Patrick Rizio
CERN
Got a chance to visit CERN, where the Large Hadron Collider creates conditions of the very early universe, accelerating particles to VERY...
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Patrick Rizio
- Sep 18
- 2 min
Getting closer and closer
Above is an artist's conception of what planet K2-18-B might look like. It is a mere 124 light years away. Not much in cosmic terms. It...
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Patrick Rizio
- Sep 9
- 2 min
13.8 Billion Years isn't that long
One of the greatest tools ever put together for exploration is responsible for the pictures above. I'm referring, of course, to the James...
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Patrick Rizio
- Feb 27
- 2 min
UPENDING WHAT WE KNOW
Above are some recent pictures made by the James Webb Telescope. If you follow such things in the news you'll know that they are pictures...
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Patrick Rizio
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Our Tiny Dot
This internet image is a view of our earth, (arrow), from under the rings of Saturn. Reminiscent of the famous Carl Sagan pale blue dot...
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Patrick Rizio
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
Intellectual curiosity
The other day I was asked, why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? A worldwide pandemic struck 1918. It infected 500 million...
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Patrick Rizio
- Jul 4, 2020
- 1 min
Einstein House
Talking Einstein. A while back I had the privilege of visiting the Einstein Museum in Bern Switzerland. (It's the apartment he lived in...
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