Finalist Tweets in the Best Science Tweet Competition to Explain the Origins of the Universe

  • First: heat and density. Then: BANG! And now: hydrogen exists, galaxies flee, cosmic radiation bombards us
  • Nada. Combusta. Compressti. Balloonda. Cool
  • Haiku: the universe began | we know not whence it came | It has no pedigree
  • The 'uni' 'verse' – a Finnish lyric, describing dreams or sleep; or a single line of Latin poetry (resembling one such tweet).
  • Infinite nothing is unstable and spontaneously manifests energy because a little bit of something here and there has lower entropy.

And the Winner is...


@Skelly500

  • Nada. Combusta. Compressti. Balloonda. Cool

Cyclone Computers Best Science Tweet Competition – Win an iPad2


ScienceTeller is running a competition for the best tweet that can: explain the origins of the Universe

Rules


  1. Use the hash tag #scitell in your tweet and post on twitter
  2. To be eligible to win the iPad: all those entering must be "following" @ScienceTeller
  3. All entries must be tweeted by midnight Tuesday 15 November to qualify
  4. A constantly updated list of submitted tweets will be viewable at scienceteller.com/tweet
  5. Those tweets selected by the competition panel for consideration will be posted in a list below of Selected Tweets
  6. You will be able to vote for your favourite tweets at scienceteller.com/tweet from Wednesday 16 November until noon Saturday 19 November
  7. Professor Lawrence Krauss*, author of the forthcoming book A Universe from Nothing, will then select the winning tweet from the five tweets receiving the highest number of votes
  8. The deliberation of the judges will be final
  9. The author of the winning tweet will be notified by a message via their Twitter account name