Speed and gravity

Wolf Kahn (USA b. 1927), Green and Black (2002)

Anders Paulin

Sandra Bullock and a resurrection of the institution

Today, knowledge, aesthetics and politics are produced and consumed in cultural shopping malls in as generic forms as possible, writes Swedish theatre director Anders Paulin. High time, therefore, to rethink and reclaim the institution as a necessary mediator between society and its citizens.

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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