Category: Big Bang
Can a universe be both eternal and created?
| October 8, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
From Oxford’s William E. Carroll at Big Questions Online: The use of cosmology either to deny or to affirm creation is often the result of confusions about what creation is and about the explanatory power of the natural sciences. Creation, as a metaphysical and theological notion, affirms that all that exists — in whatever way […]
What came before the Big Bang is not a science question
| October 6, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
From Rachel Feltman and Matthew R. Francis at Popular Science: The main reason some physicists obsess over the beginning of the universe is because so much evidence points to there being one. But what if our universe grooved within an ageless multiverse—like a patch of ground from which countless flowers bloom. In this model, each […]
Announced at Forbes: The Big Bang is not the beginning of the universe
| September 22, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
From Ethan Siegel at Forbes: The Universe began not with a whimper, but with a bang! At least, that’s what you’re commonly told: the Universe and everything in it came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang. Space, time, and all the matter and energy within began from a singular point, and then […]
Do we live at a special time in the history of the universe, for making science observations?
| September 20, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy |
Our Jonathan Bartlett (johnnyb) wrote recently at Answers in Genesis: Lawrence Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer surprised the cosmology world in 2007 when they published an essay titled “The Return of a Static Universe and the End of Cosmology.” The paper showed that, assuming the truth of the current big bang model, in the far […]
Researcher: Black holes formed shortly after the Big Bang
| September 5, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From ScienceDaily: A long-standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe’s very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of years later during the deaths of the earliest stars. Alexander Kusenko, a UCLA professor of physics, and Eric Cotner, a UCLA graduate […]
At SciAM: Lawbreaking particles a “a complete revolution” in physics
| July 23, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From Jesse Dunietz at Scientific American: Scientists aren’t yet certain that electrons and their relatives are violating the Standard Model of particle physics, but the evidence is mounting The evidence comes from electrons and their more massive cousins, muons and tau leptons. According to the Standard Model, these three particles should behave like differently sized […]
Claim: Hawking wrong space-time infinite at Big Bang
| June 18, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
From the Daily Galaxy: According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the curvature of spacetime was infinite at the big bang. In fact, at this point all mathematical tools fail, and the theory breaks down. However, there remained the notion that perhaps the beginning of the universe could be treated in a simpler manner, and that […]
The Big Bang: Put simply, the facts are wrong.
| May 25, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang |
They always have been. And Cool never changed that. Typing “Big Bang Theory” into a search bar links us immediately to the long-running (debut 2007), immensely popular CBS sitcom, a post-modern look at the lives of Caltech physicists. The conventional meaning of the term, our universe’s origin starting with a small singularity currently pegged at […]
The Big Bang was a Catholic plot. You knew that, right?
| May 14, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Religion, Science |
From Ray Cavanaugh at Salvo: After his ordination [to the priesthood], Lemaître won a scholarship to study abroad and headed to Cambridge University, where he worked with the astronomer Arthur Eddington. He then migrated from Cambridge in the U.K. to Cambridge, Massachusetts, so he could study at Harvard and M.I.T., where he earned a doctoral […]
Inflation and its critics
| May 12, 2017 | Posted by Robert Sheldon under Big Bang, Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design |
The firestorm ignited by Ijjas, Loeb & Steinhardt’s blog post in Scientific American, is very much worth your time reading. It engages Peter Woit’s string-theory criticism on his blog. But the scientists do not divide into sides very rationally, as Woit notices, “This is getting very weird. It’s not normal to respond to a scientific […]
But it can’t really be Fake Physics because humans did not evolve to perceive reality
| February 21, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Religion |
Peter Woit comments at Not Even Wrong on his review (paywall; no paywall) at Wall Street Journal of A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes by Zeeya Merali: My concern about the topic of the book is that it’s Fake Physics, not that religion is motivating the author (and likely […]
Multiverse explains why progress in fundamental physics is slow?
| February 21, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, News |
Further to “Atheist cosmologist warns “deeply religious” people not to put their faith in “apparent” fine-tuning” (Nature), Columbia mathematician and string theory skeptic Peter Woit (of Not Even Wrong) offers a review at Wall Street Journal of the same book, A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes by Zeeya […]
New evidence for the universe as a hologram?
| February 21, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
From astrophysicist Brian Koberlein at Nautilus: New Evidence for the Strange Idea that the Universe Is a Hologram One of the great mysteries of modern cosmology is how our universe can be so thermally uniform—the vast cosmos is filled with the lingering heat of the Big Bang. Over time, it has cooled to a few […]
Could we reproduce science exactly if it all disappeared? What about religion?
| February 20, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design, News |
From Brian Gallagher at Nautilus: Colbert, an idiosyncratic but sincere Catholic, was not really playing devil’s advocate when he challenged Gervais to an argument about the existence of God on his show. Gervais is outspoken about his disbelief and is fond of tweeting the reductio ad absurdum of various religious arguments, yet initially he seemed […]
The Big Bang as a theory no one really wanted. Except nature maybe?
| February 13, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, News |
From John Farrell, author of The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaiître, Einstein and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, at Nautilus: But Lemaître wasn’t satisfied. By 1931, he had come to believe that Einstein’s “initial condition” state could not be stable. Reaching back to Friedmann, he proposed his Primeval Atom hypothesis, essentially the Big Bang 1.0, that […]
Wayne Rossiter: Darwin and the Pope
| February 6, 2017 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion |
Concluding our religion News coverage for the week, From Wayne Rossiter, author of Shadow of Oz: Theistic Evolution and the Absent God: at his book blog: Over the weekend, I had a friend ask me about this story, in which Pope Francis has seemingly cast in with Darwinian evolution. Now, I have learned from previous […]
Ethan Siegel: Why there is more to universe than the standard model
| November 7, 2016 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics |
At Forbes: While experiments are telling us that low-energy supersymmetry and extra dimensions probably don’t exist (or are so constrained that they’re irrelevant), there are plenty of pieces of evidence that there’s more to existence than the Standard Model alone. What else is out there? There are five strong, independent lines of inquiry that reveal […]
Print your own baby universe for free
| November 1, 2016 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, News |
From Hanneke Weitering at Space.com: Have you ever wondered what the universe looks like in all of its entirety, or how it would feel to hold the universe in the palm of your hand? Good news: It is now possible to do both of these things — all you need is a 3D printer. Researchers […]
New theory links flow of time with Big Bang
| October 1, 2016 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, News, Physics |
From ScienceDaily, re UC Berkeley’s Richard Muller’s new book NOW: The Physics of Time (W. W. Norton) Ever since the Big Bang explosively set off the expansion of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, the cosmos has been growing, something physicists can measure as the Hubble expansion. They don’t think of it as stars flying […]
Researchers: First stars formed later than thought
| September 6, 2016 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Cosmology, News |
From Science Daily: ESA’s Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This new analysis also shows that these stars were the only sources needed to account for reionising atoms in the cosmos, having completed half of this process when […]
