Three Theories That Might Blow Up Big Bang

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Three competing theories on how Life, The Universe and Everything started.

Big Idea 1: The Incredible Bulk
The latest elaboration of Steinhardt and Turok’s cyclic cosmology, spearheaded by Evgeny Buchbinder of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, was published last December. Yet the impulse behind this work far predates modern theories of the universe. In the fourth century A.D., St. Augustine pondered what the Lord was doing before the first day of Genesis (wryly repeating the exasperated retort that “He was preparing Hell for those who pry too deep”). The question became a scientific one in 1929, when Edwin Hubble determined that the universe was expanding. Extrapolated backward, Hubble’s observation suggested the cosmos was flying apart from an explosive origin, the fabled Big Bang.

In the standard interpretation of the Big Bang, which took shape in the 1960s, the formative event was not an explosion that occurred at some point in space and time—it was an explosion of space and time. In this view, time did not exist beforehand. Even for many researchers in the field, this was a bitter pill to swallow. It is hard to imagine time just starting: How does a universe decide when it is time to pop into existence?...

And besides 'Big Idea 1' you get two more! That's 3 for the price of 1! Well, if you're going to have a bang, it might as well be a big one...


3 Theories That Might Blow Up the Big Bang

Time may not have a beginning—and it might not exist at all...

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Which is what science does best, as time goes on and more data is observed hypothesis change with time. Sometimes a hypothesis may be strengthened and sometimes weakened to the point where it is replaced by another, much as the atomic model of the atom has evolved beyond what many of us may have learned in high school,so will new frontiers of exploration. The answers will fall into place as we move forward.

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Which is what science does best, as time goes on and more data is observed hypothesis change with time. Sometimes a hypothesis may be strengthened and sometimes weakened to the point where it is replaced by another, much as the atomic model of the atom has evolved beyond what many of us may have learned in high school,so will new frontiers of exploration. The answers will fall into place as we move forward.

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