“In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.” IfsKnowsMindStatesBigsUniverseTheoryBattleModelsAppreciateVersionsMathematicalRememberedPrimeSteadyInflationBangsRivalsIdenticalCosmologyAstronomers Author:Fred Hoyle
“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.” DifferentRealMatterStatesBigsRealityUniverseViewsKnownPathTakenSeaObjectsCloudsPoint Of ViewForestsAlternativesPerceiveShoreDecayQuantumFiniteBangsEmbeddedTrajectoryEntirety Author:Robert Charles Wilson
“Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an end, this does not mean apocalyptic visions of the end of the world were on target. And even if a beginning for the universe is a successful prediction of one version of theism, this is still not that impressive. After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The Big Bang becomes strong support for God only with an argument showing that such a beginning requires a Creator.” IfsWorldMeanDoeStillsEndsBigsReligionTurnsUniverseCoursesStrongVisionSupportSuccessfulArgumentCreatorVersionsClockTargetCommentPredictionsTheologianEnd Of The WorldBangsImpressiveExaggeratedApocalypticTheismStopped Clock Author:Taner Edis
“A hydrogen bomb, for me, was puny compared to the Big Bang - the creation of the universe. That's what I really wanted to work on - the nature of the universe itself, and that's what I do for a living.” BigsWantedUniverseCreationBombsBangsHydrogenHydrogen BombCreation Of The Universe Author:Michio Kaku
“String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.” ShowsBigsUniverseStarsPrinciplesMastersTheoryHappeningsReflectionHeavenlyStringsGalaxyEquationsBangsWondrousMajesticFranticBinarySwirlsWaltzString TheoryQuarks Book:The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
“There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.” MayBigsUniverseResultsHappenedCreatingVariousLocationBangsExpanseSwellingSpatial Author:Brian Greene
“No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.” KnowsBigsLawUniverseEvidenceTestsPhysicsBangsLaws Of Physics Author:Michio Kaku
“Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper.” YearsMayUniverseStarsSpaceGoneHellDiedBackgroundsCosmosRefugeFrozenExtinctionBangsTemperatureSpace TravelCoolingAll Stars Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe” IfsKnowsBigsUniverseTheoryListsGoogleBangsSitcomGoogle Search Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“One theory is that the universe came from nothing. i.e. perhaps bubble-universes collided, as in a bubble bath, and gave birth to the universe. Or perhaps the big bang was created by a bubble-universe which split into two universes. The universe does seem to be compatible with nothing.” DoeTwoBigsSeemsUniverseTheoryBirthBubblesSplitsBangsBathsCompatibleBubble Bath Author:Michio Kaku
“Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.” ThinkingBigsUniverseModernTheoryHappeningsStringsBubblesInflationBangsCollideMultiverseString TheoryFission Author:Michio Kaku
“God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"” MatterBigsLightUniverseHeavenHellOppositesClaimsIncludingBangsHeaven And HellAntimatter Author:Dan Brown
“Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.” MayLittlesBigsScienceUniverseSoundWonderWeekTheoryPracticalsGoing AwayApplicationBangsCalculationsDilbert Author:Scott Adams