Category: Big Bang
Physicists: New approach to antimatter offers promising results
| November 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
According to the Standard Model of our universe, beginning with the Big Bang, there is no difference between matter and antimatter (although they annihilate each other on contact). Why then do we see all matter, no antimatter? A group of physicists decided to test a new theory: From ScienceDaily: About ten picoseconds after the Big […]
Hubble’s Law name change urged, to recognize Big Bang pioneer, Fr. Georges Lemaitre
| November 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Astronomy, Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
Belgian priest Lemaitre apparently got the idea, which “underpins modern cosmology,” two years before Edwin Hubble: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recommends that the law now be known as the Hubble–Lemaître law. In the 1920s, the Belgian described in French how the expansion of the Universe would cause galaxies to move away from Earth at […]
The early universe was flat to a “suspicious” one part in a million
| October 27, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design |
An “expert voice” astrophysicist explains that the Big Bang is now the “vanilla Big Bang,” which is unpopular because it doesn’t explain all observations: The Big Bang model is our most successful explanation for the history of the universe that we live in, and it’s ridiculously easy to encapsulate its core framework in a single, […]
Researchers: Bizarre Antartic particles might shatter modern physics
| October 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Recent cosmic ray activity in Antartica is provoking question and speculation: Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray — a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about — the collection of particles that […]
Researchers: Fewer galaxies have formed since the Big Bang than should have
| October 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
They hope to be surer of that fact after a couple of years more data. From ScienceDaily: It all started with the measurements of the Planck satellite, which was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to measure the cosmic background radiation. This radiation is, to some extent, an afterglow of the big bang. It […]
Is there a crisis inside the physics of time?
| September 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Did Carlo Rovelli, start a fashion for debunking time with The Order of Time? Here’s science writer Marcia Bartusiak, author of Dispatches from Planet 3, asking whether it is time to just get rid of time: You might say that quantum mechanics introduced a fuzziness into physics: You can pinpoint the precise position of a […]
Experiment to probe the weak points of the Standard Model of our universe
| September 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Better known as Big Bang cosmology, it is not very popular in some quarters: Developed in the 1960s and ’70s, the standard model has some sizable holes: It can’t explain dark matter — an ethereal substance so far detected only by its gravitational effects — or dark energy, a mysterious oomph that causes the cosmos […]
Must Christians believe in the Big Bang theory?
| September 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
J. R. Miller offers a reasonable discussion of varieties of Biblical creationism: Maybe you have heard the accusation that biblical creationists are blinded by their ancient theology which forces them to reject the modern “scientific fact” of evolution. But what do people mean by this accusation? What is evolution? Is biblical creation a de facto […]
The world naturalism prevents us from seeing
| September 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Culture, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
Biola physics prof John Bloom offers some thoughts: For example, since the 1930s we have a growing body of data which show that the universe is expanding in a way which implies that everything in it came from a single point and an enormous burst of energy. Thus, it convincingly looks like our universe had […]
Actually, “dark photons” probably don’t exist
| September 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Yesterday, we noted the hunt for a mysterious fifth force of the universe involving dark photons. Here’s an item from last April that suggests the hunt may prove a disappointment: But the most precise measurement yet of the fine structure constant — which determines how strongly electrons and photons interact, or “couple” — has eliminated […]
How to talk yourself into believing in a multiverse
| August 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse |
It’s becoming obvious that post-modern science will have its multiverse irrespective of evidence from nature and will prefer it and its component beliefs to evidence from nature. That is why some of us think that the multiverse is science’s assisted suicide.
Why does anyone care what Buddhist or Hindu philosophy says about the Big Bang?
| August 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design |
If they are not Buddhist or Hindu. From Zeeya Merali at Aeon: The discussion has gone on ever since. I partook in 2014, while researching my book, A Big Bang in a Little Room (2017), about experiments on recreating the origins of the Universe in the lab. Not only did I meet with Ashtekar at […]
Researcher: The search for dark matter has become a “quagmire of confirmation bias”
| July 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From science writer Bruce Dorminey at Forbes: Time may be running out on the search for the cosmos’ exotic dark matter. Decades after the first searches for dark matter’s hypothetical exotic particle counterparts, researchers are mostly at a loss to explain why there still has been no direct detection. That is, one that could explain […]
Is the Standard Model of physics a tyrant?
| July 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From physicist Jonathan Link (Director of the Center for Neutrino Physics) at Scientific American: To be fair, the Standard Model of particle physics is a remarkable scientific achievement; the crown jewel of the physics revolution that dominated the 20th century, but in the 21st century its apparent infallibility saps the vitality of the field. That’s […]
Does the beginning of the universe require a cause?
| May 22, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics |
A philosophical question to wake you up. A reader directs our attention to a 2015 piece by cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin at Inference Review (2015): THE ANSWER to the question, “Did the universe have a beginning?” is, “It probably did.” We have no viable models of an eternal universe. The BGV theorem gives us reason to […]
Stars born only 250 million years after the Big Bang?
| May 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
The universe is currently estimated to be about 13.8 billion years old. From Laurel Hamer at ScienceNews: That’s earlier than the 550 million years ago suggested in a previous estimate that also measured starlight from the early universe (SN Online: 2/9/2015). But it’s in the same ballpark as observations reported in March (SN: 3/31/18, p. […]
At RealClearScience: Anti-religious feelings hindered acceptance of the Big Bang
| May 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Atheism, Big Bang, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Religion |
From science writer Ross Pomeroy at RealClearScience, addressing a point raised in astrophysicist Brian Keating’s Losing the Nobel Prize: … anti-religious sentiments provided underlying motivation to debunk Lemaître’s theory. Many atheist scientists were repulsed by the Big Bang’s creationist overtones. According to Hoyle, it was cosmic chutzpah of the worst kind: “The reason why scientists […]
“Complete surprise”: Stars are not necessarily born in the way we thought. Also, galaxies can form much faster than thought
| May 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Astronomy, Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From Cardiff University at Eurekalert: The birth of stars from dense clouds of gas and dust may be happening in a completely unexpected way in our own galaxy and beyond. This is according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Cardiff University, who have found that long-held assumptions about the relationship between the […]
Admitted? We may never know for sure how everything began?
| March 19, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
From Ross Pomeroy at RealClearScience, on understanding the Big Bang: “It certainly looks like the universe that we observe around us… definitely had a beginning,” MIT cosmologist Alan Guth, the originator of the theory of cosmic inflation, said in an interview for the PBS show Closer to Truth. “That doesn’t mean that that beginning was […]
New Scientist wants us to know why the Big Bang was not the beginning
| March 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design |
From Jon Cartwright at New Scientist, Although everyone has heard of the big bang, no one can say confidently what it was like. After all, recounting the beginning of time is about finding not just the right words, but the right physics – and ever since the big bang entered the popular lexicon, that physics […]
