The Holographic Universe Revisited

The most popular theories about the earliest phases of the Big Bang describe a process called inflation that started from a so-called so-called 'false vacuum', ... Apr 18, 2019 ... We've all heard that the universe began with the Big Bang — a colossal explosion that ushered it into existence. But what if the Big Bang wasn't ... Aug 1, 2019 ... What Came Before the Big Bang? ... Physicists are still trying to solve this mystery. ... Before there were humans, dinosaurs walked the Earth. Nov 11, 2010 ... Other Big Bangs: Maybe the universe has expansion/collapse cycles? Each cycle would start with a Big Bang, expand, level out, contract, and end ... 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 ... Some studies suggest that the state of the universe before the Big Bang is unknown and requires assumptions, while other studies propose scenarios like ... Until 14 billion years ago, the universe was contracting. It reached a minimum size at the Big Bang (which we call t = 0) and has been expanding ever since. ( ... 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 ... 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 ... one may meaningfully ask what happened before the bang. Also philosophers have questioned the implications that big bang cosmology may have for time's beginning ...