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The Big Bang: Radiation Era and Hydrogen Fusing to Helium
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Could Black Holes Lead to New Universes?
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Center of the universe the origin of the big bang?
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Could the Supernova Shock Wave That Created Our Solar System Still Be Detected?
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The Universe is expanding, but why aren't we?
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Berman's zero energy condition for universe
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Planck satellite, gravitational waves
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What does SR say about the expanding universe?
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Is the Multiverse Hypothesis Losing Steam in Scientific Circles?
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Are Lawrence Krauss' theories accepted in physics academia?
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What Lies Beyond the Expanding Universe?
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Where Did the Big Bang Occur?
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What Are the Implications of Vacuum Fluctuations for the Big Bang Theory?
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How Can We Quantify Homogeneity in Physical Systems?
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Is accelerated expansion creating energy
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Big bangs & macroquantic - two questions
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How Did the First Proton Emerge from the Big Bang?
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Does the number of galaxies change with time?
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What Is the Diameter of the Observable Universe?
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Unraveling the Chaos: Examining the Birth and Behavior of the Universe
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Space Time Expansion: How Galaxies Formed
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Is Newton's Law a Result of Constant Volumetric Expansion?
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Is eternal inflation possible in LQC?
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Dark matter/Dark antimatter Asymmetry?
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Dark Matter: Interacting Particles & Gravitational Forces
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Is the proper distance the shortest distance in FLRW universe?
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Why Doesn't Dark Energy Expand Galaxies?
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Good Introductory Book/Article to Dark Energy?
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Why Doesn't the Comoving Hubble Length Always Increase?
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Question about the expansion of space.
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Need Help Writing a Sci-Fi Film Plot with Astronomy
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Did all 10^80 particles exist after the first 3 minutes?
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Life in the process of universe: the goal or just a side effect?
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Is the universe 13.7 Billion years old? There seems to be a contradiction
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An Infinite Lapse of Time is Impossible and Unscientific
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Is the Expanding Universe Affecting Our Solar System?
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Is this a misleading representation of boomerang results
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CERN particle announcement related to dark matter / energy?
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Why Are Galaxies Rushing Apart According to Weinberg's First Three Minutes?
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How Flat is Our Universe Really?
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Questioning Hubble's Law: Does the Expanding Universe Theory Hold Up?
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Cosmological expansion vs. stretching
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Dark energy related to 10-dimensional universe
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Could the Universe Have Regions of Expansion and Collapse?
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Imposssible to see light that left a star 13.4 billion yrs ago
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Why is a gravitational field negative energy ?
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Gravity in the Universe: Is There a Weakest Force?
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Would the universe be the same if it was reset?
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Calculating distance from redshift
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In what sense is the standard model enormously successful
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What is the universe itself made of beyond its contents?
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Is Our Universe Just a Balloon in an Infinite Matrix?
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Explosion picture: most common mistake
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Did a Higgs Boson trigger the big bang?
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Critical density in our expanding universe
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Eight steps to the understanding the CEH
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Why is the Universe electrically neutral?
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Higgs & Inflaton: Does New Boson Discovery Change Anything?
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What Does Density Contrast in the Universe Mean in the Context of Chaplygin Gas?
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What is absolute in this universe?
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Is there any cosmological research field concerning signal processing?
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The theory of Cosmological Relativity by Dr. Moshe Carmeli.
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Is Dark Flow Considered a Fringe Theory?
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How does one descibe a co-orbiting system?
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An Infinite Time's Arrow is Impossible and Incompatible with Scientific Theory
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Why are black holes shaped like hurricanes?
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What if Neutron Stars Collide: Matter, Mass & Metal
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Nature and The Universe, How can Nature being conscious, know what it is doing ?
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A could be explenation for the universe but probably not.
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Infinite universe and big bang singularity
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Is the Milne model compatible with Einstein's field equation?
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Just wondering what the latest descriptions of space were.
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With the laws of physics you can get Universes?
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How Does Dark Matter Influence Gravity in Galaxies?
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Why is the Hubble sphere expanding?
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Universe Expansion = Drop in Gravity ?
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Black Hole - Dark Energy and Matter Question
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How much hydrogen has been consumed?
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Traveling to Alfa Centauri at 1/2 the speed of light
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How do we know that 74% of the universe is dark energy?
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Redshift Time and the Start of the Solar System
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Need Help Understanding Expanding Universe
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The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg
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Mirror neutrons all over the science news
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Size of universe and quantity of mass
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10^80 particles in observable v unobservable universe
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Mission to Probe the Universe's Darkest Secrets
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Is the inverse-square law valid for all cosmological distances?
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Carried along by the Hubble flow.
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Tugs from Beyond the Observable Universe
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How does the graph of V(φ) support the concept of slow-roll inflation?
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Spacetime for an anti-black hole?
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Is the Universe Leaking Energy? Tamara M. Davis
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What causes angular momentum in rotating bodies
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Is it possible that antimatter would exert antigravity on matter?
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Does Dark Matter Gather Near Black Holes and Suns?
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Question About Light From the Big Bang
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What Does t→0 Mean in Neutron Freeze-Out?
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Was There Matter or Energy at the Start of the Big Bang?
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Neutron escaping to parallel universe
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