Never mind the big bang; in the beginning was the vacuum. The vacuum simmered with energy (variously called dark energy, vacuum energy, the inflation field, or the Higgs field). Like water in a pot, ...

In the beginning was the bubble: Inflating, in a fraction of a second, from a grain smaller than an atom to a mini-verse the size of a softball. The seeds of all the elaborate particulars of today’s ...

In their article, the scientists propose a new model with dark energy and our Universe riding on an expanding bubble in an extra dimension. (Image: Suvendu Giri) We have known for the past 20 years ...