Hiw To Build A Universe Flashcards

1
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Non-dimensional dot big bang theory called

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Singularity

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2
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Milky Way is almost _ light years across

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100,000

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3
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Thought to be between _ stars in Milky Way (range)

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100-400 billion

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4
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Universe is thought to be _ years old

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13.7 billion

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5
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Term Big Bang proposed in

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1920

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6
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Who proposed Big Bang theory

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Georges Lemaître

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7
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George Lemaître was a _

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Belgian priest scholar

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8
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Big Bang didn’t become a notion in cosmology until

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Mid-1960s

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9
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Big bang became a notion in cosmology after

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2 you g radio astronomers made a discovery

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10
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First radio astronomer name A

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Arno Penzias

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Second radio astronomer’s name R

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Robert Wilson

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12
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In 1965 while using large communications antenna, AP and RW were troubled by

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Background noise

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13
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Background noise was a _ that made any experimental work impossible

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Steady, steamy hiss

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14
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Where was the large communications antenna

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Bell Laboratories at Holmdel New Jersey

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15
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50km away from AP RW, _ was working on finding what AP RW found

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Princeton University team of scientists led by Robert Dicke

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16
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Princeton scientists pursuing idea suggested in 40s by

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Russian-born astrophysicist George Gamow

17
Q

Gamow said if you look deep enough into space, you should find

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Cosmic background radiation left from Big Bang

18
Q

Radiation from big bang would reach earth in the form of

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Microwaves

19
Q

Penzias and Wilson were hearing

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Microwaves from big bang

20
Q

Penzias and Wilson had found

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Visible part of the edge of the universe

21
Q

The edge of universe that Penzias and Wilson found was _ miles away

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90 billion trillion

22
Q

RW and Penzias were seeing first photons converted into

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Microwaves