Sentences with phrase «theories about cosmology»

Now, that's actually rather important info for our current theories about cosmology (i.e. how the universe progressed from the Big Bang up into its current observed state).

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St. Augustine's deep reflections in this area led Bertrand Russell to praise his «admirable relativistic theory of time», and Steven Weinberg has noted that «it seems to have become a tradition to quote from [Augustine's Confessions] in writing about quantum cosmology.»

Steinhardt points out that inflationary theory in cosmology is supposed to be highly predictive, yet in this set of observations the realisation that gravitational waves have not actually been detected seems not to have caused any doubt about the theory.

Recent progress in cosmology, string theory and quantum mechanics, though, has brought about a change of heart.

These developments make some physicists optimistic that string cosmology is coming close to realizing the hopes of 18th - century French philosopher Pierre - Simon Laplace, who believed there existed a theory from which we could derive everything there is to know about the universe.

Cambridge, MA About Blog Research in the Department seeks to explore and explain fundamental questions that range from understanding the origin of the universe, including string theory, cosmology, and astrophysics, to understanding the visible world of colloids and the world on an ever diminishing scale, from the mesoscale to the nanoscale, condensed matter, and atomic, molecular and particle physics.