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Does the other side of the Big Bang factor into JWST observations?
Our (roughly) 13.6 billion light year view to the point of origin (big bang) is just along a radial axis. Assuming most matter ejected in a (roughly) spherical pattern, the diameter of the universe is ...
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Did Einstein supported Big Bang Theory cosmological model?
Einstein made many predictions, including gravitational waves and the possibility of black holes.
Relativity is taken into consideration for the Big Bang model, so did Einstein agree with it or did ...
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What reference frame do age-of-the-universe calculations assume?
I'm thinking, in particular, about general relativity. When we speak, for example, of neutrino decoupling, what do we mean when we say this happened in the first second after the Big Bang? Do we mean ...
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If space is negative energy and matter is positive energy then does that mean the universe is finite?
I was reading a book by Stephen Hawking, it was written that universe is made up of 2 ingredients,i.e., space and energy and space was the negative energy, so they add up to 0. But since space is ...
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Why is the CMB not simply travelling parallel to us? [closed]
When we look to the distant farthest reaches of the universe we see light that was emitted at the big bang 14 billion years ago. But the universe was tiny back then so that light, which is only ...
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Gravitational Waves and the Big bang
The Ligo website says "Detecting the relic gravitational waves from the Big Bang will allow us to see farther back into the history of the Universe than ever before."
I find this puzzling. How can a ...
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World line coordinate finiteness
If you trace two particles' world line backwards in time, according to current theory, both objects should converge at big bang.
Would both objects arrive there simultaneously?
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