Wilson and Penzias were listening through the Horn Antenna in New Jersey when they picked up a static-like sound. They went through and removed all the possible sources of interference, including some pigeons from in the antenna. After removing all sources of interference they still heard the static sound which lead them to predict it was the echo of the birth of the universe.
When I was looking for the answer to your question I looked at a couple of sources. Unfortunately, some of the information provided either conflicted with each other or deferred to the default answer “no one knows”. According to the course textbook, and this is a brief and simplified version of what it states, initially, the universe was in a high-energy “false” vacuum state. The universe then transitioned to a lower-energy true vacuum state that triggered a tremendous expansion of the universe. This is of course just a hypothesis
Sorry, I was in the middle of typing this when you posted your response Nicholas. The answer that I came across was the conservation of angular momentum. I'm still not 100% because nowhere have I found stated directly that it was the initial momentum of the big bang. Although it does make sense to me.
Reply from Nicholas Sanchez In 1931, while attending a meeting of the British Association, Lemaitre voiced his proposal that the universe had expanded from an initial point. He called the point the primeval atom or the Cosmic Egg, which exploded upon its’ creation. His idea was developed after he discovered a family of solutions to Einstein's field equations of relativity that described a universe that was not static, back in 1927. The term “Big Bang” came much later and it is was initially a term of derision used by English astronomer Fred Hoyle.
Science has not been able to make a prediction as to what existed before the Planck Era. The reason science has not been able to make a prediction is because a universally accepted method on how to combine quantum mechanics with relativistic gravity does not exist.
How did they discover CMB's?
ReplyDeleteWilson and Penzias were listening through the Horn Antenna in New Jersey when they picked up a static-like sound. They went through and removed all the possible sources of interference, including some pigeons from in the antenna. After removing all sources of interference they still heard the static sound which lead them to predict it was the echo of the birth of the universe.
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ReplyDeleteWeinberg and Salaam's Standard Model theory unified weak and electromagnetic under electroweak theory which was also used for GUT theory.
DeleteWhere did the initial momentum come from that caused the universe to expand?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was looking for the answer to your question I looked at a couple of sources. Unfortunately, some of the information provided either conflicted with each other or deferred to the default answer “no one knows”. According to the course textbook, and this is a brief and simplified version of what it states, initially, the universe was in a high-energy “false” vacuum state. The universe then transitioned to a lower-energy true vacuum state that triggered a tremendous expansion of the universe. This is of course just a hypothesis
DeleteThe initial momentum that caused the universe to expand was the conservation of angular momentum.
DeleteSorry, I was in the middle of typing this when you posted your response Nicholas. The answer that I came across was the conservation of angular momentum. I'm still not 100% because nowhere have I found stated directly that it was the initial momentum of the big bang. Although it does make sense to me.
DeleteWhat did Georges Lemaître find that led to the big bang theory?
ReplyDeleteReply from Nicholas Sanchez In 1931, while attending a meeting of the British Association, Lemaitre voiced his proposal that the universe had expanded from an initial point. He called the point the primeval atom or the Cosmic Egg, which exploded upon its’ creation. His idea was developed after he discovered a family of solutions to Einstein's field equations of relativity that described a universe that was not static, back in 1927. The term “Big Bang” came much later and it is was initially a term of derision used by English astronomer Fred Hoyle.
Deletewhat went on before the plank era, and during this era, that led to the big bang?
ReplyDeleteScience has not been able to make a prediction as to what existed before the Planck Era. The reason science has not been able to make a prediction is because a universally accepted method on how to combine quantum mechanics with relativistic gravity does not exist.
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ReplyDeleteWhat would be the best tool/technology that scientists could use to uncover the mysteries of the Big Bang?
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ReplyDeleteWhat methods could scientists use to better predict what happened during the first few seconds of the Big Bang?
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ReplyDeleteWhat evidence was it that convinced the Catholic Church to believe the big bang was real?
ReplyDeleteWhat evidence was it that convinced the Catholic Church to believe the big bang was real?
ReplyDeleteDo astronomers have any idea about what set off the Big Bang?
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