This paper discussed the possible formation of cosmic strings and other topological defects at phase transitions in
the very early history of the universe.
Not exact matches
At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face
of the earth; we could
very easily suppose that each
of us might equally well have been born
earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the
universe from the beginning to end
of its
history formed in space - time a sort
of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim
of the gardener.
They confirm that massive galaxies already existed
early in the
history of the
universe, but they also show that those galaxies had
very different physical properties from what is seen around us today.
Very early in the
history of the
universe, according to a leading cosmological model, empty space was full
of energy.
Such work could also clarify what happened
very early in the
history of the
universe.
This is a slow process and in the
very earliest galaxies in the
history of the
universe, dust had not yet formed.
The process
of star formation must therefore have started
very early in the
history of the
universe and be associated with the formation
of dust.
Now the researchers hope that future observations
of a large number
of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this
very early epoch
of the
history of the
universe.