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| Boughnn, Stephan, and Robert Crittenden. "A Correlation between the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-scale Structure in the Universe." (n.d.): n. pag. ProQuest. 1 Jan. 2004. Web. |
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| Davies, Paul. "When Time Began." New Scientist Oct 09 2004: 4-7. ProQuest. Web. 18 Apr. 2013 . |
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| Cole, K. C. "Space and Time, Strings Attached; the Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Brian Greene, Alfred A. Knopf: 574 Pp., $28.95." Los Angeles Times: 0. Mar 07 2004. ProQuest. Web. 30 Apr. 2013 . |
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| Wiswedel, Bernd, Frank Höppner, and Michael R. Berthold. "Learning in Parallel Universes." Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 21.1 (2010): 130-52. ProQuest. Web. 30 Apr. 2013. |
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| Spotts, Peter N. "To be Continued ... Infinitely Cosmologists Mute 'Big-Bang' Theory and Discover Inflation as Aneternal Feature of the Universe." The Christian Science Monitor: 15. Mar 11 1999. ProQuest. Web. 30 Apr. 2013 . |
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| Penn State, . N.p.. Web. 1 May 2013. . |
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| "Classic Discovery Shows." Discovery Channel. N.p., 2011. Web. 02 May 2013. |
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| Cramer, John G. "Before the Big Bang." Analog Science Fiction & Fact 1999: 92-4. ProQuest. Web. 22 April 2013 . |
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| Overbye, Dennis. "What Happened before the Big Bang?" New York Times: 0. Nov 11 2003. ProQuest. Web. 28 April 2013 . |
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| "relative abundance of light elements... Combined with particle physics... emergence of subatomic particles... existence of a cold remnant... cosmic Rosetta Stone..." |
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Bougnn and Crittenden
#Light elements #Subatomic Particles |
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#Flat Domain |
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| "There was nothing before the big bang"... people interpret "nothing" in this context to mean empty space, but let's be clear: space did not exist either prior to the big bang. |
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#Nothing #Empty Space #Time |
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-backwards in time, the universe becomes more compressed
-the warping of space-time escalates without limit ~until it becomes infinite at a singularity
-time and space began |
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#Warping #Space-Time #Singularity #The Beginning |
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| "pervasive heat radiation that is neatly explained as the fading afterglow of the primeval fire that accompanied the big bang" |
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| -space-time: not a static arena; an aspect of the gravitational field which manifests itself as a warping of space-time geometry, and such a warping occurs in the form of space being stretched with time |
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#Relativity #Space-time #Gravitational Field #Warping |
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| "The matter and energy content of the universe likewise originates at or near the beginning, and populates the universe everywhere at all times." |
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#Matter #Energy #Beginning |
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| the physical universe came into existence with time and not in time... "the origin of the physical universe must involve the origin of space and time too." |
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#Existence vs time and space |
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| spontaneous origination of time and space is a natural consequence of quantum mechanics... Quantum fluctuations are not caused by anything - they are genuinely spontaneous and intrinsic to nature at its deepest level... space and time "'switching on'...entirely in accordance with the laws of quantum physics...happen more than once" |
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#Quantum Theory #Quantum Mechanics #Quantum Fluctuations |
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| "'the universe' is viewed as but one 'bubble' of space within an infinite system of bubbles... one bubble of space - a single universe - pops into existence" |
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#Bubbles #Quantum Theory |
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| "infinite number of big bangs... no ultimate origin of the entire system [but] individual 'pocket universes'... have a distinct origin" |
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#Origins #Pocket Universes |
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| "Yet others propose that there exist many worlds, each with differing laws, and that only a small subset of these universes possess the rather special laws needed if life and reflective beings like ourselves are to emerge... the laws of physics have some kind of independent reality" |
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#Laws of Physics #Different Universes |
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There is no such thing as space and time before creation
Before the big bang, there was nothing |
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| "The laws of physics don't tell time which way to go" |
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#Time #Laws of Physics |
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| two particles distant from each other could be in touch through space |
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| two particles distant from each other could be in touch through space |
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| "The laws of physics don't tell time which way to go" |
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#Time #Laws of Physics |
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| physics cannot help you tell which way time is going |
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| Space isn't space because everything touches through space |
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| multiple universes are different in spacing of clusters |
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#Pocket Universes |
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there are such things as black holes and white holes.
Black holes: consumes
White holes: gives |
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#pocket universes |
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| slight variations of density throughout the universe |
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| our universe inflated to it's current size in the tiniest fraction of a second at it's birth |
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#inflation #birth of universe |
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| slight variations of density throughout the universe |
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| big bang + big crunch = big bounce |
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| slight variations of density throughout the universe |
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| "prior to the Big Bang, there was a contracting universe with space-time geometry that otherwise is similar to that of our current expanding universe." |
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| our universe had risen from precisely nothing |
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"Classic Discovery Shows"
#nothing to something |
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| nothing to infinite temperature, density and violence |
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#nothing to something |
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-supersaturated with energy
-ultra hot
-ultra dense
-gravity so strong it curved space back on itself
-didn't become black hole
-outward kinetic energy balanced |
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Cramer
#density #black hole #outward kinetic energy |
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| radius expanded faster than the speed of light |
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-universe started out nearly empty, cold, flat and unstable
-fluctuations began to create the big bang |
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#superstring theory #mirror duality |
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| "gravity as the 'bending' of space-time geometry, Einstein's theory predicted the expansion of the universe" |
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Overbye
#relativity #Einstein |
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| Before the big bang, there was no time... therefore there was nothing before the big bang because before didn't exist |
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#relativity #nothing |
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| another universe going backwards in time |
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#on the other side of Time Zero |
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| Black holes are like the big bang but made little progress |
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#string theory #black holes |
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| The universe was contracting from its previous stage before the big bang |
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#loop qautum gravity #big bounce |
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