‘The Early Universe is Nothing like We expected’ according to New Images from JWST | Live Science

The Cosmic Gems is one of the most highly magnified objects in space, thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed five extremely dense proto-globular clusters along a hair-thin …

Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine

By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments. Source: Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine This is fascinating and highly promising research: A team of mathematicians take a closer look under which conditions a singularity  might occur and have already identified a …

Unifying gravity and quantum mechanics without the need for quantum gravity | Physics World

Source: Unifying gravity and quantum mechanics without the need for quantum gravity – Physics World Stochastic framework In his study, Oppenheim builds on this idea to develop a new stochastic framework for coupling the quantum and classical-gravity worlds. Since these worlds have fundamentally different rules, Oppenheim’s theory uses separate statistical theories for each of them. …

Physics in Crisis. Quantum Cosmology can Save it | Big Think

Theoretical Physics professor with Technical University Dortmund, Germany, Heinrich Päs, suggests a solution to the conundrum modern science keeps running into since the advent and discovery of quantum mechanics.

Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton: ‘Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos’ | Astronomy | The Guardian

‘Cosmology has all the most fascinating questions that I’d been daydreaming about since I was a child’, says Laura Mersini-Houghton in Cambridge in this interview that appeared in the Guardian

The Big Bang no longer means what it used to | Big Think

Credit: Nicolle Rager FullerFrom a pre-existing state, inflation predicts that a series of universes will be spawned as inflation continues, with each one being completely disconnected from every other one, separated by more inflating space. One of these "bubbles," where inflation ended, gave birth to our Universe some 13.8 billion years ago, where our entire …

This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists | Ethan Siegel, Starts With A Bang

Source: This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists Key takeaways from the article: One of the most successful theories of 20th century science is cosmic inflation, which preceded and set up the hot Big Bang. We also know how quantum fields generally work, and if inflation is a quantum field (which we …

Does modern cosmology prove the existence of God? | Bigthink

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It's got to be God. Source: Does modern cosmology prove the existence of God? When carefully reading this article by Ethan Siegel, found and main contributor to Starts With A Bang science blog/vlog/podcast, I can't help but be …

Earth’s demise could rid galaxy of meaning, warns Brian Cox ahead of Cop26 | The Guardian

Source: Earth’s demise could rid galaxy of meaning, warns Brian Cox ahead of Cop26 | Brian Cox | The Guardian According to the above linked article in the Guardian, Brian Cox warns that the potential extinction of our species for self–inflicted reasons like e.g. the climate crisis, nuclear war or similar desasters could have a …

What happened before the Big Bang? A NASA astrophysicist explains. | BigThink

Source: What happened before the Big Bang? A NASA astrophysicist explains. All of a sudden and per Mrs. Thaller's explanation, I get the idea of a multiverse. OK. Makes more sense now. Still... a mistery, isn't it? Unfathomable, how something this big like our current observable universe should have evolved from something as tiny as …