What Came Before The Big Bang?

Physicists at the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute have proposed a new model for the origin of the universe ...

An exploration of the Big Bang theory and how people interpret its meaning, combining scientific understanding with ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

The discovery of what existed before what we consider modern-day matter has led scientists to change their view of cosmology ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...