Penzias And Wilson Flashcards
Penzias and Wilson received the _ in Physics
1978 Nobel peace prize
1 percent of static on television is
Big bang remnant
Big bang wasn’t an _ in the conventional sense
Explosion
Big bang wasn’t an explosion, it was an _
Expansion
Singularity could have been
Relic of earlier collapsed universe
One theory, there could be many expansions and collapsing
Universes
Singularity could have been a “false
Vacuum”
Other word for “false vacuum” _ field
Scalar field
Other word for “false vacuum” _ energy
Vacuum energy
False vacuum _ to nothing
Shrunk
Big bang theory isn’t about the Big Bang itself but,
What happened after the Big Bang
_ researches what happened right after creation (big bang)
Particle accelerators
Most of what we know about early moments of universe is from idea called
Inflation theory
Inflation theory first propounded in
1979
Who propounded inflation theory
Alan Guth
Inflation theory says universe doubled in size every
10-34 seconds
Inflation theory explains _ that makes our universe possible (2)
Ripples
Eddies
Without inflation theory there would be no _ in our universe just drifting gas and everlasting darkness
Clumps of matter or stars
Scientific notations example
Ten to the sixth power
At one ten millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second according to guth, _ emerged
Gravity
Next came _
Electromagnetism
Along with electromagnetism came
Strong and weak nuclear forces
After electromagnetism and forces came
Shoals of elementary particles
In single crackling instant, universe was at least _ across (or any size up to infinite)
Hundred billion light years
