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This discovery reminds us that "nothing" is never truly nothing in physics. The quantum fields in these voids are the silent architects of the universe's ultimate destruction.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

As these bubbles grow, they press against the filaments of galaxies that make up the cosmic web. Over the next 20 billion years, this process will stretch the universe so far that the web itself will begin to fade away.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In dense regions like our galaxy, gravity keeps things together. But in the deep emptiness of a void, there is nothing to stop dark energy from pushing space outward. These voids are expanding like giant invisible bubbles.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Imagine a region of space with no stars, no gas, and no dark matter. It sounds like a graveyard, but it is actually filled with the energy of the vacuum itself. This is where dark energy truly reigns supreme.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The emptiest places in the universe are actually its most powerful engines. Cosmic voids. They're vast stretches of "nothing" between galaxies, like cosmology's version of Oakland. Problem is they are actively tearing the cosmic web apart.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Dave Friedberg: Here’s How To Stop Aging

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Debate That Never Happened — And Why Truth Is Losing

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You’re Not My Equal — Professor vs Conspiracy Theorist

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If the Moon Landing Was Fake, Why Did Russia Say It Was Real?

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"It's like the denial of humanity!" Piers Morgan and some famous faces take on moon landing sceptic Bart Sibrel...

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

When New Ideas Challenge Science | Matt Kaplan

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Why Your Coffee Cup Is Almost Impossible to Make | Michael Wong

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There's Life On Mars! | Michael Wong

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

As Nobel laureate Adam Riess put it, if this were a movie about the making of our cosmological story, you would not want to go to the bathroom right now. The plot just took its biggest twist yet.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Theorists are already working on a rewrite. Some suggest hidden dimensions or new particles could explain this weird behavior. We are witnessing a historic moment where the script of the universe is being edited in real-time.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

What does this mean? It means the "Big Freeze" might not be the only end-game. If dark energy weakens or strengthens, the fate of every galaxy, star, and atom could be different than we predicted.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

VERSION C: Strong Declarative + Pattern Interrupt Dark energy was supposed to be constant. It's not. Fresh data from the largest galaxy survey ever conducted shows the force tearing our universe apart is changing—and cosmologists don't know why.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

VERSION B: Controversial Truth The universe's fate isn't written. New galaxy-mapping data suggests dark energy is evolving—which means every prediction about cosmic expansion, heat death, and the end of everything might be premature.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

VERSION A: Curiosity Gap + Big Numbers Maps of 40 million galaxies just broke the most tested model in cosmology. Dark energy—the force driving 68% of the universe—appears to be doing something it was never supposed to do.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

AI Lock-In: LLMs & GPUs Explained | David Sussillo

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Can AI Ever Be Conscious? | David Sussillo

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The Illusion of Skill: Lessons from Hedge Funds | Aswath Damodaran

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The Power of Independence at Work | Aswath Damodaran

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The Broken Priorities of Academia | Aswath Damodaran

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Russian Suffixes and Vodka 101 with Nikolay Kukushkin

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Can cells remember? | Nikolay Kukushkin

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Nature doesn’t privilege our coordinate systems. Only our willingness to question them. Pick up Losing the Nobel Prize here amzn.to/2sa5UpA

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Same sky. Same photons. Different priors → different universes. When we say “there are 88 constellations,” what we really mean is: 88 survived institutional standardization.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Other dark constellations included a toad, a fox (Atoq), and even the umbilical cord of the llama, stretching between celestial forms. These constellations tracked seasons, rainfall, and agricultural cycles—astronomy as survival technology.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Their constellations weren’t Orion or Cassiopeia. They were animals traced through darkness—especially the llama, the most important figure in Inca sky lore.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Where Greeks saw points of light, Incan astronomers saw shapes in absence. The Milky Way wasn’t a backdrop—it was the object of study.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Inca did something astonishingly different. They didn’t connect stars. They connected the darkness—the dusty clouds cutting through the Milky Way, visible only from southern skies.

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

There are officially 88 constellations—but that’s a modern, Western bookkeeping choice, not a cosmic truth. Human cultures have drawn the sky in radically different ways for millennia. (amzn.to/2sa5UpA A brief exploration from Losing the Nobel Prize.)

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Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Terry Tao: “AI solved the knottiest problems in math”

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