Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. In cosmology, the Big Bang theory is king. It wasn’t always ...

Even with deterministic evolution for cosmological quantum systems being valid at all times, there may remain limitations to our knowledge of the Universe phases before the Big Bang. To analyse this, ...

READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...

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