| 单词 | big bang |
| 例句 | The work of Lifshitz and Khalatnikov was valuable because it showed that the universe could have had a singularity, a big bang, if the general theory of relativity was correct. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This event—the big bang—was a horrible idea to many scientists and philosophers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For a time, big bang theory and steady-state theory lived side by side, alternatives that astronomers chose between depending on their philosophy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They argued that since there seemed to be infinitely more Friedmann-like models without a big bang singularity than there were with one, we should conclude that there had not in reality been a big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the singularity theorems of classical general relativity, there would still have been a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I stand up so fast that my chair tips over backward with a big bang. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the big bang and other singularities, all the laws would have broken down, so God would still have had complete freedom to choose what happened and how the universe began. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Could quantum me- chanics have an equally dramatic effect on the big bang and big crunch singularities? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We accept the theory of the big bang by watching a movie of expanding space running backwards. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This means that even if there were events before the big bang, one could not use them to determine what would happen afterward, because predictability would break down at the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to “explain” why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago—it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As they expanded, the energy of the field in them would slowly decrease until the inflationary expansion changed to an expansion like that in the hot big bang model. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hubble’s observations suggested that there was a time, called the big bang, when the universe was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This cosmic background radiation was the afterglow of the big bang. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They suggested that the big bang might be a peculiarity of Friedmann’s models alone, which after all were only approximations to the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The big bang, the most puzzling event in the history of the universe, is a zero in both theories. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The consequences that these would have for black holes and the big bang will be described in later chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So in the end our work became generally accepted and nowadays nearly everyone assumes that the universe started with a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1965 several astrophysicists at Princeton University were calculating what would have happened right after the big bang. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Humans would understand the cosmic whim that created the big bang. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It would give physicists the first direct evidence that the big bang was correct and that steady state was wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This means that the initial state of the universe must have been very carefully chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z But Gran didn’t tolerate ideas like evolution or the big bang theory, despite the evidence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If the expansion is slowing down rapidly, then it’s a good sign that the energy from the big bang is nearly spent; our universe would be heading for a big crunch. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At first sight, Penrose’s result applied only to stars; it didn’t have anything to say about the question of whether the entire universe had a big bang singularity in its past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, all our theories of science are formulated on the assumption that space-time is smooth and nearly flat, so they break down at the big bang singularity, where the curvature of space-time is infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Within only a few hours of the big bang, the production of helium and other elements would have stopped. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the general theory of relativity, there must have been a state of infinite density in the past, the big bang, which would have been an effective beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As unappealing as the idea of a finite universe was, physicists gradually accepted the big bang and agreed that the universe had a beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand the big bang, physicists must marry quantum theory with relativity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You could tell old Spencer'd got a big bang out of buying it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z However, it did not resolve the crucial question: Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As explained before, this means that one might as well cut the big bang, and any events before it, out of the theory, because they can have no effect on what we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is rather like the big bang at the beginning of time, only it would be an end of time for the collapsing body and the astronaut. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One glimmer of hope remained, one alternative to the big bang: steady-state theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Correspondingly, if, as is the case, we know only what has happened since the big bang, we could not determine what happened beforehand. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And the most profound problems in physics—the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the big bang—are struggles to defeat zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The general theory of relativity, on its own, cannot explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if there is enough mass—galaxies, galaxy clusters, and unseen dark matter—the initial push given by the big bang wouldn’t be enough to allow the balloon to inflate forever. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At the big bang itself the universe is thought to have had zero size, and so to have been infinitely hot. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The deflation would get faster and faster, the universe would get hotter and hotter, and it would eventually end in a backward big bang: the big crunch. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z More troubling still, where did the singularity of the big bang come from? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One may say that time had a beginning at the big bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, which we call the big bang, the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Not with the big bang that birthed them, but with a whimper and a gasp. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z About one hundred seconds after the big bang, the temperature would have fallen to one thousand million degrees, the temperature inside the hottest stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Space-time would have a boundary—a beginning at the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The big bang had been spotted; the myth of the static universe was dead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One second after the big bang, it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We are therefore fairly confident that we have the right picture, at least back to about one second after the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the primal zero, the birthplace of the universe: the big bang, a furious explosion that created the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In either case, get ready for a really big bang. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was the scream of light from the big bang, stretched and distorted into a whisper's hiss. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The big bang thus provides no insight into what might have powered the bang itself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Guth suggested that the universe started out from the big bang in a very hot, but rather chaotic, state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, of all the models that were roughly like the real universe, only Friedmann’s would contain a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The big bang creation from the void is a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the UK this would mean a partial reversal of Thatcher's "big bang" of the 1980s, which set the City free from previous financial controls. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z To my ear, Young has revisited his student exercise — the original Minimalist big bang when it comes to sustained tones — and made space for greater feeling, and more emotional release. Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s the eclecticism that is the big bang here. A Shopper's Guide to Antique Chests 2012-10-29T05:20:13.863Z One of the first physicists to realize that the big bang could not have made any elements heavier than lithium was Italian Nobel-Prize winning scientist Enrico Fermi. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “In these days of concern over income inequality and trying to spread the burden progressively, this particular provision — especially applied to art — would provide a big bang for its buck,” he said. Tax Break Used by Investors in Flipping Art Faces Scrutiny 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Glyndebourne's new production, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, began with a big bang: literally, in the form of the solemn opening chords of the overture. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Indeed, Fred is even credited with coining the term “big bang.” "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The Forth of July weekend might have brought fireworks, but the holiday box office didn’t close with a big bang. Box office: 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' takes Fourth of July 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Scientists theorize that the universe began with what is known as the big bang about 13.8 billion years ago and that the first stars formed 400 million years later. NASA puts finishing touches on telescope to look to back at first stars 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z He begins by declaring the notion of the big bang to be vaguely ridiculous, and likens it to a mythopoetic bedtime story. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z True, physicists invoke the “big bang,” a massive explosion of supercondensed matter. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z There’s no reference, for example, to the big bang of taxpayer revolts — the 1978 passage of Proposition 13 and its continuing impact on California’s public universities — nor is there enough investigation of individual innovative proposals. Review: ‘Starving the Beast’ Traces the Burdens of Higher Education Defunding 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But under the right circumstances, these destinations offer a big bang for your buck. The cheap, cheaper, and cheapest vacation destinations to book this month 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The poem culminates in an illuminating double exposure: a burrowing, excavating ant-Einstein who seems to originate the big bang, causing sand crystals to explode "into white-hot radiant turbulence" – all the while genially smiling, of course. Poem of the week: Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone 2011-08-01T09:17:06Z With Hamilton turning 70 this year, the Ms. Senior Universe/USA Pageant was a way to start the year with a big bang. Ms. Senior Universe Pageant winner Marianne Hamilton celebrates achievement 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Where Peacock could use a big bang, the series mostly just manages to look like plain old cable TV. Review | Peacock arrives with a big archive and a few new shows (‘Brave New World’) that aren’t much to strut about 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z I remember the accessibility of events and getting a big bang for the buck. Forty years of Bumbershoot memories 2010-08-27T18:06:00Z That at least was the theory, with little more to back it up until 1964, when two American scientists discovered "cosmic background radiation" – the faint echo of the big bang. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z The universe supposedly arose from the big bang explosion of supercondensed matter. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z And, as Sheldon and Leonard are physicists who study matter in motion, all potential roads of inquiry lead back to the big bang. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Broun recently called embryology, evolution and the big bang theory "lies straight from the pit of hell". An American studies professor's view on The Campaign 2012-10-29T17:39:34Z However, he believes we should not conclude from this that the big bang was the beginning of the universe. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z Back in the 1940s and 1950s, physicists made the same mistake as the Barenaked Ladies and tried to explain the cosmic presence of all the chemical elements from the big bang theory alone. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The record, she explained, dealt with "the big bang": thinking her life was set, before divorce led her through denial, heartache and eventually acceptance and hope. An intimate evening with Sarah McLachlan at the Chicago Theatre 2011-03-13T17:20:00Z Nye said he, and the rest of the scientific community, believe the Earth was created by a big bang billions of years ago and people have evolved over time. Bill Nye defends evolution in Kentucky debate 2014-02-05T06:59:52Z It was like a literary big bang, one that both publishers and readers believed in. Review | All those books with ‘Lie’ in the title are there for a reason 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Well, 13.4 billion years ago when the big bang was no more than a gleam in God's eye ... Why I'm going to the Discworld convention 2010-08-26T11:20:00Z Their disgust spins out of them into what Mr. Carlin describes as a swirling “pool of hate” that expands beyond the universe and explodes in a kind of second big bang. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The dream of a "theory of everything", which might explain all of history from the instant of the big bang, assumes a law that preceded time itself. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin; Farewell to Reality by Jim Baggott – review 2013-06-10T08:00:01Z It starts with a big bang: “Hills and Clouds” towers inside the entrance of the first gallery. Lynda Benglis sculptures at Blum & Poe explode with extraterrestrial wonder 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Now, a cosmologist will tell you that he knows what was happening in the universe a trillionth of a second after the big bang but he still can't explain the bang itself. The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review 2012-10-10T12:16:01Z With each new take, a much ballyhooed document many regard as the big bang of an important strain of rootsy, laid-back American music comes more vividly into focus. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z “We wanted something really special that would have a big bang.” Inside Art: A Loan Extends Museums’ Global Reach 2014-02-13T21:01:43Z To call the Sugarhill Gang the “big bang” of hip-hop diminishes the contributions of an entire community that imagined the music at its inception. Big Bank Hank: 'Rapper's Delight' and the Sugarhill Gang's revolution 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Pornoverse: A huge enterprise that would be nothing without the big bang. Style Invitational Week 1205: Here, at least, you can take a do-over 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z She said he had just gotten home and was going downstairs to make some food for her and that she then heard a "big bang." Coleman's wife says in 911 call he has head wound 2010-06-02T22:23:00Z They soon decided that the Cultural Olympiad needed a big bang finale as its main event, hence the 12-week festival in the runup to the Olympics. Cultural Olympiad's London 2012 festival lines up arts world A-list 2010-12-07T21:08:00Z After the 'big bang' of the 1960s, they were the touchstone that inspired a wave of creative rebellion and musical ambition that revived Liverpool's music scene for a generation. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z “That will happen incrementally. That’s not going to be a big bang overnight thing.” Everything you ever wanted to know about hockey in one exhibit at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “But he just missed and there was a big bang down on the counter right near the Yank’s hand.” Tom Cruise almost had arm broken over Diet Coke confusion in pub in 1991, Irish MP claims 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Didn’t this funny thing we call existence supposedly start with some kind of big bang? Review | In the heart of an ‘empire in decline,’ Blacks’ Myths try to spark another big bang 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z As to the question of why matter is actually made of atoms, the answer also lies in the big bang. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The seminal event—the “big bang,” in Mr. McCullough’s view—was the Netscape IPO on Aug. 9, 1995, when the stock of a fairly obscure company peddling a seemingly arcane product went on sale. ‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z I sampled other worlds, peopled by creatures belonging to no known species, and I watched a blue planet like our own blow up in a re-enactment of the big bang. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z As the two-act piece proceeds, audiences may wonder if that big bang is one of apocalyptic destruction. Danish Dance Theater at the Joyce, With a Sci-Fi Look 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z "The Big Bang Theory" was again the night's overall big bang, with 16.08 million viewers and a 4.4 in the demographic. TV ratings: 'American Crime' down in second week; CBS wins the night 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Moore’s “Illuminations,” scheduled for fall 2022, takes in everything from ghosts to the big bang theory. Alan Moore working on short stories, 5-volume fantasy series 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Think of the “big bang” theory as a supercondensed hand grenade, which when it explodes sends shrapnel in all directions. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z Yeah, I guess it was kind of a big bang entry into Hollywood to just jump right into a set that size. Bonnie Piesse on "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and her neurodivergent romcom 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The Star Wars big bang created a universe that is still expanding, but never was the fiery scream of that first eruption felt more furiously than in the late 1970s. My streaming gem: why you should watch Starcrash 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Physicists such as Sheldon and Leonard claim that these two ideas—that matter is made of atoms and is also a form of frozen energy—only make sense in the light of big bang theory. "The Big Bang Theory" and real science, from Leonard's wedding vows to the "Time Machine" prop 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Science is still trying to explain how ordinary matter and energy arose from the “big bang.” Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z “Like our own universe,” Schulz writes, “the weird world of ‘1Q84’ begins with a big bang, and then, for good and for ill, keeps expanding.” ArtsBeat Blog: Books Podcast: Murakami's Expanding Universe 2011-11-04T22:08:51Z Finding them "fanciful", Penrose looked anew at the big bang, because of an unsolved mystery at its heart involving the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z When the big bang of an ending arrives, it plays more like a whimper. Quirky 'Home,' with Jim Parsons and Rihanna, keeps it too light 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Jordan E. Cooper’s new Broadway play starts with the kind of roof-raising scene most writers would have stashed away for a big bang of a finale. ‘Ain’t No Mo’’ Review: After Great Tribulation, an Exodus of Black Citizens 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The other end of the room is heavy on astronomical, geological and biological content, with a multilayered history of the universe, from the big bang to the Moon landings, flashing across the screens. Exhibition Review | 'Ouroboros: The History of the Universe': Ouroboros: At Ise Foundation, a 3-D CoTrip 2010-03-26T23:11:00Z It was a big bang moment, mixing the authenticity of Dylan with the scruffy, intense earnestness of the young acts. The Lumineers ride folk rock wave to Grammys 2013-02-04T12:31:16Z Thus we embark on a voyage through time and space, starting with the big bang and ending with the evolution of Homo sapiens 13bn years later. The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-05-04T13:00:01Z But the problem with big bang is that it's all effect and no cause, everything from nothing, which is philosophically difficult. TV review: Horizon: What Happened Before the Big Bang? and Wild Britain with Ray Mears 2010-10-12T07:00:00Z And for the last 20 years or so, the historians David Christian and Fred Spier have championed big history, urging their colleagues to begin their once-upon-a-time accounts billions of years ago, with the big bang. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z The world is a balloon, ever more inflated, heading for a big bang. TV review: Torchwood; Single-Handed 2011-07-14T21:05:07Z You'd think it would all kick off, a big bang, battle of the generations. TV review: When Teenage Meets Old Age, Mrs Brown's Boys, Glee 2011-02-22T08:01:02Z But what they thought was their big bang — the 1973 release of their first and only record as a duo — turned out to be more of a whimper. Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “Lost and Wanted” ends with its own ingenious version of a “big bang” that leaves the Helen, our dedicated woman of science, a bit more open to the tantalizing promise of that theological designation. Review | A beautiful tale of friendship, loss — and physics 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Straightforward extrapolation of the Standard Model to that primordial epoch suggests that WIMPs should have been produced in enormous numbers in the dense, hot plasma that filled the universe immediately after the big bang. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Some people support a model in which time goes back even further than the big bang. Book Excerpt: Stephen Hawking's 'The Grand Design' 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z He calls the big bang “the nuttiest theory I’ve ever heard” and invokes the Spanish Inquisition when discussing how academics have cast out proponents of intelligent design for “not believing in evolution the right way.” Tom Wolfe Looks Over His Notes 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z To hurl so much energy across billions of light-years, GRBs must be among the biggest explosions since the big bang. Cosmic blast seared Earth’s atmosphere from 2 billion light-years away 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z That poetic phrase is what astronomers call the time just a few hundred million years after the big bang when the very first stars switched on, flooding the cosmos with light. Zoomable JWST Image Brings Far-Distant Galaxies to Your Fingertips 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Just after the big bang, the universe grew exponentially, hugely magnifying tiny quantum fluctuations in a dense soup of fundamental particles. The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z In the case of stars, the paper notes that just two major elements -- hydrogen and helium -- formed the first stars shortly after the big bang. Scientists, philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z One potential explanation is that antimatter was gravitationally repelled by regular matter during the big bang, although the new findings suggest that theory no longer seems plausible. Down goes antimatter! Gravity's effect on matter's elusive twin is revealed 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z For the first few hundred thousand years after the big bang, the entire universe was a blistering and dense plasma similar to the sun’s interior, with spots of heat that emanated pressure waves. Ho’oleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z According to the Standard Model of physics, the big bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The temperature of the CMB varies ever so slightly across the sky, providing a blotchy snapshot of the universe at the moment neutral atoms formed, 380,000 years after the big bang. The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Stimulus measures so far were "nothing really with a big bang effect to get the economy going," he added. Recession risk "coin flip" over the next year - PIMCO 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Tyler referenced those assaults during Saturday’s show, recalling them as “the big bang theory” before Perry shushed him. Sweet emotion in Philadelphia as Aerosmith starts its farewell tour, and fans dream on 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The hotspots themselves are thought to have arisen from a bizarre hypothetical epoch a split second after the big bang known as inflation, during which the entire universe greatly ballooned in size. Ho’oleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Astronomers have found by far the most distant and earliest quasar ever seen, a cosmic beacon shining so soon after the big bang that standard theory can’t explain how it was built. Giant black hole formed puzzlingly fast at dawn of cosmos 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z That observation spawned the idea of the big bang—and decades of bickering over the rate at which the universe is expanding, the Hubble constant. The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z The greater the energy of a collision, the closer it may come to replicating the almost incomprehensibly hot and dense conditions thought to have prevailed in the early moments after the big bang. Will Scientists Ever Find a Theory of Everything? 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z They said there was "a big bang" and the victim was "shaken up". Llanelli: Man hit by van at hotel at centre of asylum row 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z One possibility is they are the remnants of “phase transitions” in the early universe that were caused by rapid cosmic expansion shortly after the big bang. A Background ‘Hum’ Pervades the Universe. Scientists Are Racing to Find Its Source 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z That scenario starts soon after the big bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as clumps of the mysterious dark matter that pervades the universe draw in primordial gases—mostly hydrogen and helium. Giant black hole formed puzzlingly fast at dawn of cosmos 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Comparing the two lengths reveals the expansion history halfway between the big bang and now. The universe’s puzzlingly fast expansion may defy explanation, cosmologists fret 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z In the early universe, dark stars could have formed from the collapse of helium and hydrogen clouds made in the big bang. JWST Might Have Spotted the First Dark Matter Stars 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z "This is the big bang, and no one could have made it bigger or more overwhelming than Nolan," he wrote. Oppenheimer: Cillian Murphy makes powerful impact in atomic epic 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z "Everyone is looking for a big bang Politburo meeting at the end of July, it's a bit like Fed watching," said Mike Kelly, head of multi-asset at PineBridge Investments. Analysis: China's bad first half gets investors hopeful and interested 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z To grow so large compared with its host galaxy and so soon after the big bang, the quasar must have had a head start. Giant black hole formed puzzlingly fast at dawn of cosmos 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Helium’s origins go back to just a few minutes after the big bang, when hydrogen, helium and a bit of lithium were produced during what is called big bang nucleosynthesis. Some of Earth’s Most Famous Art Started with Stardust 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z But other, stranger phenomena, such as cosmic strings or massively inflated quantum fluctuations from right after the big bang, could also be contributing to the gravitational-wave background. Scientists Thrill at First Hints of Cosmic ‘Hum’ from Giant Gravitational Waves 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z He dropped it a little over a decade later when Edwin Hubble and others showed that distant galaxies were in fact being flung apart in the wake of the big bang. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z CMB-S4 aims to be the definitive ground-based study of the big bang’s lingering radiation, which is rich in clues to the universe’s origin and structure. Infrastructure woes could slow South Pole telescope plans 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Yet the telescope has another, less publicized goal in probing those earliest moments after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. At Last, Astronomers May Have Seen the Universe’s First Stars 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Did we begin with a big bang, or was there a bounce? The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z But assuming that the big bang and cosmic inflation are true, doesn't that mean there is an unavoidable loophole in every Bell test because everything was physically connected in the distant past? Readers Respond to the January 2023 Issue 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z These originated soon after the big bang when the universe was a roiling soup of gas and photons. Euclid telescope to seek source of dark energy—the biggest mystery in the universe 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z A witness said they saw a person throwing something, followed by smoke, while another said they heard a big bang. Japan PM Fumio Kishida evacuated after what appears to be smoke bomb thrown 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Once the universe had cooled and calmed sufficiently about 400,000 years after the big bang, the first atoms were able to form: hydrogen and helium. At Last, Astronomers May Have Seen the Universe’s First Stars 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The most widely accepted explanation for the history of the universe has it beginning with a big bang, followed by a period of rapid expansion known as cosmic inflation. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z As he suggests, this does imply that the big bang remains an unavoidable loophole. Readers Respond to the January 2023 Issue 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z It has a redshift value of 13.2, meaning we are seeing the galaxy as it appeared just 320 million years after the big bang. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Solving that mystery could reveal how the very first black holes and galaxies were born after the big bang. JWST’s Smashing Success Shifts Focus to Astronomy’s Blind Spots 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Some clouds of primordial gas should have persisted for some time after the big bang, perhaps hundreds of millions of years. At Last, Astronomers May Have Seen the Universe’s First Stars 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Plenty of theories describe such a bouncing universe in ways that would be difficult or impossible to distinguish from the “big bang plus inflation” model by looking at Planck CMB data. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z The new measurements suggest the dwarf galaxy may have formed billions of years after the big bang—much later than other galaxies close to ours. Mysteriously Young 'Peekaboo' Galaxy Could Reveal Secrets of Early Universe 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The galaxy is actually a dusty imposter located at a redshift of 4.9, a still impressive but not at all record-breaking 1.2 billion years after the big bang. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Passengers speaking to the BBC described hearing a “big bang” and escaping the fire that engulfed their train immediately after the collision. Train collision in Greece kills at least 43; station master arrested 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The team estimates the second-generation star they observed is more than 13 billion years old, forming just 500 million years after the big bang following the death of a Population III star. At Last, Astronomers May Have Seen the Universe’s First Stars 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z If you extrapolate back far enough, that implies a big bang–like beginning with an infinitely small amount of entropy, even for a universe that subsequently goes through cyclic bounces. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z In the first tiny fractions of a second after the big bang, the universe was too hot and dense for the strong force to bind quarks and gluons together. Tiny Bubbles of Primordial Soup Recreate Early Universe 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The team found galaxies with billions of solar masses, comparable in weight to the Milky Way, from just an estimated 750 million years after the big bang. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The simulations model dark matter and dark energy’s effects and include initial conditions that investigate how the universe expanded right after the big bang. New Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z “There was a big bang and when I came out, I saw a blast had ripped apart a car. Fifteen minutes later, there was another explosion nearby. Those injured are mostly car mechanics,” he said. Six injured in Jammu blasts before India opposition leader Gandhi arrives 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z That implies a big bang occurred at some point, even if that event happened many bouncing universes ago, which in turn suggests that it took a singularity to get everything going in the first place. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Laurence Boone said Wednesday at the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that Europe needs a “big bang” to catch up in moving to renewable and secure energy supplies. Live updates | World Economic Forum gathering in Davos 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z “Maybe galaxy formation started already at a redshift of 20,” van Dokkum says, referring to a time a mere 180 million years after the big bang, an epoch scarcely fathomable prior to JWST. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The cosmic history of the elements of the periodic table extends from a few minutes after the big bang to the present. How Star Collisions Forge the Universe’s Heaviest Elements 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Tom Lamb, part-time barman, reported hearing a "big bang" and a vehicle driving fast around a corner. Kenilworth homes evacuated after crashed car bursts gas main 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z As far as advocates of the big bang are concerned, it did. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Does this information preservation principle imply that all information was already in existence in the big bang singularity? Readers Respond to the September 2022 Issue 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Almost immediately thereafter, its unprecedented infrared sensitivity revealed the faint glows of galaxies apparently from the far-distant universe that had formed just hundreds of millions of years after the big bang. JWST’s Newfound Galaxies Are the Oldest Ever Seen 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Astronomers have meanwhile since found several other early galaxy candidates, some seemingly as far back as 200 million years post–big bang. Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z "The big attraction for reducing methane is you get a big bang for your buck very quickly in terms of tackling climate change," Professor Dave Reay from the University of Edinburgh told BBC News. Climate change: Wasted methane gas 'a scandal' 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z And because such a universe doesn’t have a beginning, there’s no big bang and no singularity. The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z And if information has only been created after the big bang, does such an information increase then reduce entropy? Readers Respond to the September 2022 Issue 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z As the article explained, one galaxy “dates to about 350 million years after the big bang,” while the other “galaxy is estimated to have existed about 400 million years after the birth of the cosmos.” Opinion | These space photos should humble us 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z For the first few hundred thousand years after the big bang, the cosmos was so hot that gravity could not pull normal matter together to form large protogalactic clumps. Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z These galaxies are far brighter than anyone expected, challenging our view of how the cosmos took shape in the aftermath of the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. Webb telescope spots earliest galaxies yet, and they are cosmic oddballs 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The pair prepared what aides called a "big bang" of measures - to hit the ground running. How big-bang economic plan and political turmoil sank Liz Truss 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He provided evidence for ideas and concepts now prominent in the public discourse, such as the big bang and black holes. Maarten Schmidt, astronomer who explained quasars, dies at 92 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z It had sifted out an object that, on closer inspection, was inexplicably massive and dated back to just 300 million years after the big bang, older than any galaxy ever seen before. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Instead gravity alone is this invisible substance’s master—meaning that in mere moments after the big bang, when primordial chaos otherwise reigned, gravity immediately began glomming together dark matter into large clumps known as halos. Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The big bang, a theory embraced by many scientists, holds that our universe began as a dense, hot bundle of matter so compact that it would have resembled a single point. Webb telescope spots earliest galaxies yet, and they are cosmic oddballs 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z On her return came the economic "big bang" she had been thinking about for years. How big-bang economic plan and political turmoil sank Liz Truss 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The big bang was the event that set everything in motion. Maarten Schmidt, astronomer who explained quasars, dies at 92 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z This is the scarcely probed era—no more than a few hundred million years after the big bang itself—in which the very first stars and galaxies coalesced. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z If such models are valid, they suggest dark energy’s influence on the universe’s expansion could have been far greater shortly after the big bang than they are today. Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z One of the two galaxies dates to about 350 million years after the big bang, making it the most distant galaxy ever discovered. Webb telescope spots earliest galaxies yet, and they are cosmic oddballs 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Ms Truss had failed, her "big bang" plan in tatters. How big-bang economic plan and political turmoil sank Liz Truss 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Hydrogen and helium produced in the big bang are the starting materials for all the visible matter in the universe, but anything heavier was forged later in stars. Carbon dioxide detected around alien world for first time 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Another team, meanwhile, found evidence for galaxies the size of our Milky Way at a redshift of 10, less than 500 million years after the big bang. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Dating back to 350 million and 450 million years after the big bang, at the time of their discovery, both galaxies were older than any others known before. Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Although 350 million years seems an unimaginably long time after the big bang, it is relatively early in the life of our universe. Webb telescope spots earliest galaxies yet, and they are cosmic oddballs 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z That someone, somewhere, had the imagination to draw a line between the big bang and the explosion of a soup dumpling filled me with a joy that no wonton alone could match. Review | Yu Noodles is a small chain that will expand your universe 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z “We can actually get a big bang for our buck by addressing climate solutions that also address the nature crisis,” Cors said. As Congress funds high-tech climate solutions, it also bets on a low-tech one: Nature 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z To understand the dilemma, a brief refresher is needed: In the first second after the big bang, our universe was an almost inconceivably hot and dense soup of primordial particles. JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Studies with Hubble have shown that the rate of star formation has been relatively constant as far back as about 600 million years after the big bang, says Charlotte Mason of the Niels Bohr Institute. Webb telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But with Webb now open for business, he can revisit his original plan to study how the first galaxies formed a few hundred million years after the big bang. A new generation of scientists gets ready to commandeer the James Webb Space Telescope 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Some of the light captured from these even more distant galaxies was emitted less than a billion years after the big bang. Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST’s First Images 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z For years, many Windows watchers thought Windows 10 would be the last big bang release of Windows, after a Microsoft employee described Windows 10 as “the last version of Windows.” Microsoft could be readying Windows 12 for 2024 in a major shakeup 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The big bang is often described as an explosion, but imagining it as an enormous fireball isn’t accurate. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This energy was left behind from the big bang, like an echo. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Hubble saw much further back than its designers ever imagined, spying a galaxy that existed just 400 million years after the big bang—3% of the universe’s current age. Webb telescope wows with first images 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Webb can, quite literally, see galaxies far, far away as they were long, long ago — just a few hundred million years after the big bang. First image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals thousands of galaxies in stunning detail 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z WIMPs would have emerged naturally after the big bang and should linger in sufficient numbers to account for dark matter, provided they are about 100 times as massive as a proton. Dark matter hunt heats up with first result from world’s biggest detector 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The big bang involved a sudden expansion of matter, energy, and space from a single point. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Astronomers think the big bang created lighter elements, mostly hydrogen and smaller amounts of elements helium, lithium, and beryllium. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinary matter is there but with no explanation of how it prevailed over antimatter after the big bang. 10 Years after the Higgs, Physicists Are Optimistic for More Discoveries 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The Sun Studio recordings are the big bang of rock ’n’ roll, the flashpoint of a brash new sound that defined a generation and inspired those that followed. Calendar Feedback Sunday, July 3 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z We now possess an excellent description of how it all started: the big bang theory has successfully explained the features of our universe. Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The kind of Hollywood explosion that might come to mind involves expansion of matter and energy within space, but during the big bang, space itself was created. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A supernova is the most energetic explosion in the universe short of the big bang. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Astronomers have detected the rotation of a galaxy dating back to just 550 million years after the big bang, when the universe was 4% of its current age. Ancient galaxy’s spin suggests universe’s first stars quickly coalesced into disks 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The “big bang” enlargement five years later showcased the bloc’s ability to widen its reach. EXPLAINER: Why Ukraine’s request to join is big test for EU 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z What’s certain is that a few hundred million years after the big bang—a blink of an eye in cosmological terms—the great shadow began to lift. Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z You may wonder how a universe can be created out of nothing, or how we can know that the big bang happened at all. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z That strain “fell exactly on the origin point of that big bang event” in the evolution of Y. pestis, Spyrou says. 800-year-old graves pinpoint where the Black Death began 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The Webb has multiple goals, including studying the earliest light in the universe, emitted a few hundred million years after the big bang. Webb Telescope hit by micrometeoroid but sustains no major damage 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z He said he stopped and turned away from the imminent collision, then heard “a big bang, like a really loud bullet shot, and the screeching.” Two students killed, another injured in crash near Oakton High 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z HD1 was shining only 320 million years after the universe’s birth in the big bang—breathtakingly close to the origin of the cosmos. Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z As for how we can know that the big bang happened at all, there are very good reasons to accept that it is indeed how our universe came to be. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead there's a big bang - one day when most of the emergency rules and regulations are simply being lifted. Shanghai lockdown: Relief and caution as city returns to life 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead there's a big bang: one day when most of the emergency rules and regulations are simply being lifted. Shanghai lockdown: China eases Covid restrictions after two months 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of the big bang, about 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was filled with a cosmic fog. New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In the universe’s “dark ages,” the few hundred million years after protons and electrons first combined to form atoms following the big bang, no stars existed to illuminate all the hydrogen gas then suffusing space. Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Physicists tell us that if the big bang happened, then particles within the universe would still be very close together at this time. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Emerging in the hot soup of particles after the big bang, WIMPs would interact with ordinary matter only through gravity and the weak nuclear force, which produces a kind of radioactive decay. To crack the mystery of dark matter, physicists turn to supersensitive quantum sensors 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The most sophisticated, the Einstein Telescope, might be able to detect hundreds of thousands of mergers per year, out to the distant reaches of the observable universe, or soon after the big bang. Dutch pledge nearly $1 billion to support underground gravitational wave detector 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Suddenly freed, light from the big bang’s afterglow flashed throughout the universe, which then faded back to darkness because stars had yet to form. New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z “There was sort of a big bang of sanctions in the first 10 days of Putin’s declaration of war … but I think pressure has leveled off in the last few weeks,” he said. Despite Western sanctions, Russian ruble and banks are recovering 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z We know that the big bang made hydrogen, helium, and lithium, but where did the rest of the elements come from? Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The big bang made not a whimper, let alone a bang. Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z That moment in the subway provided the big bang of this book. Review | Compassionate portraits of people with faith — in aliens, ghosts and God 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Starting from circa 400,000 years after the big bang—before the first stars are thought to have emerged—the simulation extrapolates out through the first billion years of cosmic history. New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z "I saw a man firing at two policemen before he entered the mosque. Seconds later I heard a big bang," said one witness Zahid Khan, AFP news agency reports. Pakistan bombing kills dozens in Shia mosque in Peshawar 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In fact, this is exactly what we see when we look at light from 375,000 years after the big bang. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Primary school teacher Lucy Sloan described hearing a "big bang" before being ushered away by security. Storm Eunice: O2 arena's roof shredded in high winds 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z ‘The Tree of Life’ What do Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, the big bang, dinosaurs, the Old Testament and a filmmaker’s childhood in suburban 1950s Texas all have in common? Classic movies in SoCal: ‘Lincoln,’ ‘The Searchers,’ ‘Prisoner of Azkaban,’ ‘Up’ and more 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z "We are not going for a big bang." Nissan plans EVs for Mississippi, scouts for a U.S. battery plant 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Re-examining "each individual one may not cause a big bang", said a government source, "but, when built up together, it will create benefits". What will Jacob Rees-Mogg do in his new job? 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z The expansion that started with the big bang never stopped. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z These researchers rely on the cosmic microwave background, a residual glow of radiation from roughly 400,000 years after the big bang. The James Webb Space Telescope Could Solve One of Cosmology’s Deepest Mysteries 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z After a big bang and two spurts of gunfire, Akram was dead. Angry outbursts and cool determination: Inside the synagogue attacker’s 18-day journey to terror 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z By observing at those cold temperatures, the telescope can capture light emitted just a couple hundred million years after the big bang, estimated at 13.8 billion years ago. Webb telescope arrives at outpost 1 million miles from Earth to begin study of distant galaxies 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z “We were talking with family and relatives, because they were excitedly showing us the volcano’s activities, then we heard the explosion and the big bang and everything went dark,” he said. Cut off by volcano, Tongans relieved as contact restored 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Evidence for the big bang is the cosmic “afterglow” from when the universe was still very dense, and red-shifted light from distant galaxies, which tell us the universe is still expanding. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the earliest moments of the big bang, the entire universe was phenomenally small and dense—a situation that calls for quantum gravity to describe it. What Is Spacetime Really Made Of? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z “That would help us constrain some of the big bang models.” U.S. and Chinese Scientists Propose Bold New Missions beyond the Solar System 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Now we may finally learn just how we ended up here, in 2022, nearly 13.8 billion years after the big bang. Opinion | The Webb Space Telescope launch was a fitting end to 2021 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z “I was with my cattle when I heard a big bang,” said Maleeha in a low, shy voice. Along Afghanistan’s ‘highway of death,’ the bombs are gone but suffering has deepened The big bang produced hydrogen, helium, and lithium, but heavier elements come from nuclear fusion reactions in stars. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The ultimate objective is to penetrate the era of first light — a transitional period, less than 300 million years after the big bang, when the expanding, cooling universe was illuminated by the first stars. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, poised to launch, will open a new window on the cosmos — if everything goes just right A ‘big bang’ move is ruled out, however. EU watchdog to simplify data reporting for banks 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Almost every one of the 3000 objects that popped into view was a distant galaxy, shining from times as early as 1.5 billion years after the big bang. On the launch pad at last, NASA’s Webb telescope will probe first stars and weather on alien worlds 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z With hit western cable drama ‘Yellowstone,’ ViacomCBS hopes it has found the big bang for another universe of content that could boost subscribers for Paramount+. Disney+ added just 2 million subscribers last quarter. Here's why 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z At the start of the big bang, the universe was too hot and dense to be anything but a sizzle of particles smaller than atoms, but as it expanded, it also cooled. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A: I still think it is politically possible, but I think it’s not going to be done in one big bang in Glasgow. Physicist-turned-climate adviser says developing countries will be seeking money at U.N. climate talks 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z He says the big bang theory is a “paradigm-smashing concept to end all paradigm-smashing concepts” because it demonstrates that the universe had a beginning. Evangelical author declares atheism dead, argues science refutes unbelief 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “Finding the first aggregations of stars may tell us more about what was leftover after the big bang,” she says. On the launch pad at last, NASA’s Webb telescope will probe first stars and weather on alien worlds 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “And that’s why we do not plan an approach where we reopen in a big bang manner, and just declare freedom.” They Had the Vaccines and a Plan to Reopen. Instead They Got Cold Feet. 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z What was born must die, and according to the big bang theory, our cosmos was born 14 billion years ago, and it will die at some unspecified time in the far future. Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The big bang was created by O’Toole’s effort to moderate his party’s image. Opinion | In Canada, challenges for both the right and left 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The Emmys ended with a big bang after an evening in which television’s biggest shows and stars were highlighted in show-stopping fashion thanks to host Cedric the Entertainer. Emmy winners Kate Winslet, Jason Sudeikis’ celebrations will include getting 'drunk' and cast Zoom calls 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z A major coup for Webb would be spotting evidence for first-generation stars, known as population III stars, formed from the primordial hydrogen and helium gas leftover from the big bang. On the launch pad at last, NASA’s Webb telescope will probe first stars and weather on alien worlds 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z These light particles would have been produced in huge numbers after the big bang and might have had a measurable effect on cosmic expansion. Weird Muons May Point to New Particles and Forces of Nature 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z "So in the next phase, we will move step by step not in one big bang like some countries but cautiously and progressively, feeling our way forward," Lee added. PM says Singapore must remain open as anxiety over job competition grows 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z On a BBC radio show in March 1949, he dubbed such a sudden genesis the “big bang”—a name that stuck. When Physicists Follow their Guts 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z So how can quantum mechanics, if it’s a theory of information rather than matter and energy, apply to the entire cosmos since the big bang? What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Roughly 400,000 years after the big bang, the universe had cooled enough for protons to hook up with electrons. On the launch pad at last, NASA’s Webb telescope will probe first stars and weather on alien worlds 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Science has already yielded lots of answers, including the theory of evolution, the genetic code, quantum mechanics, general relativity and the big bang theory. What Is a Question? 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z “Any policy changes should be incremental in nature instead of a ‘big bang’ so as not to disturb the critically important agency mortgage market and thereby the housing economy,” Rajadhyaksha said. Biden to oust Trump-appointed Fannie-Freddie regulator after Supreme Court ruling 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The theory holds that our increasingly vacuous cosmos will eventually produce a singularity, a rupture in spacetime similar to the big bang. Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z “Playing Indian is a persistent tradition in American culture,” he writes, “stretching from the very instant of the national big bang into an ever-expanding present and future.” The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Astronomers have found quasars less than 700 million years after the big bang, but many think they are too few and far between to evenly ionize all of space. On the launch pad at last, NASA’s Webb telescope will probe first stars and weather on alien worlds 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “The move from September to May opens summer with a big bang,” Ashley Murray, a commercial vendor of sunglasses hats and jewelry at the fair since 1983, said in a statement. L.A. County Fair is moving from scorching September to cooler May 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The big bang seeded the universe with just a few light elements: hydrogen, some helium, and trace amounts of lithium. Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Better yet, according to Penrose and a collaborator, each new universe can pass on its accumulated information to the next in the form of the cosmic microwave radiation left over from its big bang. Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z One idea still in the running is that the missing matter is made of primordial black holes that formed soon after the big bang. Dark Matter’s Last Stand 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Or did black holes form directly from collapsing clouds of gas after the big bang? On the launch pad at last, NASA’s Webb telescope will probe first stars and weather on alien worlds 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z With her program, Kartaltepe and her colleagues intend to study thousands of the earliest galaxies in the universe, all of which formed within a billion years of the big bang. The James Webb Space Telescope’s First Year of Extraordinary Science Has Been Revealed 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Physicists assume the stuff consists of some sort of elementary particle lingering from the big bang. Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Deutsch thus dismisses my claim in The End of Science that science might not yield any more insights into nature as profound as evolution, quantum mechanics and the big bang. Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Shielded from Earth's radiation, it's an ideal place to look for signs of the universe's dark ages, the first few hundred million years after the big bang. How to Be an Effective Science Communicator 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z A personal favorite is the big bang theory, which is easy to explain. Hearing about the Big Bang for the First Time 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z One-time astronomical events like the big bang, however, are of great value since they allow reproducible scientific studies of their consequences. To Qualify as 'Scientific,' Evidence Has to Be Reproducible 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z For more than 100 million years after the big bang, the universe was dark. An illuminating — and entertaining — look at the earliest stars of our cosmos 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Residents in the Bude area in Cornwall started saying on social media at about 12:15 GMT that they heard "a big bang", an "explosion" or "rumblings". Sonic boom heard over north Cornwall and Devon 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Shortly after the big bang, three of the four known forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear force—would have been smushed together into one superforce. Galaxy-Size Gravitational-Wave Detector Hints at Exotic Physics 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z I like saying “afterglow of the big bang” while wriggling my fingers evocatively. Hearing about the Big Bang for the First Time 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z And they suggest that a small number of dark matter halos capable of initiating star formation show up just 40 million years after the big bang. Giant Galaxies from the Universe’s Childhood Challenge Cosmic Origin Stories 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The first stars formed as early as a tenth of a billion years after the big bang. The Cosmic Dawn of Technology 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Also, one electron and half a billion photons and neutrinos, all left over from the big bang. Endless Creation Out of Nothing 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z “Expecting a big bang on trade under Biden is unrealistic. Buy America will still be there. The tariffs will not just disappear,” said an EU official working on trade. Analysis: EU sees no abrupt end to Trump tariffs when Biden takes charge 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z I might throw in a story about the maverick astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, who coined the phrase “big bang” but never accepted the theory; and about Stephen Hawking, whom I once held in my arms. Hearing about the Big Bang for the First Time 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z We believe in the bedrock theories of science—quantum mechanics, relativity, the big bang, the theory of evolution, the genetic code—because scientists have amassed overwhelming evidence for them. Distrust Authorities, Including Me 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The possibilities might be even grander beyond our cosmic horizon and before the big bang. The Cosmic Dawn of Technology 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Since the atomists were wrong and emptiness is nowhere to be found, what was there before the big bang? Endless Creation Out of Nothing 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z The big bang left ripples in the dark matter, which under its own gravity began to coalesce into the denser spots. To explain away dark matter, gravity would have to be really weird, cosmologists say 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z This convoluted system was thus not created in a big bang of malfeasance or ineptitude but mostly through piecemeal changes that increasingly complicated the tax code. Trump’s tax bills are what happens when government tries to make policy through the tax code 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Analysis of the cosmic microwave background radiation—the fading afterglow of the big bang discovered in the late 1960s—indicated that the universe erupted into existence in an astonishingly uniform state. In Memoriam: John D. Barrow 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Dennis Molla, who lives in the home, told local media he awoke to “a big bang” and went outside to find his garage on fire. Minnesota Trump supporters awaken to find their garage on fire, ‘Biden 2020’ graffiti 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z What exactly set off the big bang that started our universe? How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The waves continued to spread until the universe cooled enough to form neutral atoms, 380,000 years after the big bang, when the CMB was born. To explain away dark matter, gravity would have to be really weird, cosmologists say 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Instead of a big bang, this would mean Macron is actively working to turn Beirut’s blast into a backward-propelling force – surely a recipe for increased discontent and further turmoil. Beirut's devastating blast has not shaken the ruling class's grip on Lebanon | Gilbert Achcar 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Although the big bang hypothesis for the origin of the universe was well established, the originating event itself remained a mystery; in particular, there was puzzlement about the initial conditions. In Memoriam: John D. Barrow 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z I don't mean quantum parallel stuff but other big bang results beyond our own. Readers Respond to the March 2020 Issue 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z The finding tipped the balance firmly in favor of the big bang picture of cosmology. How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z And indeed, measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation suggest that the universe spread evenly following the big bang. The Beautiful, Irregular Universe 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Witnessed just 1.5 billion years after the big bang, when the universe was some 10 percent of its current age, the spinning disk of gas and stars is the earliest of its type ever identified. Astronomers Get Earliest Ever Glimpse of Ancient Giant Galaxy 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Hence, observers should lead the way, including through the challenging pursuit of gravitational waves from the big bang singularity. In Search of Naked Singularities 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z “We’ll put the crew to sleep and work it. Then another controller said the crew reported a pretty big bang.” Apollo 13’s Astronauts Survived Disaster 50 Years Ago. Could It Happen Again? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The big bang also does for cosmology what evolution does for biology: it provides cohesion, meaning, a unifying narrative. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z But it would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country — or certainly most of our country. Trump fails the test: Yet more evidence he has no idea what he's doing 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, Trump said he would like to reopen the U.S. economy with a “big bang” but not before the death toll is headed downward. Michigan governor extends state shutdown through April 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Trump on Wednesday said he hoped to reopen the economy with a “big bang” once the death toll from the virus is on the downslope. Mnuchin says U.S. economy could open in May, defying experts 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z At the same briefing, President Donald Trump said he would like to reopen the U.S. economy with a “big bang” but not before the death toll is on the down slope. U.S. urged to go slow on easing coronavirus lockdown, even as jobless claims surge 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z But the big bang theory has absorbed this finding, just as evolutionary theory absorbed the discovery of the double helix. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z President Trump on Wednesday said it would be nice to be able to reopen the country “with a big bang.” Dr. Anthony Fauci: Summer of beach-going, baseball, weddings ‘can be in the cards’ 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z “It would be nice to be able to open with a big bang,” Mr. Trump said. Trump touts improving coronavirus models: ‘Soon we’ll be over that curve’ 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump said he would like to reopen the U.S. economy with a “big bang” but that the death toll from the coronavirus first needs to be on the down slope. Asia shares set to follow Wall Street's rally 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z You’ve heard of the “big bang” theory regarding the start of the universe? Blast similar to ‘big bang’ detected far, far away, study says 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Yet Hoyle's stubborn refusal to accept the big bang theory--and his adherence to fringe ideas in other fields--made him an outlaw in the field he had helped to create. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z He is not wrong: for Tepley, the Force is the energy that underlines our entire existence; Thompson thinks it accounts for miracles; Jay believes it might have been responsible for the big bang. ‘You have to face the darkness within you’: meet the real-life Jedi knights 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z If it did, living on such a planet would be truly surreal, with the black hole filling nearly half the sky and concentrating leftover photons from the big bang into a pseudosun. Could a habitable planet orbit a black hole? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the Wall Street Journal that the Phase 2 trade deal with China would not necessarily be a “big bang” that removes all existing tariffs. Futures lower as China virus outbreak, growth fears sour mood 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Spitzer and Hubble see it as it was not long after the big bang, which occurred about 13.8 billion years ago. Why the Spitzer Space Telescope Matters 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Rather than one big bang, he said, there were many little bangs occurring in pre-existing space and time. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “It was awful. He must have pulled the trigger. There was a big bang and he fell on the bed.” Mary Tyler Moore was 'devastated,’ plagued with guilt over her son’s tragic death, book claims 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z If another bubble collided with ours, telltale marks might appear in the cosmic background radiation left over from the big bang. Long Live the Multiverse! 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The number of universes created since the big bang, Carroll estimates, is 2 to the power of 10 to the power of 112. Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Since then anything has seemed possible to me, and my first three novels, about global revolution, the metropolises of New York, Johannesburg and indeed Berlin, emerged from the big bang that atomised the Berlin Wall. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z But he insisted that recent versions of the big bang theory, which posit the existence of inflation, dark matter and other exotica, are much more deeply flawed. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Light elements like hydrogen and helium formed during the big bang, and those up to iron are made by fusion in the cores of stars. Some of the universe’s heavier elements are created by neutron star collisions 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z They begin with the origins of our universe, 13.8 billion years ago, in what cosmologists call the “big bang.” A Science-Based Origin Story for a Planet-Changing Species 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea. Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z There are strong scientists, too, those who are seeking to misread and therefore to transcend quantum mechanics or the big bang theory or Darwinian evolution. How Harold Bloom, the Late Literary Critic, Helped Me Write The End of Science 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In the future, new observations will surely force cosmologists to tweak the big bang theory. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z This simple idea, though, is known to break down in at least two extreme conditions: when we extrapolate big bang cosmology to its initial moments and in the central interior of black holes. The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Big history courses tell how, from a simple mist of hydrogen and helium atoms, gravity sculpted the first stars and galaxies, a few hundred million years after the big bang. A Science-Based Origin Story for a Planet-Changing Species 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But despite this compelling chain of logic, few scientists at the time took the big bang theory seriously. A Well-Deserved Physics Nobel 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z As empirical science ossifies, journalists such as myself, who feed society’s hunger, will come under more pressure to tout theories that supposedly transcend quantum mechanics or the big bang theory or natural selection. How Harold Bloom, the Late Literary Critic, Helped Me Write The End of Science 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Hoyle stopped promoting the steady-state theory after the discovery of the microwave background radiation in the early 1960's seemed to provide conclusive evidence for the big bang. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z That the universe is expanding and cooling is the essence of the big bang theory. Making Sense of Modern Cosmology 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Peebles studied the temperature of the cosmic microwave background to understand the matter that was created in the big bang. Nobel Prize in physics awarded for research on exoplanets and the structure of the universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z To be precise, the time elapsed since the big bang is a function of the present value of Hubble’s constant and its rate of change. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Beginning in the 1960s, Peebles used theoretical tools and calculations to trace the evolution of the universe from the big bang almost 14 billion years ago. Physics Nobel honors the discovery of exoplanets and the evolution of the universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Theorists had predicted that the big bang would produce a microwave afterglow. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z The big bang theory is no longer seriously questioned; it fits together too well. Making Sense of Modern Cosmology 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “His work ranged from the big bang to quantum mechanics to the true nature of dark matter. I am extremely happy with this prize.” Nobel Prize in physics awarded for research on exoplanets and the structure of the universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Estimates of the expansion time provide an important test for the big bang model of the universe. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z They later realised its true origins: the afterglow of the big bang. What's the point of Nobel prizes? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The longer that Hoyle spoke, however, the more I began to wonder if he sincerely doubted the big bang. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Howe’s poems assert that there is no meaning to be tracked back to an original cause: “No big bang, no beginning.” Fanny Howe Makes Sense of Beginnings and Endings 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Homeowner Edward Sudduth said they "were just watching television and then all of a sudden, we heard a big bang." Mountain lion breaks into California home, gets cornered in bathroom before jumping out second floor window 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The interpretation is that the radiation uniformly fills space, as predicted in the big bang cosmology. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z All the matter in the universe was created some 13.8 billion years ago, in a fraction of a second after the big bang. Drenchable Drones, Prickly Cells and Face-Tracked Chimps: Science GIFs to Start Your Week 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It was 1963, and during an astronomy conference Hoyle fell into a conversation with Robert Dicke, a physicist who was planning to search for the cosmic microwaves predicted by the big bang model. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “Internet access, and the emergence of the Web, was my generation’s big bang,” he writes. Review: Edward Snowden and the Rise of Whistle-Blower Culture in “Permanent Record” 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z More ambitiously, scientists also think it might be possible to someday see primordial gravitational waves, left over from the first fractions of a second after the big bang. The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z In the near future, we expect new experiments to provide a better understanding of the big bang. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Just after the big bang, glowing plasma—hot, ionized gas—filled the expanding universe. Drenchable Drones, Prickly Cells and Face-Tracked Chimps: Science GIFs to Start Your Week 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Will cosmology undergo a paradigm shift that leaves the big bang behind? Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z These ripples began as sound waves that washed through the universe in the 400,000 years after the big bang, when it was a swirling mass of particles and energy. Robot detector to map cosmos for clues to dark energy 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Schwimmer said in June that big bang exchange mergers are hard given political opposition to opening up bourses to foreign ownership, leading to “painful failures”. Factbox: How the LSE and HKEX stack up 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z We will also continue to study issues that the big bang cosmology does not address. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z After all, in the 1960s physicists confirmed the big bang theory and took steps toward a unified theory of all of nature’s forces, while biologists deciphered the genetic code. The Delusion of Scientific Omniscience 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z But just as Darwinian theory has endured in spite of countless revisions, so will the big bang theory—not, as Hoyle claimed, because science is “locked into paradigms,” but because it is true. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “Then I saw a huge flame, and then a big bang.” One Minute It Was an Afghan Wedding. The Next, a Funeral for 63. 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z And when we think about gravity, what comes to mind isn’t black holes or the big bang but airplanes and apples and us. Bridging a Binary Universe 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The big bang theory is supported by a wealth of evidence: it explains the cosmic background radiation, the abundances of light elements and the Hubble expansion. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z "There are always niches that open up in the smartphone market but they tend to be 'firework products', starting with a big bang and quickly disappearing." TikTok owner ByteDance developing smartphone 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z One irony of modern science is that Hoyle coined the term "big bang" in 1950 while he was doing a series of radio lectures on astronomy. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z On one side are cosmologists who gather data from the greatest distances, such as a map of the big bang’s afterglow recorded by the European satellite Planck. Debate intensifies over speed of expanding universe 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The honest ones will attest that the closer this navel-gaze is to the initial big bang of Things Going South, the more error-prone it will be. Yes, we landed on the moon. If you don’t believe it, try telling an astronaut. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Thus, any new cosmology surely will include the big bang picture. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z But just as the big bang theory absorbed the startling discovery two decades ago that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, so evolutionary theory has easily encompassed horizontal gene transfer. Was Darwin Wrong? 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z That is not to say that the big bang can explain everything, any more than evolutionary theory can. Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z The same problem applies when cosmologists rewind the film reel of the universe’s expansion for the past 13 billion years and reach the very beginning of time and space, the so-called big bang. 100 years ago, an eclipse changed the known laws of physics and made Einstein Einstein 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z I lead them on a guided visualization of the Milky Way, and on through gulfs of time and space towards the big bang. Tibetan Monks Meet Science near the Roof of the World 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Our best e›orts to explain this wealth of data are embodied in a theory known as the standard cosmological model or the big bang cosmology. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Returning to the biology/cosmology analogy, evolution by natural selection and the big bang theory provide the basic frameworks for understanding life and the universe, respectively. Was Darwin Wrong? 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The first issue in October 1945 provoked a big bang in journalism and politics, and not just in France. Les Temps Modernes: Paris mourns passing of the intellectual left’s bible 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Marion, who lives near the intersection, said he was sleeping when he was waked by a “big bang.” Local Digest: A pedestrian is fatally struck by a vehicle in Southeast D.C. 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “We’ve always in science learned that perspective, evolution and the big bang,” Morgan Guess said. A conservative Christian group is pushing Bible classes in public schools nationwide — and it’s working 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z At present, there are no fundamental challenges to the big bang theory, although there are certainly unresolved issues within the theory itself. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Previously, Microsoft delivered “big bang” Windows upgrades every three years or so, and these created disruptions of the sort you are facing now. Will I be forced to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10? 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The big bang hypothesis itself originally emerged as an indirect consequence of general relativity undergoing remodeling. Cosmology Has Some Big Problems 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Frank Kuin, a Montreal-based journalist, was in a Seattle hotel lobby when he heard a “big bang” and felt the floor shake. Seattle college says student was among those killed by crane 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z No matter how you feel about it personally or politically, “Game of Thrones” is a masterwork, the zenith of the 21st century big bang that remade television. Is ‘Game of Thrones’ TV’s greatest show of all time? Yes, it is 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Astronomers are not sure, for example, how the galaxies were formed, but there is no reason to think the process did not occur within the framework of the big bang. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z “But I gather from the Attorney General’s letter that it’s most likely to resemble a postmodern novel, like DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’—one in which there isn’t a big bang at the end.” Robert Mueller, Best-Seller? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The aim, says Keith Vanderlinde of the University of Toronto, was to map ripples in the density of matter created soon after the big bang and chart their expansion over cosmic history. A homespun Canadian telescope could explain mysterious radio signals from the distant universe 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But Einstein’s theory and the space-time concept break down inside black holes and at the moment of the big bang. A Different Kind of Theory of Everything 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z It was the immediate aftermath of the big bang, and the universe was filled with a torrid plasma—an energetic soup of particles and radiation. Have We Mismeasured the Universe? 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Yet the big bang model goes only so far, and many fundamental mysteries remain. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z It indicates the rate of expansion during the cosmic epoch that followed the big bang, which the CMB would reflect, was radically different from what cosmologists currently believe it to be. The Universe's Fate Rests on the Hubble Constant--Which Has So Far Eluded Astronomers 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z So unlike crosstown rivals Ford and General Motors, he doesn’t expect any “big bang event.” Fiat Chrysler CEO says company strong enough to stand alone 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The accompanying graphic “Chain of Improbable Coincidences” lacks one component: at the moment of the big bang, all the laws of nature happened to exist from the get-go. Readers Respond to the September 2018 Issue 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Any cool tips to add some big bang for the buck on this small project? In need of big ideas for a little remodel job | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Fred Hoyle, an English cosmologist, was the first to call this process the big bang. The Evolution of the Universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The technique allowed astrophysicists to construct a history of star formation: Star births peaked about 3 billion years after the big bang, as members of the international Fermi-LAT Collaboration reported Thursday in the journal Science. Astrophysicists count all the starlight in the universe 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The first stars flickered into being a few hundred million years after the big bang. Astronomers measure total starlight emitted over 13.7bn years 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z But a new study that scrutinizes the radiation from blazing quasars suggests a far more precise answer: some 3 billion to 4 billion years after the big bang. Blazing quasars reveal the universe hit ‘peak star birth’ 3 billion to 4 billion years after the big bang 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z But a new study that scrutinizes the radiation from blazing quasars suggests a far more precise answer: some 3 million to 4 billion years after the big bang. Blazing quasars reveal the universe hit ‘peak star birth’ 3 million to 4 million years after the big bang 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Is the cosmos governed by strict physical laws that determine its fate from the big bang until the end of time? Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “It encodes the stars' formation history from the end of the ‘cosmic Dark Ages,' hundreds million years after the big bang, up to present day.” Astrophysicists count all the starlight in the universe 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “Sadly, I think the Bush v. Gore decision back in 2000 was the big bang that began this process,” said Barry Burden, who directs the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin. What happened to the goal of getting everyone to vote? Depends on your party 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The change is designed to redress the historical neglect of Georges Lemaître, a Belgian astronomer and priest who in 1927 discovered the expanding universe—which also suggests a big bang. Move over, Hubble: Discovery of expanding cosmos assigned to little-known Belgian astronomer-priest 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang.” Leicester City soccer club owner was on crashed helicopter: BBC 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The accepted story of our galaxy goes like this: Soon after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago, dark matter coalesced under its own gravity into a cosmic web of clumps and filaments. Streams of stars reveal the galaxy’s violent history—and perhaps its unseen dark matter 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Without knowing what happened before the big bang, our existential perspective is incomplete. The Fate of Free Will: When Science Crosses Swords with Philosophy 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s designed to simulate the cooling effects of a volcanic eruption, but “without all the ash and the big bang” said Pasztor. 'Rain dancing 2.0': should humans be using tech to control the weather? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Popper then plunged into a technical critique of the big bang theory. The Paradox of Karl Popper 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z In search of the graviton, physicists are now turning to experiments involving microscopic superconductors, free-falling crystals and the afterglow of the big bang. Is Gravity Quantum? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z And in the beginning, there was a big bang. ‘They took our leader away’ – how Spain’s World Cup unravelled | Sid Lowe 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He goes wide, very wide, panning from the big bang to last Tuesday. Review | A journey through billions of years that nails home the point: Life is a miracle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The big bang generated only hydrogen and a bit of helium. Discovery of middleweight black holes could explain origin of million-solar-mass monster 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z We are all familiar with the big bang theory, which involves a kind of explosion that blossomed into the universe. A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z They represent the only breakdown sites accessible to experimentalists, since the only other known singularity, the big bang, is believed to be invisible due to the vast expansion that occurred afterwards during cosmic inflation. Maybe We Could "See" a Singularity After All 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Gravitational waves might even provide a window into what happened in the first few moments after the big bang. Here Come the Waves 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z “Gravitational waves might even provide a window into what happened in the first few moments after the big bang,” Castelvecchi writes. The Ripple Effect 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The new report notes that it's probably not a coincidence that the estimated dates for the emergence of the chytrid pandemic is roughly the same period as the “big bang” in international trade. Exotic pet trade linked to invasive fungus that’s killing frogs globally 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z What inspired you and Hawking to use a new and different approach to looking at the big bang? A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z However, a separate estimate of Hubble comes from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background, relic radiation that allows scientists to calculate how quickly the universe was expanding 300,000 years after the big bang. The answer to life, the universe and everything might be 73. Or 67 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z If scientists are lucky, gravitational waves might even let them access the physics of the big bang itself at epochs that are not observable by any other means. Here Come the Waves 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The galaxy essential to our solar system and our life was formed in the time since the big bang only because of the existence of dark matter. What Is Dark Matter? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z So is this the end for eternal inflation and the big bang singularity? Stephen Hawking's (almost) last paper: putting an end to the beginning of the universe 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z In this formulation the big bang was literally the beginning of time. A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Later measurements of the cosmic microwave background—the afterglow of the big bang—also hinted at dark energy's effects in the early universe. The Milky Way, Revealed as Never Before 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The light from the merger began travelling to us 1.4bn years after the big bang, when the universe was just a tenth of its current age. The largest thing in the universe? Cosmic collision 12bn years ago created mega-galaxy 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The administration favors what one person called a “big bang” approach, in which major concessions would be made by each side early on. Trump Will Tell Kim Jong Un That Dismantling Nukes Must Precede Economic Benefits 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The big bang theory and out-of-African hypothesis don’t boost gross national product, but they deepen our understanding of the world and of ourselves. Is Science Hitting a Wall? 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The big bang was what people called a singularity—a point of infinite mass and density for which existing theories fall apart. A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “This portfolio was the big bang in her career. Even though she is no longer with us, her work is taking on new proportions.” Diane Arbus' daring early work: 'It was a story that went untold, until now' 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z “We are looking back three-quarters of the way almost to the big bang,” said Dr Patrick Kelly, first author of the research from the University of Minnesota. Hubble space telescope captures image of most distant star ever seen 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Hawking spent much of his later years trying to figure out how a black hole could regurgitate information—although he also worked on theories of what triggered the big bang. Hawking’s final quest: saving quantum theory from black holes 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z To put it more bluntly: How much are “pure” discoveries like the big bang or out-of-Africa hypothesis worth? Is Science Hitting a Wall? 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Why is it so important that we understand how the big bang happened? A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Likewise, astronomers are confident that the volume of space-time within range of our telescopes -- what astronomers have traditionally called 'the universe' – is only a tiny fraction of the aftermath of our big bang. Cosmic Thinker Worries about the Ends of Science and Humanity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z In Hawking’s writings about the universe’s origin, he and co-author Leonard Mlodinow posited in the 2010 book, “The Grand Design,” that the big bang was inevitable. ‘I’m not afraid’: What Stephen Hawking said about God, his atheism and his own death 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z He also hypothesized that miniature black holes, remnants of the big bang, may be strewn through space, though he noted that they haven’t been discovered. Stephen Hawking, physicist who came to symbolize the power of the human mind, dies at 76 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z It would tell us why the big bang banged and spawned this particular cosmos, which allowed for our existence. My Alarming, Inspiring Encounter with the Late Stephen Hawking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Could the idea of inflation—the enormous and sudden accelerated expansion of the universe after the big bang—help reveal those details? A Conversation with Thomas Hertog, One of Stephen Hawking's Final Collaborators 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Until about 50 years ago we weren’t sure whether there was a big bang at all. Cosmic Thinker Worries about the Ends of Science and Humanity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Hawking’s earlier best-selling cosmology book, “A Brief History of Time,” also discussed black holes and the big bang. ‘I’m not afraid’: What Stephen Hawking said about God, his atheism and his own death 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z He also hypothesized that miniature black holes, remnants of the big bang, may be strewn through space, though he noted that so far they haven’t be discovered. Stephen Hawking, physicist who came to symbolize the power of the human mind, dies at 76 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z One could almost believe there was a biological memory dating to the big bang: Ground Control to Major Mom 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z For example, claims that we understand the big bang, the event that marked the origin of the universe. The More We Know, the More Mystery There Is 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The entire panorama that astronomers can observe could be a tiny part of the aftermath of ‘our’ big bang, which is itself just one bang among a perhaps-infinite ensemble. Cosmic Thinker Worries about the Ends of Science and Humanity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z For some time after the big bang there were no stars. A new dark matter signal from the early universe, massive family trees, and how we might respond to alien contact 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The wavelength of the dip suggest that the cosmic dawn occurred about 180m years after the big bang, 13.6bn years ago and nine billion years before the birth of the sun. Cosmic dawn: astronomers detect signals from first stars in the universe 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The universe’s first galaxies are thought to be small, fragile, and not that great at birthing stars, so Furlanetto wouldn’t expect the signal to peak until about 325 million years after the big bang. We May Have Found the First Stars Born After the Big Bang 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z This week in Nature, they report detecting the tiny absorption signal—the cumulative shadows, they conclude, of hydrogen clouds that existed between 180 million and 250 million years after the big bang. Signal from age of the first stars could shake up search for dark matter 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z When people ask me about dark energy, the force that's prevents another big bang and will cause the universe to expand forever, I'm forced to shrug. Astronomers’ Dark Energy Hopes Fade to Gray 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z And his infrastructure program is not a big bang of new construction but a whimper that effectively relies on everyone but the federal government to do the new building. Opinion | A groundswell for sanity 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z "Heard a big bang and the plane started to shake violently," tweeted Maria Falaschi, who posted images of the engine. A loud bang then violent shaking: United Airlines engine casing breaks apart over the Pacific 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z But a big bang reform engineered by France and Germany that dragged a reluctant Netherlands into ever-deeper integration and greater risk-sharing would carry risks, too. German Coalition Deal Evokes Relief and Anxiety in Europe 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Researchers will use data collected by the linked arrays to investigate a wide range of questions, including what happened just after the big bang and whether there is other life in the universe. Astronomers ready to unveil prototype radio dish for landmark observatory 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Looking back at the recipients of the initial awards handed out during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, you’d never know the big bang called rock ‘n’ roll had just exploded. The Grammy Awards at 60: What a long, strange trip it’s been 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Looking back at the recipients of the initial awards handed out during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, you'd never know the big bang called rock 'n' roll had just exploded. The Grammy Awards at 60: What a long, strange trip it's been 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Passengers reported feeling the car shake for a few minutes before hearing a big bang, and then feeling the car crush in on them. Italian train derails near Milan, 3 dead, many injured 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Most scientists think space and time originated with the big bang. The Puzzle of the First Black Holes 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z These clusters are so massive they warp the surrounding space, forming gigantic “gravitational lenses” that amplify the faint light from galaxies even farther away, ones born less than a billion years after the big bang. What Will NASA's Biggest-Ever Space Telescope Study First? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Positrons help create this gamma-ray fog when they slam into the cosmic microwave background radiation, the photons of light left over from the big bang that formed the universe. Through a Gas, Darkly: Scientists Trace the Origins of Earth's Antimatter 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The feat offered experimental proof of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and ushered in a new field of astronomy with the potential to reveal the first moments after the big bang. Essential California: The origins of 'Dirty John' 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z His “natural solution” invokes high-speed streams of gas that flowed through the universe in the aftermath of the big bang as the critical catalyst. Zeroing In on How Supermassive Black Holes Formed 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Kirsty Williams said it was the right decision for the new national curriculum to be a "phased roll-out rather than a 'big bang'." Welsh curriculum overhaul delayed a year 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “If it is going to happen it won’t be in one big bang,” said a senior executive at one of Europe’s largest banks, which took part in the survey. Reuters survey: 10,000 UK finance jobs affected in Brexit's first wave 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Another possibility is that during the initial expansion of the universe after the big bang, cosmic “bubbles” created multiple—if not an infinite number of—universes, of which ours is just one iteration. Mysterious Universe 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “He said he heard a big bang and saw fire growing up in the sky,” Murangwa recalls. How being a footballer saved me from death in Rwanda genocide 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Recent observations have revealed the existence of black holes billions of times more massive than the sun just 800 million years after the big bang. Zeroing In on How Supermassive Black Holes Formed 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Here, one will find multiple versions of most of the songs, starting with the original Sun single often referred to as the big bang of rock ’n’ roll, “That’s All Right.” Elvis Presley's 'A Boy From Tupelo' set documents the big bang of rock 'n' roll 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z “If it is going to happen it won’t be in one big bang,” said a senior executive at one of Europe’s largest banks, which took part in the survey. Reuters survey: 10,000 UK finance jobs affected in Brexit's first wave 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, another astronomer on the team, said that before their simulations, galaxies were thought to grow primarily by absorbing material left over from the big bang. We are all made of stars: half our bodies' atoms 'formed beyond the Milky Way' 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Adair said Thursday that the package hit his roof with a "big bang." 15 Pounds of Frozen Meat Falls From Sky on Florida Man's House 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z According to the group’s simulations, in some parts of the universe the gravity from dark matter would have ensnared fast-moving streams of primordial hydrogen and helium left behind by the big bang. Zeroing In on How Supermassive Black Holes Formed 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z When he and Krabbenhoft took the stage a decade ago to stagger the local landscape, the quest for the big bang was really just beginning. Sioux Falls’ ‘Big Bang’ a decade later 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Adair said Thursday that the package hit the roof with a “big bang.” A weird Florida mystery: Meat falling from the sky 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z By studying them, scientists can learn about the inner workings of supernovae, the first moments after the big bang, and the seething hearts of stars—including our sun, which is what Davis wanted to investigate. Physicists Go Deep in Search of Dark Matter 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Neighbors reported hearing a big bang before the flames erupted. Man died from Onawa fire injuries, authorities say 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Every cubic centimeter of space averages roughly 350 primordial neutrinos lingering from the big bang, and every second, the sun sends trillions of higher-energy neutrinos streaming through each of us. Weighing the universe's most elusive particle 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Whether black holes from the big bang explain dark matter—not to mention LIGO’s results—is an “open question,” Landry said. LIGO's Latest Black-Hole Merger Confirms Einstein, Challenges Astrophysics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “You don’t need a big bang,” he replies. Mohamed El-Erian: ‘we get signals that the system is under enormous stress’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “Better than one big big bang than one reform after another, especially in countries like Italy and France where there is a strong resistance to change,” he said. Macron victory gives Brussels confidence boost over EU's future 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z |
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