Hiw To Build A Universe Flashcards
Non-dimensional dot big bang theory called
Singularity
Milky Way is almost _ light years across
100,000
Thought to be between _ stars in Milky Way (range)
100-400 billion
Universe is thought to be _ years old
13.7 billion
Term Big Bang proposed in
1920
Who proposed Big Bang theory
Georges Lemaître
George Lemaître was a _
Belgian priest scholar
Big Bang didn’t become a notion in cosmology until
Mid-1960s
Big bang became a notion in cosmology after
2 you g radio astronomers made a discovery
First radio astronomer name A
Arno Penzias
Second radio astronomer’s name R
Robert Wilson
In 1965 while using large communications antenna, AP and RW were troubled by
Background noise
Background noise was a _ that made any experimental work impossible
Steady, steamy hiss
Where was the large communications antenna
Bell Laboratories at Holmdel New Jersey
50km away from AP RW, _ was working on finding what AP RW found
Princeton University team of scientists led by Robert Dicke