Avoiding the Singularity

Aug 27, 2014 ... Inflation certainly occurs after the cosmological singularity, but before several important events of the Big Bang. In other words, the ... Jun 30, 2007 ... The idea that the universe erupted with a Big Bang explosion has been a big barrier in scientific attempts to understand the origin of our expanding universe. Dec 16, 2024 ... Discover what scientists now think preceded the massive explosion that kickstarted the universe -- an event we call the Big Bang. Sep 17, 2014 ... I- I don't understand how we know that the big bang is really the beginning. Like, what happened before the big bang? Hank: Well. Okay. Uh... Apr 22, 2020 ... In this scenario, the horizon is defined as how far observers can see before the bounce occurs. “The distance that light can propagate before ... ... big bang cannot tell us what happened before 10-43 seconds, or for that matter, what happened before zero seconds—or why the laws of physics are what they are. Apr 21, 2020 ... One of the earliest string theory notions is the "ekpyrotic" universe, which comes from the Greek word for "conflagration," or fire. In this ... Aug 27, 2022 ... It's like the alphabet soup of physics. And before that? We don't know. We don't know because we have never tested what matter does at energy ... Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them. This kind of beginning to the universe, and ... This episode of the science series explores a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.