Big bang Quote by Lawrence M. Krauss

“thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,”

— Jerome Pohlen

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had…

— Walther Bothe

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic…

— Victor Francis Hess

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very…

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“Before the particles that we observe today materialized, all matter in the early universe must have gone through this stage of a quark-gluon soup,…

— Henning Genz

“The same energy density that we reach today in electron-positron collisions pervaded the entire universe one ten-billionth of a second after the Big Bang.…

— Henning Genz

The universe contains protons, neutrons, electrons and morons.

— Babloo

“At a temperature of 10^10 degrees, the energy of the photons of the electromagnetic/thermal radiation becomes that needed for the creations of an electron-positron…

— Henning Genz

“Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were “elementary” particles, but experiments in which protons were collided with…

— Stephen Hawking

“Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and their antimatter…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson