The cosmic microwave background radiation provides strong evidence that...?

Question

A. Star formation has been taking place for billions of years.
B. The Universe evolved from a hot, dense state.
C. Colliding galaxies release enormous amounts of radiation.
D. A 3 Kelvin, the early universe was extremely cool.
E. The early universe had more stars.

Answer 1

B.

Answer 2

Of the choices that you have, only B makes sense. If you start with a very hot universe (the Primeval Atom hypothesis formulated by a Christian priest -- the hypothesis later became the Big Bang theory), and you now have a much colder universe (average 3 degrees K), then at some point between the two, the temperature of the universe must have cooled down to 3000 degrees (or so).

At that temperature, protons can capture electrons (the electrons go into orbit around the protons) and form neutral atoms of hydrogen. Before that, they could not because hot atoms lose their electrons.

Free electrons scatter light. Neutral atoms do not. At that moment (3000 K) the universe became transparent.

Free electrons lose a lot of energy when they are captured. This energy goes out as light. It is that light that we are seeing today.

Because of the expansion of the universe since this event occured, the wavelength of the light has been shifted to microwave frequencies (hence the name).

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Before the discovery (and explanation) of this background radiation, the proponents of theories were split into two camps: Primeval Atom supporters (called "Big Bangers" by their opponents) and the supporter of the Steady State theory, very popular among atheists because an eternal universe does not need a creator.

There are still pagans out there who do not accept that the universe did evolve from a hot, dense state.

Answer 3

B.
The COBE satellite was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe to the limits set by our astrophysical environment. It was launched November 18, 1989 and carried three instruments, a Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) to search for the cosmic infrared background radiation, a Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) to map the cosmic radiation sensitively, and a Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) to compare the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation with a precise blackbody. Each COBE instrument yielded a major cosmological discovery:

DIRBE - Infrared absolute sky brightness maps in the wavelength range 1.25 to 240 microns were obtained to carry out a search for the cosmic infrared background (CIB). The CIB was originally detected in the two longest DIRBE wavelength bands, 140 and 240 microns, and in the short-wavelength end of the FIRAS spectrum. Subsequent analyses have yielded detections of the CIB in the near-infrared DIRBE sky maps. The CIB represents a "core sample" of the Universe; it contains the cumulative emissions of stars and galaxies dating back to the epoch when these objects first began to form. The COBE CIB measurements constrain models of the cosmological history of star formation and the buildup over time of dust and elements heavier than hydrogen, including those of which living organisms are composed. Dust has played an important role in star formation throughout much of cosmic history.

DMR - The CMB was found to have intrinsic "anisotropy" for the first time, at a level of a part in 100,000. These tiny variations in the intensity of the CMB over the sky show how matter and energy was distributed when the Universe was still very young. Later, through a process still poorly understood, the early structures seen by DMR developed into galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the large scale structure that we see in the Universe today.

FIRAS - The cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectrum is that of a nearly perfect blackbody with a temperature of 2.725 +/- 0.002 K. This observation matches the predictions of the hot Big Bang theory extraordinarily well, and indicates that nearly all of the radiant energy of the Universe was released within the first year after the Big Bang.

Answer 4

B as the big bang stripped atoms of their electrons leaving radioactive compunds still around today.

Answer 5

it's a lie. that's what it proves.

http://www.creationmuseum.org

Answer 6

B.