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Cosmology inflation
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Stephen Hawking's new book, "The Grand Design," co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow, contends that God is not necessary to create the universe because the laws of physics can do it alone. The "new atheist" crowd will cheer this message, but their credulity is a matter more of fiery sentiment than of coolheaded logic. Mr. Hawking asserts that "as recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." But "spontaneous creation" minus any cause illustrates the lack of an explanation rather than scientific comprehe...
...Cosmic inflation is invoked to "explain" why our universe is so fla...
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...* String Inflation: Brane Inflation and Inflation from Moduli . * Cos...
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Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science - Fred Hoyle's Universe - Book Review
..., turned professional opinion in cosmology sharply away from the steady state. . But Hoyle ne...The theory of cosmic inflation, in which the early universe expanded rapidly, bea...
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Three American-born astrophysicists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for showing that the universe is flying apart at an ever-accelerating pace, a discovery that overturned decades of assumptions in the field of cosmology. Discovered nearly simultaneously by rival teams in 1998, the finding all but settled one of the biggest questions in science: the ultimate fate of the universe. Billions of years from now, as galaxies continue to pull apart from one another, the ever- enlarging universe will turn black and cold, the scientists say.
...The discovery that the universe's inflation was speeding up pushed cosmologists to an uncomfo...
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MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- There are worse jobs than being a science teacher in the state of Kansas. But not much. According to Popular Science Magazine, only two jobs -- a manure inspector and a human lab rat -- rank lower than a Kansas biology teacher, which is akin to being "on the front lines of science's devolution," the magazine states.
... association for his contributions in cosmology, including the quantum mechanics of inflation, the...
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MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- There are worse jobs than being a science teacher in the state of Kansas. But not much. According to Popular Science Magazine, only two jobs -- a manure inspector and a human lab rat -- rank lower than a Kansas biology teacher, which is akin to being "on the front lines of science's devolution," the magazine states.
... association for his contributions in cosmology, including the quantum mechanics of inflation, the...
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Time may be money on Earth, but as far as the cosmos is concerned, time is distance. The universe is so large that the light from even relatively close stars takes years to reach us. The distance light travels in a year (through a vacuum) is called a light year. Light years are easier to use than miles or kilometers an hour. A light year is about 9.5 trillion kilometers, or 5.8 trillion miles. The nearest star, other than the sun, is about 4.3 light years away.
...It's called inflation. Subsequent physicists refined and strengthened th...Cosmology buffs know that the early universe was so hot that...
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...COSMOLOGY . "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride" . By Clif...Could cosmic inflation be a sign that our universe is in a far vaster rea...
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Ross and his RTB associates are fond of the hypothesis of the fine-tuning of the universe, which is the modernday resurrection of the design argument, which goes something like this: 1 If things had been different, then things would be different. 2 If the physical constants of the universe had been different at the Big Bang, then we wouldn't have life, especially human life, today. 3 The physical constants could have been different and all their exact values are, individually and taken together, extremely improbable. 4 Therefore, God exists because somebody was required to select those exact values of the constants for the purpose of getting humans later on. All this really means is that persons who wish to believe in God, especially physicists, will continue to pick out factors and co...
... the Universe which focused primarily on cosmology and physics. He was followed by Dr. Rana who prese...5. Did inflation happen? At what energy? Will we see its imprint in...
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PASADENA, Calif. - California Institute of Technology physicist Andrew E. Lange, co-leader of an international team that produced a detailed image of remnants of the Big Bang showing the universe is flat, has died in an apparent suicide, police said Tuesday. He was 52. Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau notified the institution in an e-mail that Lange apparently took his own life on Friday.
..."It is an incredible triumph of modern cosmology to have predicted their basic form so accurately,"...A flat universe also supports the "inflation" theory that the universe underwent a rapid expans...
