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History of The Big Bang Theory

Georges Lemaitre first proposed the theory of an expanding universe and a primordial atom in 1927. Edwin Hubble later showed in 1929, using the telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California, that distant galaxies appeared to be receding from Earth at speeds proportional to their distances, providing evidence the universe was expanding. This helped establish the Big Bang theory, which is further supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964 and observations that galaxies are redshifted and the abundance of hydrogen and helium in the universe.

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History of The Big Bang Theory

Georges Lemaitre first proposed the theory of an expanding universe and a primordial atom in 1927. Edwin Hubble later showed in 1929, using the telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California, that distant galaxies appeared to be receding from Earth at speeds proportional to their distances, providing evidence the universe was expanding. This helped establish the Big Bang theory, which is further supported by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964 and observations that galaxies are redshifted and the abundance of hydrogen and helium in the universe.

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HISTORY OF THE BIG BANG THEORY

GEORGES LEMAITRE (1927)


(Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre)

- Belgian astronomer, cosmologist and Catholic


priest
- Proposed the Hypothesis of the Primeval
Atom or “cosmic egg hypothesis”
- Published in Belgium a virtually unnoticed
paper that provided a compelling solution to
the equations of General Relativity for the
case of expanding universe

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EDWIN HUBBLE (1929)
- using the telescope at Mt. Wilson in California,
had shown that the distant galaxies all appeared
to be receding from us at speeds proportional
to their distances

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EDWIN HUBBLE (1929)
- using the world’s largest telescope at Mt.
Wilson in California, had shown that the distant
galaxies all appeared to be receding from us at
speeds proportional to their distances

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Spectrograph- breaks the light from a single material
into its component colors the way a prism splits white
light into a rainbow
- It records this spectrum, which allows scientists to
analyze the light and discover properties of the
6 material interacting with it
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EDWIN HUBBLE (1929)

- using the telescope at Mt. Wilson in California,


had shown that the distant galaxies all appeared
to be receding from us at speeds proportional
to their distances
- observed that the galaxies are redshifting

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PIECES OF EVIDENCE OF THE
BIG BANG

1. Redshifting of the Galaxies – galaxies are moving away from each


other
2. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

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PIECES OF EVIDENCE OF THE
BIG BANG

2. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation


-remnant radiation from the Big Bang
-accidentally discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert
Wilson in Bell Laboratories in New Jersey (1964)

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PIECES OF EVIDENCE OF THE
BIG BANG

1. Redshifting of the Galaxies – galaxies are moving away from each


other
2. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
3. Abundance of Hydrogen and Helium

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