small changes to these fundamental numbers would lead to a state where none of it could exist.  Understanding these fundamental numbers is the key to unlocking the deepest secrets of the universe and answering the biggest questions of our existence.  One of these numbers is the tiny difference in the masses of the proton and neutron.  If it varied even a little bit in either direction, we...