big bang

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2025/06/28/685fed0c46163fae9c8b4574.html I think this is the original article: https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/05503213/v1017icomplete/nfp_tioemgfotcmb.xml More research needed? :popcorn6

Two questions, actually: (1) Sure, the universe's expanding. But then we're part of that expansion, right? That is, our bodies too are expanding, aren't they? The distances/space between our cells, and therefore the size of our bodies, and also the size of our telescopes and whatnot? Does...

Stephen Hawking's final research paper has been published, and it's mind-bending Some other media headlines are saying that it means that the universe is not infinite and that it is more simple than complex. Or something like that...

It seems that an important question in physics is "why did the universe start in a state of low entropy?". I'd like to ask a related question: given an expanding universe, is there a relationship between density and entropy? The early universe was in a state of high density and high...

According to a recent (today) posting, Ben Carson, well known ******* and republicker, had something to say about his problem with the Big Bang: he says that he cannot/does not believe that big explosion could have happened because it obviously would have destroyed the Earth. This is not med...

http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html I haven't seen anything on this yet. Can someone explain how "[u]sing the quantum-corrected Raychaudhuri equation" eliminates the big bang? Can you also use small words? Thank you.

The current Pope has shown himself to be a quite rational, deep-thinking sort of person, whose views on science and the scientific process I admire. Recently he said: “When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand and able to do...

Although the verses have been confirmed they remain malcontent, But why such aversion to what has been sent? If naught had come down then this day would be unjust, But with the revelation thereof the event is must. Those willfully ignorant will speak “Who has woken us from our sleep”, While...

The Quasar is said to be a very distant object with an incredible energy output. Halton Arp appears to have evidence supporting a view that Quasars are expelled by Active Galactic Nuclei AGN. The Hubble Space Telescope HST could take excellent images of Arp's anomalies and put the matter to...

Hi all, Yesterday an idea sprang into my mind, while i was lurking through the NASA sites. Hubble detected several very distant galaxies and supernovae in a distance between 8 and 12 billion lightyears and that raised the following question in my mind: According to NASA, at least one of these...

I just finished watching George Smoot's TED talk on the Design of the Universe. In it, he says that "tiny fluctuations" in the otherwise smooth distribution of matter were ultimately responsible for the structure we see in the universe. My understanding is that those fluctuations are the...

I know that there a lot of LHC threads but I thought this news deserved it's own. http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2010/11/Large%20Hadron%20Collider%20achieves%20first%20lead%20ion%20collisions.aspx Pretty cool, huh?

This has, almost surely, been answered somewhere in thei forum in the last two years, but as everyone kno0ws, the noise in cosmology and astrphysics is abnormally high, and so I'd like to seek a specific answer from our panel of experts. For those who don't know about it already, the Cassiopeia...

I was re-reading Cosmos the other day and was looking at a picture of a spiral galaxy. Right next to it was a picture of a similar galaxy that had a bar right across it. I wondered how there came to be different kinds of galaxies. Why aren't they all the same? So I reasoned the conditions in...

LHC has now had its first real high energy collisions at 7 TeV. http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ And Earth survives! :D Now the anti lhc people will really look foolish.

Hello, I am a long-time fan of Mr. Randi but new to posting on these forums. In fact, it's my first time so please be gentle. Anyways, I have a question that some of you critical thinkers might be able to help me with: If the universe is about 156 billion light-years across (NASA.com), would...

If the Universe uniformly expanded from a very small singularity doesn't that mean that the original position of the singularity defines a centre point of the Universe that is absolutely/Universally stationary?

Some years ago I read The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, and in that book he laid out a way of thinking about relativity that made things click for me like no other explanation had before. Professor Greene wrote that any object, particle, or photon, is always moving at the speed of light...

I thought this would be interesting to recite. I was just reading this article by Doctor Cramer http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw141.html It reminded me of this exciting news: http://www.internationalreporter.com/News-2566/massive-hole-in-the-universe-billion-light-years-away.html I...

It was once decided that whilst this essay had been rooted in physics, it was generally philosophical and perhaps a religious essay, designed to explore the relationships between modern mythology and traditional understandings, with those of quantum mechanics. This essay talks about whether...

I was recently watching The Universe on the History Channel, and they mentioned the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. Sepcifically, they said how it was the largest piece of evidence in supporting the Big Bang theory. My question is: How? The show briefly explained that it was the left...

Okay, so I was listening to the audiobook version of Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', and very early in the book, he says something to the effect of 'The Big Bang came from nothing'. Other than the usual attempts by Creationists to frame it in a derisive manner when...

I've heard talk that the big bang may have been acausal. I've also heard that some quantum events appear to have no cause, and I suppose that at the beginning of the universe, it would have been small enough to be on the quantum level. Can anyone give me some examples of causeless events, in...

This is to all extent and purposes just a rehash of a previous thread, I will leave this one open and close the "original" however any further such breaches (which you have been previously warned about) will result in further action which may include suspension or banning.Actually modern science...

Was reading this and a question popped out at me. In the intro the article says: (Bolding mine) However, it then gives a timeline measured in 10^-n seconds after the big bang. I'm having difficulty reconciling the 200m year margin of error with this kind of precision. Could someone...

Download NGC 253, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor, thought to be nine million light years distant, from IPOD Astronomy Picture of the day, trim the image to 1359 x 1037 pixels centered on the brightest part of the galaxy, and extending as far as a cluster of emission nebulae, the...

Have there been any theories, papers, etc. on where the center of the Universe (Big Bang location) is located? I've found references about the age of the Universe, but not the center. A recent article in "Science News" suggests that a gravitional lensed (sp?) galaxy is 13.7-billion-years-old...

I came across this site that claims many scientific principles were actually presented first in the bible. http://www.creationevidence.org/scientific_evid/se_scripture.html

The origin of life is a crucial part (if not the most important question) of the Theist/Atheist debate. Yet I contend that most atheists are not aware that all life (the blue whales, the insects, the elephants, the octopuses, the trees in the redwood forests, the butterflies, the cactus, the...

In what was perhaps one of the greatest moments or irony in science, British physicist, Fred Hoyle, disparagingly refers to a theory of the beginning of the universe as the "Big Bang" on a BBC radio program in 1948. Hoyle is an ardent supporter of the Steady State Theory. The name sticks...