Considering that our knowledge of them is so rudimentary since they are so hard to actually measure I would venture the guess that yes they would have to be. If you take the analogy of ripples in a pond converging at a point, the individual waves will create a larger and thus altered wave. The...
I agree with Marcus, the whole big bang term really is just an catch phrase that everyone likes to use because its what they've been taught. The new more refined theory uses the term "Inflationary Expansion" which I believe is worlds better than the big bang.
This new term explains to us...
Pretty cool eh :) Based on Einstien's Theory of General Relativity these ripples actually move at the same speed of light which means for example that if our Sun were to just vanish in a split second we would not only see all light fade out 8 minutes after it happened but we would also feel the...
Wouldn't the mean value of the 2.725 \pm 0.0002 degrees K be 2.7250 degrees K since its the mean value of the values given since 2.7252 and 2.7248 are the upper and lower bounds? I don't think I understand your question 100%. Just out of curiosity what exactly is it that you're looking for?
Sorry I forgot to mention that we have begun work on detecting gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) being run by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with generous funding by the National Science...
For a time the idea of gravity waves was akin to that of dark matter and energy, i.e a mysterious thing we saw the effects of but did not see it directly. The biggest reason for this was that gravitational waves themselves are rather minute in how they affect things. That is to say that for...
I suppose it might be similar in a theoretical sense, but then again we do not have an exact dimension as to what the size of the singularity of the black hole might be, ideas yes but nothing concrete.
The idea though that the size of the singularity that the initial inflation started from...
I don't know if I'm too late to add anything to help you with your research paper but I recommend Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" as a good read. He goes into great detail about the holographic universe principle.
Essentially he explains it by saying that each portion of space...
That idea somewhat follows a concept known as the eternal inflationary universe whereby the universe is said to be an infinite thing not something that technically has a beginning nor an end but a continuation of what was before. Of course this does beg the question to where did this begin which...
Good question indeed. I know that due to what we have as far as radiation detectors (our eyes and the technology we've made) we can only detect that which we are familiar with or what is on the electromagnetic spectrum. If we had the ability to see wavelengths somewhere on the ultraviolet...
Based on the idea that when matter is compressed and heated things tend to fuse and go to a “simpler state” the idea is that if one were to compress and heat the very constituents of matter (strings) to a level to which they all fuse. If one were to compress strings to a level in which their...