13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO, THE BIG BANG KICKED THINGS OFF. In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the distances to far-away galaxies were proportional to their redshifts. Subsequent calculations have dated this Big Bang to approximately 13.7 billion years ago. The last...
An event that begins to exist has a cause. The current event has caused the universe to begin. This universe has a First Cause. An event cause that has to be outside of the universe An event that is capable of generating all the matter and energy within the universe....
Something is seriously wrong with gravity, and nobody’s quite sure why. The problem is that gravity is too weak. Out of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe—gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force, and the weak force—gravity is by far the...
The Milky Way: Out of an estimated 100 billion stars in our galaxy, no more than 14 may be made from antimatter. Antistars, which are identical to regular stars, save because they would burn antimatter at their cores. Antimatter is precisely like ordinary matter,...
Quintessence is an energy field that can change over time. It changes slowly and almost constantly. It is a property of space itself. During its slow walk, gravity ties the galaxies together into gigantic pods. When gravity can no longer hold things...
