Essays Tagged: "Cosmic microwave background radiation"
The Beginning of Time - The Big Bang
ooled to allow formations of helium and other light elements.(Weinberg, 1977)As it is proven by the cosmic background radiation, the universe wasuniformly smooth. A change had to have occurred, otherw ... l size, has very little of a gravitational pull.(Weinberg, 1977)The only respectable theory is the 'cosmic string theory' is states that ourfour dimensional space (three spatial dimensions plus time) ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
Short Summary Essay on the Big Bang
earth at speeds proportional to their distance.The big bang theory also predicted the existence of cosmic background radiation (the radiation left over from the explosion itself). This radiation was ... 964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, providing further evidence that the Big Bang took place. The cosmic microwave background has the biggest cosmological red-shift known. It is due to the interstel ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
The Begining and Ending of The Universe.
rt Wilson were experimenting to improve the telephone system, when they accidentally discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation. This radiation is the remains of the Big Bang. Finding this c ... , but we only see a finite part of the universe.While the Big Bang theory successfully explains the cosmic microwave background radiation and the expanding universe, it leaves open a number of importa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
The Big Bang Theory
rom a hot, dense state.In 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson from Bell Laboratories discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and found the intensity in different directions to vary by less th ... gitimacy of the big bang theory.December 22, 2000, a measurement was made of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation. What's significant about this is that this was the first time ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
The Origin of Our Universe
ng is the existence of an isotropic radiation bath that permeates the entire Universe known as the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB). The cosmic microwave background is the afterglow radiation left ... osmic microwave background is the afterglow radiation left over from the Big Bang. By observing the cosmic microwave background, cosmologists can study the physical conditions only a few hundred thous ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
The Big Bang
tween all the stars and planets that is expanding. The evidence for the expansion is the red shift, cosmic background radiation and the way that helium and hydrogen are scattered in the universe.Dista ... here is a heat radiation that does not vary very much from one direction to another. This is called cosmic background radiation and is suppose to originate from the Big Bang.Helium and hydrogen can no ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
Big Bang
According to the Big Bang the universe was created about 10-20 billion years ago from a tremendous cosmic explosion that send matter and energy in all directions. At the point of the explosion all th ... tant galaxies are travelling away from us at great speed.Also, the theory predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation and the theory received strong confirmation when this radiation discover ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy