Clues

These are the 47 clues the detective uses to solve the problem of what happened before the Big Bang. Can you figure out how the universe began?

The Atomic Matrioshka Problem Image source: Trish - http://matryoshkaslovers.blogspot.ca/

The Atomic Matrioshka Problem

The Background Problem Image source: Filebay - http://filebay.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=61847642

The Background Problem

The Boundary Problem Image source: Sloan Digital Sky Survey - http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr1/en/astro/universe/images/evol_model.jpg

The Boundary Problem

The Coincidence Problem Image source: Caltech - http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll/Carroll1.html

The Coincidence Problem

The Curse of Continuity Image source: Patrick Len - http://waiferx.blogspot.ca/2011_12_01_archive.html

The Curse of Continuity

The Direction of Time Image source: Tufts University - http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/spring2001/cosmos.html

The Direction of Time

The Flatness Problem Image source: NASA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:End_of_universe.jpg

The Flatness Problem

The Horizon Problem Image source: MK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horizon_problem.png

The Horizon Problem

The Lumps Problem Image source: European Space Agency - http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39806

The Lumps Problem

The Measurement Problem Image source: Yale Scientific - http://www.yalescientific.org/2012/05/one-of-the-many-quirks-of-quantum/

The Measurement Problem

The Missing Monopoles Image source: Discovery News - http://news.discovery.com/space/on-the-trail-of-magnetic-monopoles.html

The Missing Monopoles

The Mystery of Superposition Image source: Akira Tonomura - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Double-slit_experiment_results_Tanamura_2.jpg

The Mystery of Superposition

The Mystery of the Missing Bang Image source: Gary S Chapman - http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/before-big-bang.htm

The Mystery of the Missing Bang

The Observer Problem Image source: University of Sydney - http://sydney.edu.au/time/leggett-lecture.htm

The Observer Problem

The Problem of Antimatter Image source: Quantum Diaries - http://www.quantumdiaries.org/tag/lhcb/page/2/

The Problem of Antimatter

The Problem of Dark Energy Image source: National Geographic - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/47967737.html

The Problem of Dark Energy

The Problem of Filling Space Image source: University of Chicago - http://cosmicweb.uchicago.edu/images/mov/s02_0.gif

The Problem of Filling Space

The Problem of Inertia Image source: Society of Women Engineers - http://www.swe.org/iac/lp/inertia_02.html

The Problem of Inertia

The Problem of Kaluza and Klein Image source: University of Amsterdam - http://www.nat.vu.nl/~wimu/FundConst-Notes.html

The Problem of Kaluza and Klein

The Problem of Mathematics Image source: Davis & Elkins College - http://www.dewv.edu/mathematics

The Problem of Mathematics

The Problem of Parameters Image source: University of Cambridge - http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/crystallography3/parameters.php

The Problem of Parameters

The Problem of Perfection Image source: Om Warrior - http://inspireusall.wordpress.com/tag/perfection/

The Problem of Perfection

The Problem of Small Numbers Image source: MIT - http://www.gphysics.net/index.php/atomic-physics

The Problem of Small Numbers

The Problem of the Cosmic Constant Image source: Rice University - http://spacsun.rice.edu/~baring/astr360/astr360_universe.html

The Problem of the Cosmic Constant

The Problem of the Indefatigable Aether Image source: California Institute of Technology - http://preposterousuniverse.com/

The Problem of the Indefatigable Aether

The Problem of the Initial Condition Image source: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - http://www.einstein-online.info/spotlights/quantum_cosmo_path_integrals

The Problem of the Initial Condition

The Problem of the Missing Holes Image source: NASA - legacy.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-17/index.shtml

The Problem of the Missing Holes

The Problem of the One and the Many Image source: Shakko - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeno_of_Citium_pushkin.jpg

The Problem of the One and the Many

The Problem of the Second Law Image source: L-L Boilly - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sadi_Carnot.jpeg

The Problem of the Second Law

The Problem of the Special Frame Image source: Superborsuk - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relativity_an_apple_in_a_lift.png

The Problem of the Special Frame

The Problem of the Speed of Light Image source: BBC - http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121003-can-we-travel-faster-than-light

The Problem of the Speed of Light

The Problem of the Three Dimensions Image source: Discovery News - http://news.discovery.com/space/why-does-our-universe-have-three-dimensions-120119.html

The Problem of the Three Dimensions

The Problem of Two Theories Image source: CERN - http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/about-higgs-boson

The Problem of Two Theories

The Problem of Under-Determination Image source: KTH School of Computing - http://www.csc.kth.se/~hedvig/research.html

The Problem of Under-Determination

The Problem of Whether Reality Is Real Image source: Mix Grill - http://www.mixgrill.gr/kg107el_stistepatoyeltragoydioy.html

The Problem of Whether Reality Is Real

The Problem of Whether Space is Something Image source: John Lund/Riser/Getty - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228392.700-light-pulled-out-of-empty-space.html

The Problem of Whether Space is Something

The Problem with Inflation Image source: NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/wmap_pol.html

The Problem with Inflation

The Problems with Gravity Image source: United States Geological Survey - http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/definition/grav.html

The Problems with Gravity

The Reality of Non-Locality Image source: Poet1960 - http://poet1960.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72

The Reality of Non-Locality

The Reason for Smoothness Image source: U.S. Department of Energy - http://science.energy.gov/hep/research/questions-for-the-universe/the-birth-of-the-universe/

The Reason for Smoothness

The Riddle of Rotation Image source: Jace Daniel - http://jaced.com/2005/06/21/rotating-snake-illusion/

The Riddle of Rotation

The Singularity Problem Image source: Madeira High School - http://madeira.hccanet.org/project1_2011/snyderp1/theories.html

The Singularity Problem

The Spooky Action Problem Image source: World Science Festival - http://worldsciencefestival.com/events/spooky_action

The Spooky Action Problem

The Troubles with Strings Image source: The Science Classroom - https://thescienceclassroom.wikispaces.com/String+Theory

The Troubles with Strings

The Troubles with Times Image source: E Anka - http://www.sxc.hu/photo/32652

The Troubles with Times

The Vacuum Catastrophe Image source: Imgur Albums - imgur.com/a/fvDsi

The Vacuum Catastrophe

The Zeros and Infinities Image source: Math Is Fun - mathsisfun.com/numbers/infinity.html

The Zeros and Infinities