big bang theory

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...

I will make this brief, hope someone will enlighten me Objects observed at great distances in space seem to have growing speed in which they move from us in accordance to their distance, and in every direction, as stated by the Big Bang theory. But isn't it a fact that looking further from us...

A question for people far more knowledgeable in this area than I am, is it both possible and plausible that the universe had no beginning? And if so, how? My entirely baseless hypothesis (uneducated guess) is that universe began as an infinitely small point and has been expanding forever, with...

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?

For those who read the announcement of TAM 7 speakers and may not be familiar with the show The Big Bang Theory or who Bill Prady is, here are some excerpts from a panel at San Diego ComicCon that Dr. Phil Plait posted back in December. I've rigged these to zap right to the parts where Bill...

I haven't ever heard a logical explanation, though I have heard a minority of which are slightly credible; *The universe has always been here, and -How has the universe always been here, how can something always be and never be made? *There was nothing before the universe, not even time. Time...

Is it possible to write a concise description of the Big Bang Theory? Of the general class of ΛCDM cosmological models (leaving the values of the parameters, including uncertainties, to a separate table)? Can this be done without the need for lots of links? Why am I asking this? Because a...

Someone linked this article to me the other day to support their claim that the Big Bang theory has been "disproven". Excuse me if I'm a bit skeptical about that...I know the folks here are far more knowledgeable in the sciences than I am, so I was wondering what you'd have to say about this...