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Stories about: big rip

What was Before the Universe? The Big Bang theory says that the universe began at T=0 as it suffered a sudden expansion into space-time, from a singularity-like object of zero volume but of infinite mass and density. So what was before that? Certainly, things do not just appear out of nowhere. Some kind of structure must have preceded the current... 10 April 2008 02:37 GMT Is the Universe Really Expanding? Geza Dyuk, the director of Astronomy at the Adler Planetarium, says that the universe is indeed expanding. Incredibly, even the great German physicist Albert Einstein didn't know for certain if the universe was expanding or contracting, at the time when he published his Theory of Relativity back in 1905. So, whi... 19 January 2008 03:40 GMT