The cosmos was born in the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, and the first stars in the universe are thought to have lit up about 100 million years afterward, when gas finally gathered in clumps dense enough to collapse under their own gravity and ignite nuclear fusion.
Which brings us to one of the things that economists bang on about.
FORBES: The French Don't Seem To Understand This Economics Of Google Thing Really, Do They?
People who bang on about innate differences should remember that variation within subgroups in the population is usually bigger than the variation between subgroups.
Some human rights activists warned that "insults to believers" might include the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution or the Big Bang theory about the universe.
On the one hand, ministers going out of their way to bang on about local authorities having the freedom to make the judgements they see fit.
For a government that likes to bang on about the virtues of using public transport, New Labour, like its predecessors, remains firmly wedded to its official wheels.
The eurozone crisis improved UKIP's standing in the polls and the prime minister had no option but to ignore his own warning not to "bang on about Europe".
Least reassuring of all, the government continues to bang on about Heathrow's lack of capacity, apparently unaware that air-traffic projections made during the longest period of sustained economic growth since British statistics have been comprehensively collected might need to be updated.
For all those who bang on about stop smoking services being a waste of time...tell that to the thousands over 8 years who have added years to their lives and in some cases been around to survive their triple bypass operation!
They resent seeing Mr Blair strutting the world stage and many of them instinctively recoil when Mr Bush and Mr Blair bang on preachily about spreading liberty and democracy.
ECONOMIST: Tony Blair is right to be worried about his unpopularity
Whatever the government says about big bang, its actions so far suggest that little has changed.
Cohen, best known for producing the Big Bang Theory, dated Garofalo for about a year before hitting Vegas one night in 1991.
And developing basic low-cost pollution technology for coal-fired power generation in the third world would probably get more bang for the pollution buck than just about anything else.
We keep hearing about all the latest wizz-bang developments in this area, but frankly we're starting to get impatient.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 9.22.12: Quantum Scotch tape, moving walls and scientific beer
Their simulation starts about 50m years after the Big Bang, when the first galaxies formed, and calculates the interactions of a billion WIMPs over the intervening 13.7 billion years.
ECONOMIST: The search for dark matter: Ethereal yet weighty | The
When he was about 20 yards away I heard a bang and saw him fall to the ground.
And I just wanted to bring your attention -- which I know that you understand fully -- that there's been a lot of conversation about we need to get the biggest bang for our buck.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Closes Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth
But there came a time - about 300, 000 years after the Big Bang - when the matter and radiation "decoupled".
The point here is not to bang you over the head with yet another alarming headline about the future of retirement.
Other pilot shows include Zombieland - based on the film of the same name - featuring four survivors attempting to outwit zombies, while animated comedy Dark Minions, written by Big Bang Theory's Kevin Sussman and John Ross Bowie, is about two "slackers" working on an intergalactic warship.
BBC: Amazon to pilot TV comedies and children's shows online
Aaron Mead, who lives about 100 yards (90m) from the scene, said he heard an "almighty bang".
Say what you will about Walmart and its ongoing sustainability efforts, but it appears that the big box behemoth has done a bang-up job at winning over Portland-area naysayers and NIMBYists who have historically grabbed their torches and tried to chase the company out of town.
FORBES: Portland To Get Massive Green Roof -- Atop A Walmart
应用推荐