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Ethan Siegel
Where Does All This Come From?
June 18, 2012
| All of this -- everything that we know of in existence -- had to come from somewhere. In this journey, we'll start with the world that we know and journey out into the Universe, exploring where the elements that form everything on our planet originate from, how they were created in previous generations of stars, where the building blocks of those stars came from and how they formed into galaxies, where those very first atoms came from in the earliest stages of the Big Bang, and finally, why we have a Universe with something in it instead of nothing at all. | |
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Ethan was born in New York City as the son
of a Jewish postal worker. He did his undergrad at Northwestern,
taught public school in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles, California,
before moving to Florida, where he got his PhD in theoretical
astrophysics at the University of Florida. After that, he moved to
Madison, Wisconsin, where he taught at the University of Wisconsin,
ate too much cheese, and also met his life partner, Jamie.
After working in astrophysics research at the University of Arizona and starting the world-renowned science blog, Starts With A Bang, he moved from the hellish desert to rain-soaked Portland in 2008. Since then, he's been a professor at the University of Portland and Lewis & Clark College, grown a nationally renowned beard and mustache and got invited to join a circus.
He currently works as the Science and Health editor at Trapit, and can't wait to tell you a little bit more about the Universe. . His Blog can be found at: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/ . . |
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