You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative ...

The Many-Worlds Interpretation Proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics is as mind-boggling as it is fascinating. It suggests that all ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

According to this theory, the universe began as an infinitely small ... in an infinitesimally small singularity, a point of infinite denseness and heat. You may like 'Cosmic inflation:' did ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

Alex Keshavarzi digs into the showdown between two competing Standard Model predictions of the muon, which may reveal undiscovered particles hiding in the vacuum ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying how ...

The universe may not be infinite or flat. Physicist Glenn Starkman and his team propose it could have a complex topology, possibly shaped like a 3-torus, resembling a hyperdimensional doughnut.