What Came Before The Big Bang?

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

The Big Bang theory as a research area encompasses the theoretical, observational, and computational study of the hot, dense early universe and its subsequent expansion, structure formation, and ...