The Origin of the Universe / THE BLACK HOLE AT THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE / Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole?

The Origin of the Universe

 

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Big Bang Mystery Extends Into Nearby Galaxy, Puzzling Cosmologists

New observations of the star cluster Messier 54, shown above, reveal that it is just as strangely deficient in lithium as our own galaxy, deepening a mystery about the element’s big bang origins.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ESO

Theory suggests stars should contain three times as much lithium as they do.

Michael D. Lemonick

for National Geographic

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Big Bang Theory and The incredibly precise design of our universe

How the Universe Came into Existence…

The dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe is the Big Bang theory:

Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun

 

Alan Guth was one of the first physicists to hypothesize the existence of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly and so quickly in the instant after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.CreditRick Friedman for The New York Times

By DENNIS OVERBYE The New York Times, MARCH 17, 2014

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One night late in 1979, an itinerant young physicist named Alan Guth, with a new son and a year’s appointment at Stanford, stayed up late with his notebook and equations, venturing far beyond the world of known physics.

Gravitational waves: have US scientists heard echoes of the big bang?

Primordial gravitational waves would provide evidence of inflation in the moments after the big bang. Photograph: Alamy

Discovery of gravitational waves by Bicep telescope at south pole could give scientists insights into how universe was born

Stuart Clark, The Guardian, Friday 14 March 2014

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What scientific idea is ready for retirement?

 

 

Each year a forum for the world’s most brilliant minds asks one question. This year’s drew responses from such names as Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan and Alan Alda. Here, edge.org founder John Brockman explains how the question came into being and we pick some of the best responses

The Observer, Sunday 12 January 2014
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Τι υπήρχε πριν από τη Μεγάλη Έκρηξη;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wright, Ferdinand von, In the Garden of Haminalahti, n. 1856-57

 

ΑΥΓΗ 14.07.2013

ΤΟΥ ΧΡΗΣΤΟΥ ΛΑΣΚΟΥ

Σύμφωνα με μια θεωρία, αν ανακαλύψει ποτέ κανείς για ποιο σκοπό ακριβώς υπάρχει και σε τι εξυπηρετεί, το Σύμπαν θα εξαφανιστεί αμέσως και θα αντικατασταθεί από κάτι ακόμη πιο παράξενο και μυστηριώδες. Σύμφωνα με μια άλλη θεωρία, αυτό έχει ήδη συμβεί.

Το Ολογραφικό Σύμπαν

Η μετέπειτα εξέλιξη του Σύμπαντος μας είναι – θεωρητικά – γνωστή. Τί συνέβη όμως στα πρώτα χιλιοστά του πρώτου δευτερολέπτου μετά τη Μεγάλη Εκρηξη;

Γαλδαδάς Αλκης, ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ 7.4.13

Ο έλληνας Κ. Σκενδέρης μας ξεναγεί στα παράξενα μονοπάτια του

Ο Κώστας Σκενδέρης είναι ο ένας από τους δύο μόνο Ευρωπαίους που έλαβαν ενίσχυση από το Ιδρυμα Τέμπλετον για να συνεχίσει τις έρευνές του γύρω από το Ολογραφικό Σύμπαν, ένα από τα πιο δύσκολα προβλήματα αιχμής στη Φυσική και στην Κοσμολογία. Σήμερα μας ξεναγεί στα παράξενα μονοπάτια του.

 

Which big bang? Rival theories of the universe’s birth

 

(Image: Mehau Kulyk/SPL/Getty Images)

http://www.newscientist.com/special/big-bang

Big bang, big bounce and inflating bubbles: stretch your mind around the expanding cosmos with New Scientist‘s in-depth coverage of how everything began