Causes Quote by Stephen Hawking

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago.…

— Saul Perlmutter

If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern…

— Neil Turok

“Newton, whose thinking we will discuss in the next chapter, considers the universe as infinite in extent. Gravitation would have all masses collapse into…

— Henning Genz

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

— Stephen Hawking

“Universes that expand too slowly will collapse back to a big crunch before galaxies can form; universes that expand too quickly do not allow…

— John D. Barrow

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

— Robert Smithson

Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this…

— Joao Magueijo

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn't have…

— Stephen Hawking

To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first…

— Olaf Stapledon

Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.

— Leonard Susskind

We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is…

— Adam Riess