Big Bang
Before The Big Bang
We don’t know and will likely never know what happened before the Big Bang, but Chris is curious about it, so we take a journey in the land before time and space!
Big Bang
Big Bang
Big Bang
The Big Bang is not going anywhere.
On the 4th of February a paper was published detailing a Universe that didn’t need a Big Bang. While it is very interesting (you can read it here) I find myself once again at odds with how theoretical papers are formulated.
10 Features
The Universe in 10 Features: 4. Reionisation
The Universe coming out of the cosmic dark ages was a bleak place. The afterglow of the Big Bang had slipped into infrared radiation and neutral hydrogen was a mist stretching the entire cosmos. But as we learnt, stars soon started shining, piercing and breaking that mist giving way to the Epoch ...
10 Features
The Universe in 10 Features – 1. Cosmic Inflation
The Universe began 13.8 billion years ago in an event called the Big Bang. Throughout its ages the universe has changed a lot, sometimes dramatically, so to appreciate these changes I’m going to discuss the History of the Universe in 10 Features. My first feature is the theory of cosmic inflation.
AstroNews
The first concrete evidence of Cosmic Inflation?
It was announced on Monday that the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarisation 2 (BICEP2 – don’t you love projects acronyms?) experiment at the South Pole found a special pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The pattern they found is the B-mode polarisation signal in the...
Big Bang
Something out of Nothing
If the 1st Law of Thermodynamics is true how could the Universe begin from nothing? To answer this question we need to remember that nothing is a global term and not a local one.