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Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!

How come we’ve never observed a black hole decaying?

According to Stephen Hawking, spontaneously…

Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!

Is our Universe fundamentally unstable, and will it decay?

Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum…

Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!

How B-mesons are threatening to break the Standard Model

We have very specific predictions for how…

Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!

Ask Ethan: Why don’t neutron stars decay?

Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus…

Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!

Ask Ethan: Is the proton stable or unstable?

If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves…

Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!

A failed proton decay search accidentally birthed neutrino astronomy

Before we discovered…