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Breakthrough Simulations Illuminate Big Bang and Inflation Theories

11/23/2025

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Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) researchers use numerical relativity to simulate the Big Bang and Cosmic Inflation, solving Einstein’s equations where traditional methods fail.
Professor Eugene Lim (King’s College London) emphasizes the approach’s potential to address long-standing issues in string theories.
Numerical solutions may reveal insights about inflation, which is not a complete theory.
Advances in computational power drive this research, as detailed in Living Reviews in Relativity.

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Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) researchers use numerical relativity to simulate the Big Bang and Cosmic Inflation, solving Einstein’s equations where traditional methods fail.
Professor Eugene Lim (King’s College London) emphasizes the approach’s potential to address long-standing issues in string theories.
Numerical solutions may reveal insights about inflation, which is not a complete theory.
Advances in computational power drive this research, as detailed in Living Reviews in Relativity.