Contemplating the Infinite and the Infinitesimal

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 ... Feb 20, 2024 ... Stars are mostly made of hydrogen. The Big Bang theory explains the most basic observed properties of our universe. What happened before the Big ... 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 ... Aug 19, 2024 ... According to the once-popular idea of the cyclic (or oscillatory) Universe, the current expansion of space could one day revert into a ... By working backwards, they hypothesized that the Universe was denser and hotter in the past. If you make a naive extrapolation, you can go all the way back to a ... ... before time: what existed before the fabled big bang. Semi-Technical ... the universe began,” which is angering traditional advocates of big bang model. Jan 25, 2017 ... I talked about different ways the universe could have existed before the Big Bang, classifying models into four possibilities. 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... Jun 9, 2021 ... How do we know? We have found the radiation left over from when the first atoms formed (the cosmic microwave background radiation) and ... Apr 9, 2008 ... Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question.