Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second. As the Big Bang theory goes, somewhere around 13.8 billion years ago the universe exploded into being, as an infinitely small, compact fireball of matter that cooled as it expanded, triggering reactions that cooked up the first … Continue reading Putting the “Bang” in the Big Bang – “Reheating” Universe’s First Fractions of a Second