01 February 2017
Researchers find substantial observational evidence for a holographic Universe
... of inflation. Developed in the 1980s to explain several puzzles with the standard Big Bang theory, the Inflation theory proposes that a period of extremely rapid and exponential expansion of the Universe occurred during its first few ...
24 October 2016
New research questions the rate at which the Universe is expanding
... cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the faint afterglow of the Big Bang - has also been used to support the same idea. However...is quick to note that this research may not overturn current theories overnight and that a lot of work will be necessary to...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
...time when the scientific community was discovering the first utterances of what would later become the Big Bang theory and developing a vision of a universe with exorbitant spatio-temporal dimensions through frequently heated debates, the philosopher...
October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
...started, how it is evolving and how it will ‘die’. One of the leading contending theories for the creation of the universe – commonly known as the Big Bang theory - is that it started in an incredibly dense and hot state from which it began to expand...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
...Working with Roger Penrose, the two showed that the Big Bang could have had its beginnings from a singularity – ...a regular appearance in popular comedies such as the Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory, while his book, A Brief History in Time, which sold...
26 February 2018
Spaceman: an astronaut’s unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe
... popular science programmes in the US and UK and has even played himself in the science-based sitcom The Big Bang Theory. His ‘day job’ as a NASA astronaut lasted from 1996 to 2014 and he flew on two Shuttle missions to the...
