What Came Before The Big Bang?

According to the team, the new approach can explain how the universe's initial inflation can naturally arise. But it comes ...

An exploration of the Big Bang theory and how people interpret its meaning, combining scientific understanding with ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

The discovery of what existed before what we consider modern-day matter has led scientists to change their view of cosmology ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...