Tag: big bang
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Space Waves Further Proof Universe Was Born in Big Bang
from adn.com: One night late in 1979, an itinerant young physicist named Alan Guth, with a new son and a year’s appointment at Stanford, stayed up late with his notebook and equations, venturing far beyond the world of known physics… On Monday, Guth’s starship came in. Radio astronomers reported that they had seen the beginning…
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Planck Surveys Cosmic Background Radiation
Planck Observatory (picture) supplies 15 months of cosmic background radiation data left over from just after the Big Bang. Data will be used in making detailed maps of universe. In article, ” “‘Hacking the Cosmos’ –Crunching Planck Data of Big-Bang Afterglow Reveals Daunting New Puzzles,” The Daily Galaxy reports Planck was “…launched in 2009 to…
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large hadron collider ‘set to create a mini-big bang’
from bbc: Since 2009, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter. But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead. The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks. The LHC is housed in…