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Madly Mapping the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Super-Sensors to Measure 'Signature' of Inflationary Universe (w/Video)

What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Super-sensitive microwave detectors, built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may soon ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 8




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When dark energy turned on (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 68 | with audio podcast

Physicists search for new physics in primordial quantum fluctuations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Inflation, the brief period that occurred less than a second after the Big Bang, is nearly as difficult to fathom as the Big Bang itself. Physicists calculate that inflation lasted for just ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 99 | with audio podcast feature

Detection of cosmic effect may bring universe's formation into sharper focus

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first observation of a cosmic effect theorized 40 years ago could provide astronomers with a more precise tool for understanding the forces behind the universe's formation and growth, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Researchers take first steps toward X-ray superfluorescence

(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicist Robert Dicke is probably most famous for his work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – and being "scooped" while attempting to be the first to detect it – he ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Flat universe

A remarkable finding of the early 21st century, that kind of sits alongside the Nobel prize winning discovery of the universe’s accelerating expansion, is the finding that the universe is geometrically ...

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created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 68

Scientists glimpse universe before the Big Bang

(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, asking what happened before the Big Bang is not really considered a science question. According to Big Bang theory, time did not even exist before this point roughly 13.7 billion ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (102) | comments 174 | with audio podcast weblog

Time likely to end within 5 billion years, physicists calculate

(PhysOrg.com) -- As far as astrophysicists can tell, the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and will likely continue to do so indefinitely. But now some physicists are saying that this theory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (59) | comments 96 | with audio podcast report

Probing the dark side of the universe

Advancing into the next frontier in astrophysics and cosmology depends on our ability to detect the presence of a particular type of wave in space, a primordial gravitational wave. Much like ripples moving ...

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created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 99 | with audio podcast

Dark Energy From the Ground Up: Make Way for BigBOSS

(PhysOrg.com) -- Several ways have been proposed to examine dark energy, in hopes of finding out just what it is. One of them, "supernovae" for short, certainly works: it's how dark energy was discovered in ...

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created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 13

QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June

A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.

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created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7


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