The Physics of Nothingness: What Existed Before the Universe?

What came before the universe? It is perhaps the most haunting question in all of science—a question that lingers at the border between physics and philosophy, where imagination and mathematics meet. For as long as humans have stared into the night sky, we have wondered about the beginning. How did something arise from nothing? Did … Read more

What Existed Before the Big Bang — Absolute Nothing or Something Else?

There are few questions more profound than this: What existed before the Big Bang? It is a question that challenges the limits of human understanding, the boundaries of physics, and even the nature of existence itself. It invites us to peer beyond the curtain of time, to imagine a “before” where perhaps time itself did … Read more

What Are Exoplanets? Discovering New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System

For millennia, humanity gazed at the night sky and wondered whether we were alone. The stars glittered like scattered jewels upon a velvet expanse, each one distant, mysterious, and—until recently—utterly unreachable. Philosophers speculated that other worlds might circle those distant suns, harboring beings and landscapes beyond imagination. Yet for all our dreams, the existence of … Read more

The Enigma of Vacuum Energy: Why Isn’t the Universe Exploding?

If we could strip the universe of all matter—all stars, planets, and particles—what would remain? The intuitive answer is “nothing.” Yet, according to modern physics, this answer is profoundly wrong. Even in absolute emptiness, there exists something extraordinary: vacuum energy, the restless heartbeat of the void itself. Far from being empty, space seethes with invisible … Read more

Before the Big Bang: What Sparked the Cosmic Dawn

Every human culture, from the earliest storytellers around firelight to modern cosmologists armed with satellites and supercomputers, has asked the same haunting question: Where did everything come from? The night sky, with its silent immensity, has always provoked a sense of wonder and unease. Stars appear eternal, yet even they are born and die. Galaxies … Read more