Cosmology
Cosmology coverage keeps circling the biggest questions and refusing the easy landing. A theoretical physicist calls the Genesis creation story a fairy tale and then explains why that is fine, and argues from seven decades of physics that the simulation hypothesis probably does not hold, while a particle physicist admits the universe's missing matter remains a genuine mystery.
Tim Urban says the black hole era lasts so long you would need 1.4 billion observable universes packed with timeline ribbon to measure it
The Wait But Why writer turned far-future cosmology into a craft-store nightmare, and the math is mostly the point.
Don Lincoln says galaxies with no dark matter are strong evidence dark matter is real
The physicist’s best pro dark matter argument is wonderfully backward: the missing stuff looks more real when you can find places where it’s missing.
Don Lincoln says we exist because the early universe had one extra matter particle per billion antimatter particles
The Fermilab physicist framed existence as the leftover scrap from a cosmic matter-antimatter wipeout, then admitted nobody knows what caused the imbalance.
Michio Kaku Calls Genesis a Fairy Tale and Then Explains Why That's Fine
The theoretical physicist comes to the Diary of a CEO to talk immortality, nuclear annihilation, and why the Bible is a metaphor he actually respects.
Don Lincoln Has Spent 30 Years Looking for Dark Matter and Has Absolutely No Idea What It Is
The Fermilab physicist makes a compelling case for something he cannot find, cannot name, and cannot stop thinking about.
Michio Kaku Says We're Probably Not in a Simulation, and He Has 71 Years of Physics to Back It Up
The string theory co-founder visits Diary of a CEO and does something rare: he actually answers the big questions, then politely dismantles one of the internet's favorite cosmic theories.