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timeGod was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope
Most cosmologists believe that the Universe, and with it space and time, exploded into being some 13.7 billion years ago at the Big Bang, and that it has been expanding ever since. A crucial component of the standard cosmological model—needed to explain why the Universe is so uniform—is the idea that a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, the Universe underwent a brief period of extremely rapid expansion known as inflation. Penrose, however, thinks that the Universe's great uniformity instead originates from before the Big Bang, from the tail end of a previous aeon that saw the Universe expand to become infinitely large and very smooth.
10 Strange Things About the Universe
Stephen Hawking: God Did Not Create the Universe
Lawrence M. Krauss: Our Spontaneous Universe
Phil Lawler: not a Big Bang but a whimper
Read Robert Spitzer on The Grand Design
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Does Dark Energy Really Exist? (March 2009)
Did
our cosmos exist before the big bang?
The recycled universe of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) (New Scientist
13 Dec 2008, pages 32-35)
What makes the universe tick? (New Scientist 19 Nov 2008)
Is Earth at the heart of a giant cosmic void? (New Scientist 12 Nov 2008)
Why Einstein was wrong about relativity (New Scientist 29 Oct 2008)
Brain Science and the Soul (Oct 20, 2008)
LHC Update (Oct 16, 2008)
The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course by Brian Greene (of "The Elegant Universe") on The Large Hadron Collider (Sep 11, 2008)
On the Edge of Discovery: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by Stephen Barr (Sep 11, 2008)
Vatican conference seeks clarity on Darwin's theory (Sep 17, 2008)
Big Bang or Big Bounce? New Theory on the Universe's Birth (Oct 2008) [compare Roger Penrose's lecture]
The End of Cosmology? (Mar 2008)
The Future of Physics (Feb 2008)
One Ring to Rule Them All: Large Hadron Collider at a Glance
The Basics of Particle Physics
Taking Science on Faith [with a response by John Keck] and Laws of Nature, Source Unknown
Have we sealed the universe's fate by looking at it?
Mankind 'shortening the universe's life'
What is Dark Matter? [video]
The Many Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (Dec 2007)
The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride (Nov 2007)
Universe offers 'eternal feast,' cosmologist says
Quantum Weirdness (Aug 2007)
Am I Free to Pour My Own Coffee? By Joseph Bottum Thursday, April 12, 2007
Free Will and Physics By Robert T. Miller Thursday, April 12, 2007
Reasonable Science, Reasonable Faith by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (Apr 2007)
Faith and Quantum Theory by Stephen M. Barr (Mar 2007)
The Ends of Science by Eric Cohen (Nov 2006)
The Idol of Science by Stephen M. Barr (Oct 2006)
Christianity’s Scientists By Stephen Barr Monday, August 28, 2006
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