False Vacuum Bubbles

Mar 14, 2019 ... Around 13.7 billion years ago, our Universe sprang into existence, but what was around before the Big Bang? In an episode of Star Talk ... 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 ... May 24, 2019 ... Professor Hiranya Peiris (UCL Physics & Astronomy) discusses the origins of the universe, and how the science fiction author Arthur C Clarke ... There is no 'at the same time as' until the universe has differentiated to the point where one event can be temporally related to other events via an observer. 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 ... Jul 1, 2007 ... It is practically impossible to draw conclusions about fluctuations of the Universe before the Big Bang: the relevant parameter is suppressed by ... A vacuum chamber has been made by NASA to try and recreate a state of total nothingness. In this space, they have pumped out the air, and frozen every ... Jul 21, 2014 ... MIT professor Alan Guth has spent the past three decades hypothesizing about “what banged, why it banged, [and] what happened before it banged”. May 31, 2024 ... No experiment has yet been devised that can observe what happened before inflation. However, mathematicians can sketch out some possible ... Jul 29, 2022 ... How can this happen? What happened to institutions, to book editors, etc.? This strange world is like Orwell's 1984, physics version! I'm ...