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The Instant of Creation I t is impossible to know precisely how, out of nothing, the universe began to exist. According to the big bang theory—the theory most widely accepted in the scientific community—in the beginning, there appeared an infinitely...

Using the cosmic background radiation – the “echo of the Big Bang*” – as a random number generation isn't a new idea, but a couple of scientists have run the slide-rule over measurements of the CMB power spectrum and reckon it offers a random number...

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server Is The CMB Telling Us That Dark Matter Is Weaker Than Weakly Interacting?

arXiv:1403.7507 by: Palti, Eran Abstract: The recent discovery of B-mode polarizations in the CMB by the BICEP2 collaboration motivates the study of large-field inflation models which can naturally lead to significant tensor-to-scalar ratios. A class...

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