took one of the most prosaic of behind-the-scenes theater rituals -- the chorus audition -- and turned it into one of the greatest musicals in stage history. The Big Bang takes another unexplored ...

What Came Before The Big Bang?

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

Our understanding of the universe begins with the Big Bang, a moment in time where the universe began expanding into what we see around us now. Big Bang nucleosynthesis describes how only the lightest ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...