Not only is it difficult to understand what goes on beyond the limits of the solar system that our planet calls home, the ...

one big question about the big bang remains: “What was it that banged?” The answer lies in his theory of cosmic inflation. “It sets up the conditions for the big bang—like a prequel ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

A key difference between standard big bang theory (with inflation ... In Chapter 12, we compare aspects of "cosmic genetics" inherent in the embryonic inflation model to the growth and evolution of ...

If validated, this would imply that the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning, but a transition within a larger, older cosmic timeline. The team’s model is called WIFI, short for warm inflation via ul ...

The Big Bang is often described as the modern ... quantum mechanics and our cosmic origins. Inflation and the Multiverse Finally, let me address an issue I’ve so far carefully avoided, one ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light: The cosmic ...

and Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation that provided evidence confirming the Big Bang Theory. The super-sensitive, horn-shaped antenna was instrumental in the experiments that led to this ...

Video by Stanford University shows Professor Andrei Linde and his wife’s surprise when they are told for the first time there is evidence supporting cosmic inflation theory. “It just ...