But what happened before inflation? The answer takes us deep into the nature of reality itself, and face to face with a time called the Planck era. To probe the Planck era, we must first bridge an ...

Planck is a European Space Agency mission ... many of which have traveled uninterrupted into the modern era. While these photons were in the ultraviolet range at the time of recombination ...

"We are very excited about the results as Planck gives us a chance to peek into the unknown." Scientists can look at the light from this era to determine the basic characteristics of the universe.

This May, UC Davis will host back-to-back conferences on "Mining the Cosmic Frontier in the Planck Era" (May 20-22) and "Fundamental Questions in Cosmology" (May 22-24). These will be the first ...

This may be the end of the Planck era. But the largest questions posed by studying the CMB continue to go unanswered. [ESA] ...

For more than four years the Planck satellite collected information from the electromagnetic radiation left over from the Big Bang, known as the ‘cosmic microwave background’. Now, an ...

A transformative era in cosmological science ended this week when the European Space Agency’s Planck telescope released its final maps of the early Universe. Planck was the last in a line of ...

In 1878—before Einstein was born, before quantum mechanics, before we knew that our galaxy was one among many—a well-known physicist named Phillip von Jolly told young Max Planck, a student ...

These were the laws of quantum mechanics, and they got their name from the work of Max Planck. "An Act of Desperation" In 1900, Max Planck was a physicist in Berlin studying something called the ...