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God Behind the Big Bang, Pope Says

The Big Bang was an act of God, with divine will bringing the universe into being, Pope Benedict XVI told a gathering of Catholics at the Vatican. "The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said Thursday, according to Reuters. "Contemplating it [the universe], we are...

Scientists Claim 'Big Breakthrough' in Antimatter Hunt

GENEVA (Nov. 18) -- Scientists claimed a breakthrough Thursday in solving one of the biggest riddles of physics, successfully trapping the first "anti-atom" in a quest to understand what happened to all the antimatter that has vanished since the Big Bang. An international team of physicists at the European Organization...

Scientists Look to Recreate Big Bang

(Nov. 5) -- Talk about a trip back in time. Scientists have always wondered what it was like at the moment of and immediately after the creation of the universe, generally known as the Big Bang. Soon, they may find out. By using the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider, or...

Large Hadron Collider Gets 'Intimate' With New Physics Experiments

(Sept. 22) -- Big news from the so-called "Big Bang machine" today: Proton beam collisions produced separate particles that flew away from one another but remained "intimately linked," according to scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), who observed the effect in the Large Hadron Collider...

Scientists Seek an Even Bigger Atom Smasher

(July 26) -- Physicists responsible for the record-setting atom smasher that helped researchers move closer to understanding the origins of the universe earlier this year now say they're going to need a bigger bang. Scientists meeting in Paris today at the International Conference on High Energy Physics unveiled plans for...