A bold new study from researchers in Spain and Italy reimagines the universe’s earliest moments, proposing that gravitational waves—not inflation—sparked the cosmos into being. Using advanced computer simulations, the team connects general relativity with quantum mechanics in a simple, verifiable model based on De Sitter space. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com
Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and quantum mechanics may alone explain the structure of the cosmos. This elegant approach challenges traditional Big Bang interpretations and revives a century-old idea rooted in Einstein’s work.
How did the universe come into existence, and what early processes shaped everything that followed? A new study published in Physical Review Research takes aim at this fundamental question. Scientists from Spain and Italy have introduced a model that reimagines what happened moments after the universe was born. Their approach could upend long-standing ideas about the forces and events that governed the universe's earliest evolution.
