Mathematics Tackles Chaotic Big Bang Question
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 17:49
in Physics & Chemistry
We want to know some things in science are absolute yet we accept that a lot is relative. The speed of light is absolute and so the same with respect to any observer in empty space but sound is relative, like when a train whistle goes from high to low as it passes the observer. A longstanding quest in physics has been to determine whether chaos, in which tiny events lead to very large changes in the time evolution of a system, such as the universe, is absolute or relative in systems governed by general relativity, where the time itself is relative. Like right after the Big Bang. read more