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

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