Alternatives to Inflationary Cosmology

Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of space-time. However, as pioneering theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton ... Apr 8, 2011 ... Not knowing what came before the Big Bang doesn't stop physicists from theorizing. In the eternal inflation scenario, the known universe bubbled out of a ... Jan 27, 2014 ... We normally think of the Big Bang as the very beginning of our Universe, but we now know the story goes back even before it. Here's how. · The ... Mar 5, 2018 ... ... what happened before the universe came into existence. While it is a ... events before the Big Bang. Hawking's theory lies upon the ... The most popular theories about the earliest phases of the Big Bang describe a process called inflation that started from a so-called so-called 'false vacuum', ... Jan 19, 2012 ... Then there are problems that are fairly specific to cosmology. Standard cosmology, or what was considered standard cosmology twenty years ago, ... May 5, 2006 ... ... the universe must be at least a trillion years old with many big bangs happening before our own. With each bang, the theory predicts that ... Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before ... Dec 16, 2024 ... Discover what scientists now think preceded the massive explosion that kickstarted the universe -- an event we call the Big Bang. Apr 30, 2019 ... Professor Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and colleagues have proposed a new test for inflation, the theory that ...