Nicole Rager Fuller / National Science FoundationWe’re always on the lookout for the next big thing, and even our best guesswork is often terrible at anticipating exactly where it will come from. Wikimedia Commons user Stigmatella aurantiacaThe answer, perhaps surprisingly, is that we're very confident in the entire body of scientific knowledge that we've built up. For the Big Bang to rise to prominence, it had to replace the prior notion of a static Universe. But here’s the important part: that won’t mean that everything about the Big Bang is wrong. The steady state or static Universe theories that seek to supplant the Big Bang?

Source: Forbes April 12, 2019 06:00 UTC