Monday, December 25, 2017

What If the Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? New Study Proposes Alternative - PHYSICS


Was the universe created with a Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, or has it been expanding and contracting for eternity? A new paper, inspired by alternative explanations of the physics of black holes, explores the latter possibility, and rejects a core tenant of the Big Bang hypothesis. 

The universal origin story known as the Big Bang postulates that, 13.7 billion years ago, our universe emerged from a singularity — a point of infinite density and gravity — and that before this event, space and time did not exist (which means the Big Bang took place at no place and no time). 

However, there is no direct evidence of the original singularity. (Collecting information from that first moment of expansion is impossible with current methods.) In the new paper, Brazilian physicist Juliano Cesar Silva Neves argues that the original singularity may never have existed.


Read the article:
https://www.space.com/38982-no-big-bang-bouncing-cosmology-theory.html
http://agencia.fapesp.br/before_the_big_bang/26684/

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