Category archives: Physics

Nature cares about the direction time flows: T symmetry breaking measured

Nature cares about the direction time flows: T symmetry breaking measured

Particle physicsPhysics

By Mario Herrero-Valea

Back in the decade of 1950, and inspired by the beauty of the formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics, carried out by Feynman among others in the first half of the twentieth century; scientists thought that all physics had to be invariant under three fundamental symmetries that could relate different physical processes between them. These symmetries were […]

ESA’s Planck satellite finds the missing baryons

ESA’s Planck satellite finds the missing baryons

AstrophysicsCosmologyPhysics

By Francisco R. Villatoro

Where is the half of the ordinary matter in the universe not observed yet? Computer simulations of cosmological galaxy formation predict the existence of large intercluster filaments of hot and low-density gas, the so-called cosmic web. For the first time, ESA’s Planck satellite has observed one of such filaments in the merging cluster pair A399-A401 […]