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Waterloo Physicists Propose that the Big Bang Naturally Arises From a Simpler Theory of Gravity: No Hypothetical Particles or ad Hoc Patches

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A team from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute (Canada) has published in Physical Review Letters a theory that states that the explosive expansion of the universe in its first moments — what we call Big Bang — naturally emerges from a more complete version of gravity, without the need to add the extra pieces that standard cosmology has needed for decades. The theory is called quantum quadratic gravity (Quadratic Quantum Gravi…
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A team from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute (Canada) has published in Physical Review Letters a theory that states that the explosive expansion of the universe in its first moments — what we call Big Bang — naturally emerges from a more complete version of gravity, without the need to add the extra pieces that standard cosmology has needed for decades. The theory is called quantum quadratic gravity (Quadratic Quantum Gravi…

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WWWhat's new broke the news in on Friday, April 3, 2026.
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