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[Cmdr JFarrington 0]

PHYSICIST EXPLORES WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE BIG BANG

New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we have today are in a research paper to be published July 1 by Martin Bojowald, assistant professor of physics at Penn State. The paper introduces a new mathematical model that gives new details about the beginning of our universe, which now appears to have been a Big Bounce, according to a new theory of quantum gravity, and not a Big Bang, as described by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Bojowald's research also suggests that, although it is possible to learn about many properties of the earlier universe, people always will be uncertain about some of these properties because his calculations reveal a "cosmic forgetfulness" that results from the extreme quantum forces during the Big Bounce.

 

Read the full story at http://live.psu.edu/story/24915

[Dox Maturin 0]

The name isn't as catchy.

[Joy 0]

I still prefer Asimov's version from the short story The Last Question of how the Big Bounce works.

[Greg Nirvana 0]

My head hurts from all of the scientific terms.

 

You can't expect much from a 12-year-old. :)

 

infinite depth thingymabobber.

[Kallah Ramson 0]

You have to be a high priest of mathematics to really understand it. Otherwise, you just have to take it on faith that they know what they're talking about. That's why science is a religion.

 

I'll stick with the short answer myself, God did it, and let the scientist keep guessing how he did it.

[Greg Nirvana 0]

You have to be a high priest of mathematics to really understand it. Otherwise, you just have to take it on faith that they know what they're talking about. That's why science is a religion.

 

I'll stick with the short answer myself, God did it, and let the scientist keep guessing how he did it.

 

 

Well, I'd say that you can't say science is a religion, because the age old battle science vs. religion.

[Kallah Ramson 0]

Battles arise when two things try and fill the same niche or draw from the same resources.

 

And the concept of Science vs Religion is a false notion anyways. Should probably be pseudo-science vs pseudo-religion.

 

But that's all well off topic of this thread.