It's a mind-boggling question that has intrigued scientists theologians, and the curious alike for centuries: What was before the Big Bang? Roughly 13.7 billion years ago, the entire universe existed as a singularity, a point smaller than a subatomic particle, according to the Big Bang theory...
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Nathan Wolfe makes the point that until 1898, when Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck published a paper showing that something smaller than bacteria were causing diseases, something he called a virus, we had no idea that an entirely undiscovered form of life existed everywhere on our planet....
The Nasdaq-100 has borne the brunt of this new era of macroeconomic uncertainty. Investors are primed to believe that high-growth sectors like Technology are especially vulnerable to higher inflation and interest rates, which is why the index began underperforming as soon as the Fed made clear ...
As World War II ended, a new conflict began. This wasn’t a confrontation of gunfire and trenches; it was a competition with science and intellect. The Space Race may have been settled, but we are still striving to expand the limits of the explored universe, improve our aerospace and ...
There’s an ancient idea imbedded in this, common to all creation myths: that the universe itself began with chaos, and was brought into order by a Creator God. That God’s ordering of the universe was akin to musical composition, and that, when God set the planets in their orbits, the...
In our work instead, there would be no Big Bang as a beginning, as the causal set would be infinite to the past, and so there's always something before." Their work implies that the universe may have had no beginning — that it has simply always existed. What we perceive as the Big...
She’s also linked to more of their songs than I ever knew existed on YouTube (probably to help out all the people who have no idea who Neil and the lads are). And of course, I’m intensely envious of her.Green Brown Wins Quote of the Week 22 August, 2007 – 4:35 pm Posted ...
The ring around the bright yellow core is an area of active star birth. This means that the incredibly bright light of quasars has traveled billions of years to reach us and tells us that quasar-hosting galaxies are seen as they existed when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was much ...
Our Solar System is believed to have been anebulaof gas and dust that has existed for many millions of years. An event elsewhere caused our nebula to condense into the Sun, the asteroids and planets we know today. Heavier elements would have had to have come from a dying star. ...