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Penzias And Wilson Flashcards

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Penzias and Wilson received the _ in Physics

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1978 Nobel peace prize

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1 percent of static on television is

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Big bang remnant

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Big bang wasn’t an _ in the conventional sense

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Explosion

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Big bang wasn’t an explosion, it was an _

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Expansion

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Singularity could have been

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Relic of earlier collapsed universe

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One theory, there could be many expansions and collapsing

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Universes

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Singularity could have been a “false

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Vacuum”

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Other word for “false vacuum” _ field

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Scalar field

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Other word for “false vacuum” _ energy

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Vacuum energy

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10
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False vacuum _ to nothing

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Shrunk

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Big bang theory isn’t about the Big Bang itself but,

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What happened after the Big Bang

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_ researches what happened right after creation (big bang)

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Particle accelerators

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Most of what we know about early moments of universe is from idea called

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Inflation theory

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Inflation theory first propounded in

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1979

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Who propounded inflation theory

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Alan Guth

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Inflation theory says universe doubled in size every

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10-34 seconds

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Inflation theory explains _ that makes our universe possible (2)

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Ripples

Eddies

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Without inflation theory there would be no _ in our universe just drifting gas and everlasting darkness

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Clumps of matter or stars

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Scientific notations example

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Ten to the sixth power

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At one ten millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second according to guth, _ emerged

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Gravity

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Next came _

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Electromagnetism

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Along with electromagnetism came

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Strong and weak nuclear forces

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After electromagnetism and forces came

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Shoals of elementary particles

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In single crackling instant, universe was at least _ across (or any size up to infinite)

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Hundred billion light years

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