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2007-01-12 01:37:18 · 10 answers · asked by amruthvc 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.

2007-01-12 01:39:29 · answer #1 · answered by DanE 7 · 0 0

One way to understand the concept of an expanding universe is to draw dots, representing galaxies, on a balloon. As the balloon is inflated, each dot moves away from all the others. To a person viewing the universe from a galaxy, all other galaxies would seem to be receding. The distant galaxies appear to be moving away faster than the near ones, which demonstrates Hubble’s law. Most astronomers now believe that this expansion will continue forever.
Big Bang Theory, currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the universe. The big bang theory proposes that the universe was once extremely compact, dense, and hot. Some original event, a cosmic explosion called the big bang, occurred about 13.7 billion years ago, and the universe has since been expanding and cooling. The theory is based on the mathematical equations, known as the field equations, of the general theory of relativity set forth in 1915 by Albert Einstein. In 1922 Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann provided a set of solutions to the field equations. These solutions have served as the framework for much of the current theoretical work on the big bang theory. American astronomer Edwin Hubble provided some of the greatest supporting evidence for the theory with his 1929 discovery that the light of distant galaxies was universally shifted toward the red end of the spectrum . Once “tired light” theories—that light slowly loses energy naturally, becoming more red over time—were dismissed, this shift proved that the galaxies were moving away from each other. Hubble found that galaxies farther away were moving away proportionally faster, showing that the universe is expanding uniformly. However, the universe’s initial state was still unknown.
The big bang theory seeks to explain what happened at or soon after the beginning of the universe. Scientists can now model the universe back to 10-43 seconds after the big bang. For the time before that moment, the classical theory of gravity is no longer adequate. Scientists are searching for a theory that merges gravity (as explained by Einstein's general theory of relativity) and quantum mechanics but have not found one yet. Many scientists have hope that string theory, also known as M-theory, will tie together gravity and quantum mechanics and help scientists explore further back in time. Because scientists cannot look back in time beyond that early epoch, the actual big bang is hidden from them. There is no way at present to detect the origin of the universe. Further, the big bang theory does not explain what existed before the big bang. It may be that time itself began at the big bang, so that it makes no sense to discuss what happened “before” the big bang . According to the big bang theory, the universe expanded rapidly in its first microseconds. A single force existed at the beginning of the universe, and as the universe expanded and cooled, this force separated into those we know today: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. A theory called the electroweak theory now provides a unified explanation of electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force theory. Physicists are now searching for a grand unification theory to also incorporate the strong nuclear force. String theory seeks to incorporate the force of gravity with the other three forces, providing a theory of everything (TOE). One widely accepted version of big bang theory includes the idea of inflation. In this model, the universe expanded much more rapidly at first, to about 1050 times its original size in the first 10-32 second, then slowed its expansion. The theory was advanced in the 1980s by American cosmologist Alan Guth and elaborated upon by American astronomer Paul Steinhardt, Russian American scientist Andrei Linde, and British astronomer Andreas Albrecht. The inflationary universe theory solves a number of problems of cosmology. For example, it shows that the universe now appears close to the type of flat space described by the laws of Euclid’s geometry: We see only a tiny region of the original universe, similar to the way we do not notice the curvature of the earth because we see only a small part of it. The inflationary universe also shows why the universe appears so homogeneous. If the universe we observe was inflated from some small, original region, it is not surprising that it appears uniform.
Once the expansion of the initial inflationary era ended, the universe continued to expand more slowly. The inflationary model predicts that the universe is on the boundary between being open and closed. If the universe is open, it will keep expanding forever. If the universe is closed, the expansion of the universe will eventually stop and the universe will begin contracting until it collapses. Whether the universe is open or closed depends on the density, or concentration of mass, in the universe. If the universe is dense enough, it is closed.

2007-01-12 03:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by meryl_shiningstar 2 · 0 0

The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.

In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance.

The big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery.

2007-01-12 03:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by elvisjohn 7 · 0 0

the tremendous bang mathmatically won't be able to be reasoned or justified interior the first nano seconds earlier the actual 'explosion'. This theory is the most broadly excepted theory behind the introduction of the universe (except the bibles genesis) yet in simple terms because it truly is amazingly a lot excepted does not recommend they recognize precisely what they are speaking about. Their are many, many, different theories on how the universe were given began and what the universe is definitely doing. technology is alot of like faith. once a collection of respected human beings say it truly is genuine then the mass jumps on the wagon. i'd remind you the secure State theory replaced into very a lot the important flow interior the 40s to the 60's and nonetheless there are agency believers. i recognize my opinion would not recommend a lot, except i learn astronomy usual, yet in 50 to one hundred years anybody is going to be giggling at what we anticipate of are the solutions. Oh sorry. area has had to continuously exist to a level. Even earlier the tremendous bang. some type of be counted had to reason the explosion. yet like i stated... mathmatically they could't discern out the first few nano seconds..... i ought to arise with some theories yet they could be guesses. good success.

2016-11-23 13:53:26 · answer #4 · answered by ballow 4 · 0 0

According to this theory
the energy present, about 15 billion years ago, in a moment changed to matter All the matter condensed to form a ball
This ball than exploded, giving name big bang, scattering all the matter in different directions This matter came up in the form of galaxies. Now these galaxies are rushing away from each other

2007-01-13 00:09:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ms3d is the most accurate one. If I may reiterate, The Big Bang was not an explosion.

2007-01-12 02:27:02 · answer #6 · answered by Tim C 4 · 0 0

who doesn't know what the big bang theory is???

2007-01-12 03:32:00 · answer #7 · answered by stopnow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 · 0 0

in short... basically..it means something exploded and what ever that was left from it, created the stars, galaxy, planets etc...

2007-01-12 01:40:27 · answer #8 · answered by Dara 2 · 0 0

all matter is going away from each other

the farther it goes,the faster it goes

2007-01-12 01:43:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

this might help
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=big+bang+theory&Submit2=Go

2007-01-12 05:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by sushobhan 6 · 0 0

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