What came before creation? New insights into the big bang point to other universes beyond our own.(includes related article on history of big-bang theory)(Cover Story)

U.S. News & World Report | July 20, 1998| | Copyright

New insights into the big bang point to other universes beyond our own

For centuries, men and women have pondered how the stars were called forth. The Roman poet Lucretius assumed the universe to be eternal: How could there ever have been a condition without existence? Theology spoke of a discrete beginning: the book of Genesis reflecting the ancient Hebrew view of six days of cosmic toil; the fourth-century Christian thinker Augustine supposing that time as well as space was created by God at the first moment; the 12th-century Islamic rationalist al-Ghazali ...

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