When you make a purchase through our article links, Future and its affiliates may receive a commission. A comparison of the early stages of the universe. The proposed changes to Einstein’s relativity suggest that the universe did not begin in a single state, which could solve one of the most prominent questions about the Big … Read more
One of the biggest unsolved problems in physics has to do with combining quantum mechanics and general relativity – two theories that are equally successful. And the latest attempt to close the bridge brings into the equation the explosion that started everything: the Big Bang. In a recent paper in Physical Review Letters, physicists at … Read more
A Theory of Gravity That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Minutes The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can explain a lot about the universe once it’s stable and expanding, but in the beginning, when heat and energy were extremes, it was still hard to pin … Read more
Researchers say a new theory to deal with the Big Bang could change the way physicists think about the early history of the universe. A team from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has taken a different approach to analyzing the origin of the universe from previous efforts, with a … Read more