Ask Terence McKenna

...true. It seems to me one of the embarrassments of science is that the big bang begins with a singularity, And, so then, you have this whole vast int...

...he level at which we see it. And it would suggest that, to modify the big bang theory, that before there was a big bang there would have to be a Big...

...17-billion year long vacuum fluctuation. What it means then is at the big bang, not one universe was born, but two. They sailed off into the supersp...

...rse was born in the dubious and controversial circumstance called the big bang, it was at first simply a pure plasma of electrons. It was the simple...

...f articles that were around last week, about what they’re calling the big bang of Biology: that there was a period of time – incredibly brief, perha...

...rything you say is right. One thing, I don’t think this notion of the big bang – and I’m not sure whether I subscribe to the big bang model – but, i...

...ed to be in physics that they had one singularity. It was called the “big bang.” And so you say, “Well, one singularity.” Essentially what science i...

...t the beginning of the universe but at the end. So, I call it not the big bang but the big surprise. What’s happening is that process is complexifyi...

...e inherit from physics, uh, has - it opens with something called 'The big bang'. Interestingly the way science operates is it says "Give us one free...

...u can see that the early universe immediately after the hypothesised 'big bang', was an incredibly simple place. There were no organisms, there were...

...imilar to the inflationary expansion that occurred at the time of the big bang. What would this look like? What would it feel like? Nobody can even ...

... all particles were once intimately associated in an event called the big bang, it means that the universe, in all of its vastness, billions of ligh...

... engine. And that from the very first moments of that most improbable big bang, novelty has been conserved because in the very beginning there was o...

...oduction of novelty. It always has been since the first moment of the big bang, 20 to 25 billion years ago. Simpler states have been replaced by mor...

... 6th 1945 over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. And at that moment the big bang - Its tiny parallelism. It’s little self in the world of history was ...

...n since the very beginning of the universe. Immediately following the big bang there was only the possibility of nuclear interaction, and then, as t...