Anthropic Selection in the Multiverse

May 22, 2001 ... Review of various imaginative theories offered by cosmologists to explain what might have existed before birth of universe; drawings (M) 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 ... Mar 31, 2020 ... Understanding how the universe began has been a goal for scientists, philosophers, and theologians for millennia. Some studies suggest that the state of the universe before the Big Bang is unknown and requires assumptions, while other studies propose scenarios like ... Dec 10, 2008 ... ... the universe. As its equations cannot cope with such infinities, general relativity fails to describe what happens at the big bang. Dec 2, 2018 ... What existed before the big bang? Did something have to be be there in order to go boom? – Ethan, 10, Sydney. Ethan, what a question. To ... ... before and blah blah blah blah blah, but at the time of the poem, there was a belief that what existed before the big bang was something called the singularity. Jan 29, 2025 ... The Big Bang Theory stands as the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe. According to this theory, the universe began as an ... Apr 9, 2008 ... Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. Mar 29, 2022 ... It had to be filled with new stories you haven't heard before, or go much deeper into those that had already been told. Jim Parsons Mayim Bialik ...