Cosmology forum

Cosmology (the study of the physical universe) is a science that, due to both theoretical and observational developments, has made enormous strides in the past 100 years.
Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate.
This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe's rate of expansion, and measuring radiation left over from the Big Bang, the so-called cosmic microwave background.

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Are there reliable surveys of the cosmology-religion relations?

2 There are only few reliable surveys of the cosmology-religion relations through history, and even fewer of the modern period in which cosmology became a branch of the astronomical and physical sciences

What do we search for in cosmology?

We search deepest levels of cosmic reality, the big picture of the puzzle of the universe — beginning, size, structure, future, far future

We seek significance in cosmology, if there’s any to be

1 Barry Loewer 2 Mario Livio 3 George F R Ellis

What is the future of cosmology?

Cosmology is the study of how the Universe began and how it will be in future

The Universe may go on getting bigger for ever

But it is also possible that the galaxies may come together and draw back into one place until they collide and rush together into the “Big Crunch”

Scientists will continue to discuss this topic for many years