the big bang
noun
: a huge explosion that is believed to have happened when the universe began
a few billion years after the big bang
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Yet that’s not even the big bang that kicks off the season.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
But now, according to a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have suggested it could have been made before the big bang.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Namely, was our knowledge of the expansion of the universe after the big bang simply wrong?
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
During the first roughly 380,000 years after the big bang, space was filled with a plasma of free protons, electrons and light.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
But now, according to a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have suggested it could have been made before the big bang.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Namely, was our knowledge of the expansion of the universe after the big bang simply wrong?
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
During the first roughly 380,000 years after the big bang, space was filled with a plasma of free protons, electrons and light.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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“The big bang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20big%20bang. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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