Tag: universes

Ask Ethan: How can I grow up to study parallel Universes?

Many of us — perhaps even most of us — didn’t know what we wanted to do with our lives, career-wise, when we were still in school. Some of us didn’t have any very strong interests that stood out from the other possibilities; others of us had many interests and didn’t kn...

Ask Ethan: Is the Universe???s expansion accelerating or not?

One of the biggest surprises in all of science history came at the very end of the 20th century. For the prior ~70 years, astronomers had strived to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, hoping to discover what made up our Universe and to determine its ultimate fate. Quite unexpectedly, they d...

We are not part of the universe.

Buddhism can be taught in many ways. On one path, there’s a rigid, rational approach where strict adherence to precepts and lengthy, unwavering meditations are the norm. Here, even a minor movement can be seen as a lapse in discipline. In contrast, another path revels in intuition and spontane...