Tag: Big Bang cosmology

Cosmic Dance of Gravitational Waves: Abstract representation of two merging black holes, emitting luminous, swirling gravitational waves in a cosmic ballet.

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Bruce Gordon
Date
August 5, 2026

Categorized
Philosophy, Physics

Tagged
Big Bang cosmology, Big Mysteries Survey, Brian Keating, Fine-tuning of the universe, Niayesh Afshordi, Phil Halper}

Polling Physicists: What the Big Mysteries Survey Shows — and Doesn’t

_{Physicists who think that the constants of nature are brute facts without need of explanation simply have an incoherent opinion} _{Bruce Gordon
August 5, 2026

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Philosophy, Physics}

If nature’s beginning has no explanation, the door is left open to embracing unexplained occurrences anywhere in nature, undermining the practice of science.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 7, 2025

Categorized
Philosophy, Physics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein (1879–1955), Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925), Big Bang cosmology, Boris Numerov, Dmitry Eropkin, Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925–2010), George Gamow, Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), God the Science the Evidence (book 2025), Hermann Weyl, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Perepyolkin, Joseph Stalin, Marie Curie, Matvei Bronstein, Max Born, Max Planck (1858–1947), Maximilian Musselius, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, Otto Stern, Vladimir Fock}

When the Big Bang Cost Physicists Their Lives

_{A new book from France tells the astonishing story of how governments murdered or drove out scientists to hush up the reality that our universe has a beginning} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 7, 2025

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Philosophy, Physics}

I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.

“Nature of the Universe” Questions That Still Puzzle Physicists

_{What would go wrong if we just accepted that we live in a universe designed by a Mind far greater than ours? Would that really be the end of science?} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 21, 2025

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Cosmology, Philosophy, Religion}

Or just an end to conundrums that aren’t really conundrums if that fact is faced. There is a lot we could be doing with the same expenditure of time, energy, and intellectual skill.