cosmic microwave background radiation
Some of the things I overheard at Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday conference did make me wonder whether I hadn't got the wrong building and stumbled in on a sci-fi convention. "The state of the multiverse". "The Universe is simple but strange". "The future for intelligent life is potentially infinite". And — excuse me — "the Big Bang was just the decay of our parent vacuum"?! |
Cambridge celebrates 25 years since the first very early Universe workshop
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There might not be a Nobel Prize for mathematics, but maths is at the heart of the 2006 Nobel Prizes.
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What happens when one black hole meets another? Professor Kip Thorne shows us how to eavesdrop on these cosmic events by watching for telltale gravitational waves.
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