The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, but we cannot describe what goes on in that event. We can’t accurately call it a moment; time as we know it did not exist. Our science stops making sense ...

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the big bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...