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A Burst to See (4/5/2008)

Observing the distant Universe with the unaided eye ...> Full Article

Possible Cosmic Defect May Be a Window into the Early Universe (10/26/2007)

An unusual cold spot in the oldest radiation in the universe, the cosmic microwave background, may be caused by a cosmic defect created just after the Big Bang, a Spanish and U.K. research team reports in Science Express. ...> Full Article

Physicist Explores What Happened Before The Big Bang (7/1/2007)

New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early online edition of the journal Nature Physics on July 1 and will be published in the August issue of the journal's print edition. "My paper introduces a new mathematical model that we can use to derive new details about the properties of a quantum state as it travels through the Big Bounce, which replaces the classical idea of a Big Bang as the beginning of our universe," said Martin Bojowald, assistant professor of physics at Penn State. Bojowald's research also suggests that, although it is possible to learn about many properties of the earlier universe, people always will be uncertain about some of these properties because his calculations reveal a "cosmic forgetfulness" that results from the extreme quantum forces during the Big Bounce. ...> Full Article