https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/28/cosmic-dawn-astronomers-detect-signals-from-first-stars-in-the-universe
My daughter emailed me the above link.
Writers of cosmological sf, including Poul Anderson, have incorporated stellar evolution into the plots of novels. It seems that physicists have now detected the very beginning of that evolution.
Cosmic Dawn would make a good title for an sf novel although the phrase has already been used for at least two works of non-fiction. See the attached images.
I have no idea how the new discoveries can be incorporated into fiction but then I would not have been able to write
The Avatar or
Tau Zero either. Both of these novels by Poul Anderson describe a cosmic journey and the beginning of a universe. The journeys are by
T-machines and
time dilation, respectively. The time dilation occurs in an accelerating
Bussard ramjet. Neither of these novels invokes "hyperspace" although Anderson also imagined different versions of that. His future history series, the History of Technic Civilization, addresses the rise and fall of civilizations against the backdrop of galaxies, spiral arms, pulsars and supernovae. Hopefully, Anderson's many successors can meet the challenge of the Cosmic Dawn.
