INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG.

INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG. My first post on this blog was about the marvel that I felt that background radiation in our skies was evidence of the Big Bang. It was amazing to me that scientists had information going back to a time so close to the Big Bang. This article in the New Yorker (March 17) by Laurence Krauss tells about how scientists may have gotten even closer to the Big Bang—in fact, says Krauss, “a million billion billion billion billion billion times closer to the Big Bang than any previous direct observation”. The Cosmic Microwave Background, which I wrote about in that first post, provided information from a period “only” three hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. The new information would go back to 10 to the minus thirty-fifth seconds after the Big Bang (take that as an extremely small fraction of a second).