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Earth’s magnetic field protects us from deadly space radiation. What if it were drastically weakened, as a precursor to flipping upside down? I mean, it has before … many, many times..
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Check Out Lathrop Lab's YouTube Channel to learn more about their 3-meter experiment that models the Earth's core:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nUrQmFR3pFgEVwW0qAURA
Spaceship Earth has a literal deflector shield. A geomagnetic field. Lines of magnetic force, forged by currents in the planet’s molten core, erupt from the surface close to the north south geographic poles, connecting to each other to wreath the planet in a dipole field, like a gigantic bar magnet. Magnetic fields exert a force on moving charged particles, causing them to spiral around those force lines. That’s helpful, because Earth is constantly bombarded by very fast moving charged particles, especially coming from the Sun. Our magnetic field deflects the worst of these. Not all planets are so lucky. Mars, with its solid core, has no such shield – and so the red planet’s atmosphere was stripped away by the solar wind billions of years ago.
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Now that we have a primer on the aspects of the Big Bang Theory that we know definitely happened, let’s look further into what we don’t yet know, and how the theory could progress in the future. Since there is a discrepancy between general relativity and quantum mechanics, we continue to search for a grand unifying theory... one which may finally lead to a description of the actual moment of the Big Bang! On this week's Space Time, Matt describes what specifically needs fixing within the current theory, and the reasons why.
FURTHER READING:
Electroweak Era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_epoch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPStj2ZuXug&lc=z13iinc5vyemsbk5l04cjrbalxjqd5pgzcw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPStj2ZuXug&lc=z13ov1c4ipqydv0cm235ydgjszy2jpzou04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPStj2ZuXug&lc=z12jgfjafmufg54fj23od1ibvny4jpl5404
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,1,How physics lets us rewind time to the beginning of the universe.
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We pretty much know for sure that the universe was once extremely small, and extremely hot. And we know that something set it in motion, expanding rapidly and continuing to do-so today. But the actual moment of ‘the Big Bang’ is still a bit of a grey area within physics. The theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics disagree on this pivotal “beginning of time,” and physicists continue to search for an all-encompassing theory to unify the study of our universe. On this week’s Space Time, we begin to discuss the current state of the Big Bang Theory, and where it could go from here.
FURTHER READING:
Overview of Big Bang theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
Timeline of the Big Bang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronol...
MinutePhysics made a truly superb video on what the Big Bang really is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3MWR...
Kurzgesagt does a great job describing some of the events of the very early universe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDGg...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw-i_VKd6Wo&lc=z123yzqjqtvkxvcil04cjnjzkx3fufiisac
Lawrence Stanley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw-i_...
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