Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess we're starting a winning tradition," captain Jared Leake (five points, four assists) said. "This way the seniors can go out with a bang...
...space; the Great Attractor, a mysterious concentration of mass hauling much of the local universe off in the direction of the constellations Hydra and Centaurus; Great Voids, where few galaxies can be found; and galaxies caught in the throes of formation a mere billion years after the Big Bang, when they should not yet exist. "If we really trust the data," exclaims Stanford astrophysicist Andrei Linde, "then we are in disaster, and we must do something absolutely crazy...
Cosmologists can now say with some confidence that the universe started out in a very hot and very dense state somewhere between 8 billion and 25 billion years ago, and that it has been expanding outward ever since-the Big Bang in a nutshell. They believe galaxies are strewn around the cosmos not randomly but according to a pattern that includes some patches with lots of galaxies and others with very few. They believe the universe is pervaded by mysterious dark matter, whose gravity has dominated cosmic history from the start...
...though, the theorists will have to rethink their position in a hurry. One explanation for the observation would be that galaxies are being pulled toward a concentration of mass so huge that it would make the Great Attractor look like a joke. Another might be that the Big Bang may have been lopsided, so that the universe has more energy and mass in some sectors than in others. In that case, the anomalous motion is an illusion...
Scientists have confirmed the existence of the so-called "top quark," a basic building block of nature dating from the time of the "big bang" that helped begin the formation of galaxies between 8 billion and 25 billion years ago. Physicists at Energy Department's Fermi National Laboratory near Chicago announced they verified evidence of the missing subatomic particle, without which scientists' theories of time and matter would simply fall apart. "This provides a sense of relief," says TIME senior science writer Michael Lemonick, who notes that the top quark completes a set of six oddly-named particles that account...