The Fragility of Our Existence

Mar 31, 2020 ... by Dan Hooper. Read. Before Einstein, how the universe began was a question for theologians, not scientists. Over a century ... 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 ... Nov 23, 2010 ... Image credit: Gurzadyan and Penrose. (PhysOrg.com) -- In general, asking what happened before the Big Bang is not really considered a science ... Until recently, scientists could only guess at what lay past the edge of space-time. However, as pioneering theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton ... May 29, 2012 ... There's scientific consensus that our universe exploded into existence almost 14 billion years ago in an event known as the Big Bang. Jan 25, 2017 ... I talked about different ways the universe could have existed before the Big Bang, classifying models into four possibilities. 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 ... Jan 19, 2012 ... Then there are problems that are fairly specific to cosmology. Standard cosmology, or what was considered standard cosmology twenty years ago, ... Mar 31, 2020 ... Understanding how the universe began has been a goal for scientists, philosophers, and theologians for millennia. Oct 24, 2019 ... Kaiser and his colleagues attempted to work out what the earliest phases of reheating — that bridge interval at the end of cosmic inflation and ...