Another source of noise is the homogeneous cosmic background radiation, believed to be a remnant from the creation of the universe.
"The Tree of Life," Terrence Malick's fifth feature, the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May, encompasses the entirety of time, from the creation of the universe to a celestial vision of the afterlife.
The cosmological constant, first invoked by Albert Einstein to correct what he took to be a flaw in his theory of gravity, would be relic energy from the creation of the universe, a product of high-energy physics.
His most famous image may be the gargantuan mural, showing events from the creation of the universe to men walking on the Moon, on the south lobby wall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington.
The stories are told in chronological order from the creation of the universe (the first metamorphosis, of chaos into order) to the death and deification of Julius Caesar (the culminating metamorphosis, again of chaos that is, the Civil War into order that is, the Augustan Peace).
"I was once talking to an astronomer," he reasons, "who said to me 'apart from the creation of the universe, there is absolutely no evidence of the existence of God.' As I said: 'The prosecution rests!'" Hmmm … time to move on to his Lord of the Rings analogy for Nick Clegg, which he unveiled last week, declaring that the Lib Dem leader was like Frodo.
"To my knowledge, the first serious suggestion that the creation of the universe from nothing could be described in scientific terms was the 1973 paper by Edward Tryon".
Astronomers suspect that these intense bursts come from the most powerful explosions known since the Big Bang, the theorized explosion at the creation of the universe.
