NOVA: Is it realistic to hope that we can ever fully understand the universe, or is that arrogant in some way? Lykken: A lot of people wonder how far we can push our deep understanding of the ...

An analogy that's used in the NOVA program that I'm quite fond of is: We are certainly aware of intelligent beings on this planet whose capacity to understand the deep laws of the universe is limited.

“I think it will help us understand the universe better,” Bill Gropp, National Center for Supercomputing Center director and U of I professor, said. And it’s all because of a new artificial ...

However, in the first 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was just a hot, dense plasma. But as it cooled, it ...

According to the model, a mysterious entity known as dark energy is supposed to be driving the universe’s expansion at a ...