3 Theories That Might Blow Up the Big Bang: In the standard interpretation of the Big Bang, which took shape in the 1960s, the formative event was not an explosion that occurred at some point in space and time—it was an explosion of space and time. In this view, time did not exist beforehand. Even for many researchers in the field, this was a bitter pill to swallow. It is hard to imagine time just starting: How does a universe decide when it is time to pop into existence? [Discover]
The Big Bang: what will we find?: The expert opinion on what the atom-smashing machine may tell us. There is lot of feverish speculation about what will happen when the Large Hadron Collider starts humankind’s biggest effort ever to shed light on the fundamentals of the universe. Will the Geneva-based effort reveal why most sub-atomic particles have mass (probably signalled by the appearance of something called the Higgs particle)? Will the vast experiment reveal why nature prefers matter over anti-matter? [Telegraph]
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