What is Time? | Space News

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Modern cosmology fuses the concepts of space and time into a thing, called a four-dimensional continuum. Albert Einstein predicted and recently scientists have claimed to observe ripples in the so-called fabric of space-time. But is it valid to define time in such a way as to reify it, and does…

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An Electrical Engineer’s Take on “Magnetic Reconnection” | Space News

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On the Sun, conventional science says that magnetic field lines move or merge, and frequently break and reconnect. This is called magnetic reconnection, a mechanism that many solar physicists claim to be responsible for enormous, energetic solar outbursts. Recently, scientists using data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft have published a…

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