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My father has died suddenly and unexpectedly
This is for anyone who knew him
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Julian Gough
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Down to the flickering sea of quarks
Exploring the profound flaw that underlies all our current theories of the universe
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Julian Gough
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Icy Moons, 1: There’s phosphorus on Enceladus!
From alchemists to ice volcanos: an attempt to understand, and explain, the liquid water oceans sloshing about deep inside the icy moons of Saturn, …
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Julian Gough
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January 2024

December 2023

Killer new evidence that supermassive black holes may indeed form first, before galaxies. (Yeah, as I predicted...) PLUS, some more…
TL;DR: They've found the earliest supermassive black hole yet – and it weighs as much as ALL THE STARS IN ITS GALAXY PUT TOGETHER. (Interesting New…
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Julian Gough
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November 2023

If you are going to San Francisco...
Let's meet up
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Julian Gough
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Holy crap, I've just realised that cosmological natural selection gives you the structure of the universe (FIRST DRAFT #1, give me…
OK, I’ve got a brilliant idea, not yet well expressed. (I tweeted it to a grumpy old man.) Help me make it better.
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Julian Gough
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September 2023

It's Milky Ways all the way back! (Interesting New Paper #1)
A paper digging deep into new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has just flipped everything we thought we knew about early galaxies on its head
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Julian Gough
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The Inaugural Irish Substack Meetup
Join us in Dublin
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Quotes & Notes: An Introduction
I'm going to experiment with sharing some of my research notes with you
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Julian Gough
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August 2023

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