Created on Saturday, 03 March 2012 21:39

In 1954 a young Princeton University doctoral candidate named Hugh Everett III came up with the radical idea that parallel universes exactly like our universe exist. These universes are all related to ours; indeed, they branch off from ours, and our universe is branched off of others. Within these parallel universes our wars have had different outcomes than the ones we know. Species that are extinct in our universe have evolved and adapted in others. In other universes humans may have become extinct.

This thought boggles the mind and yet, it is still comprehensible. Notions of parallel universes or dimensions that resemble our own have appeared in works of science fiction and have been used as explanations for metaphysics. With his ‘Many Worlds’ theory Everett was attempting to answer a rather sticky question related to quantum physics: why does quantum matter behave erratically?

The quantum level is the smallest one science has detected so far. The study of quantum physics began in 1900 when physicist Max Planck first introduced the concept to the scientific world. Planck's study of radiation yielded some unusual findings that contradicted classical physical laws. These findings suggested that there are other laws at work in the universe operating on a deeper level than the one we know.

Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 16:24

This short video contains high-resolution visualizations of black holes and other cosmic phenomena based on data generated by telescope observations and ultra-high end computer simulations.

Immersive animations portray the formation of the early universe, star birth and death, the collision of giant galaxies and a simulated flight to a super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Created on Monday, 22 August 2011 20:21

Inside the Milky Way takes viewers on a journey across 100,000 light-years to witness key moments in the history of the Milky Way. Using the latest science, NGC constructs a 3-D state of the art CGI model of our galaxy that allows you to peer into the heart of the Milky Way on the hunt for super-massive black holes.

You can watch how stars are born and die and fly out and above the plane of the galaxy to understand its true shape and scour its dusty spiral arms for the possibility of life.

Last updated: April 27, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Created on Saturday, 31 July 2010 16:30

There was a time, not so long ago, when science seemed to understand how the universe worked. Everything- us, the Earth, the stars, and even exotic-sounding supernovae- was made of atoms that were all created at time-zero: the Big Bang.

In between the atoms was nothing, a void: quite literally, 'space'.

But recently things have started to unravel. There is, it seems, a lot more to the universe than meets the eye. According to the best estimates, we only really know what about 4% of it is made of. But if only 4% is made of atoms what about the rest?

The rest is made of mysterious entities about which very little is understood with equally mysterious names: dark matter and dark energy.