big bang theory
Who was Stephen Hawking?
With countless contributions to the sciences, Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest living minds, and one of the greatest…
Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole? A New Theory Of The Universe’s Creation
Could the famed "Big Bang" theory need a revision? A group of theoretical physicists suppose the birth of the universe…
Kapow! Keck Confirms Puzzling Element of Big Bang Theory
Observations of the kaboom that built our universe -- known as the Big Bang -- is better matching up with…
Abuse From Other Universes – A Second Opinion
[/caption] At the end of last year, there was a flurry of activity from astronomers Gurzadyan and Penrose that considered…
Cosmological Constant
[/caption] The cosmological constant, symbol Λ (Greek capital lambda), was 'invented' by Einstein, not long after he published his theory…
Universe to WMAP: ΛCDM Rules, OK?
[/caption] The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team has finished analyzing seven full years' of data from the little…
Nucleosynthesis
'Nucleo-' means 'to do with nuclei'; 'synthesis' means 'to make', so nucleosynthesis is the creation of (new) atomic nuclei. In…
Big Bang Timeline
The Big Bang timeline is basically just a list of relative times at which the major events in the history…