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Kitchen Science: gastrophysics brings the universe into your kitchen

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageYou can learn a lot about the cosmos in the kitchen.Shutterstock/Wikimedia

This title will probably come as a surprise to you. Astrophysics concerns enormous scales of space, time and energy; kitchens are relatively small, homely places.

So how can there be a connection between astrophysics and the kitchen?

Have you ever dropped a just-opened plastic...

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