The Role of Philosophy in Cosmology

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 ... 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”. By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at ... Aug 30, 2019 ... Will science rebuff a biblical claim? Let's look at this discovery and see what it tells us about the universe and how well the Bible describes ... Jan 5, 2022 ... All matter will eventually be consumed by monstrous black holes, which in their turn will evaporate away into the dimmest glimmers of light. Apr 9, 2008 ... Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. 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 ... Dec 10, 2008 ... ... the universe. As its equations cannot cope with such infinities, general relativity fails to describe what happens at the big bang. Mar 31, 2020 ... Understanding how the universe began has been a goal for scientists, philosophers, and theologians for millennia. Aug 26, 2018 ... ... big bang is, argue: “Well, can you tell me what happened 10 seconds before the Big Bang?” “What caused it? Something must have caused it ...