UNIVERSE ASTRONOMY LOGIN GUIDE SPACE CARNIVAL PHOTOS FORUM CONTACT PRIVACY THE BIG BANG THEORY HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE SINGULARITY EVER BIG BANG EVOLUTION OUR UNIVERSE ARTICLE 18 DEC MATT WILLIAMS INFINITE PLACE AGES THE QUESTIONS PHILOSOPHERS SCHOLARS THE BEGINNING PRETTY WILD INTERESTING CONSENSUS ASTRONOMERS COSMOLOGISTS THE UNIVERSE AS WE KNOW IT MASSIVE EXPLOSION THE MAJORITY PHYSICAL LAWS GOVERN ALMOST TERM SHOULD SEEING HOW IT ACCEPTED THEORY OF PROOF THEORY PROJECTIONS THE BASICS THE BIG BANG HYPOTHESIS THE CURRENT PAST MATTER INTO EXISTENCE SAME TIME BILLION YEARS AT THIS TIME VERY SMALL BALL INFINITE DENSITY INTENSE HEAT THE SINGULARITY THIS IS NOT THE ONLY MODERN STEADY STATE THEORY OSCILLATING UNIVERSE THE MODEL EXPLAIN ORIGIN THE LAWS THE LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE BROAD RANGE TIMELINE OF THE BIG BANG BACKWARDS STATE SCIENTISTS MUST POINT INITIAL COOLED THE FORMATION OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLES SIMPLE GIANT CLOUDS PRIMORDIAL ELEMENTS GRAVITY STARS THUS THE AGE TESTING THEORETICAL EXPERIMENTS PARTICLE ACCELERATORS THE DEEP TIMELINE OF EVENTS COSMIC EVOLUTION TIMES SECONDS SUBJECT SPECULATION PHYSICS EXISTED FATHOM CREATE ENERGIES INVOLVED CONDUCTED THEORIES PREVAIL INSTANT EPOCH ALSO KNOWN AS PLANCK EPOCH PLANCK ERA THIS WAS PERIOD EXTREME BELIEVED QUANTUM EFFECTS PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS NO OTHER PHYSICAL EQUAL STRENGTH PLANCK PERIOD OF TIME MEASURED PLANCK TIME TO THE EXTREME THE STATE EXPAND LEADING THE MANIFESTATION FUNDAMENTAL FORCES CROSS HERE EACH OTHER THE FIRST STEP THE FORCE GRAVITATION GAUGE ACCOUNT STRONG WEAK NUCLEAR FORCES ELECTROMAGNETISM TEMPERATURE ENOUGH ABLE FORMING DISTINCT INFLATION THE CREATION FIRST FUNDAMENTAL UNKNOWN COSMOLOGICAL MODELS HIGH TEMPERATURES PRESSURE GAVE RISE RAPID EXPANSION THE HISTORY OF PHASE TRANSITION CAUSED THE SEPARATION AT THIS POINT IN TIME BARYOGENESIS EVENT SO HIGH RANDOM PARTICLES PAIRS ALL KINDS PREDOMINANCE ANTIMATTER THE PRESENT ELEMENTARY PARTICLES COOL COOLING DECREASE THE ENERGY PARTICLE PHASE TRANSITIONS CHANGED PRESENT VALUES PARTICLE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS ONWARD SUBJECT TO LESS BELIEVE QUARKS GLUONS BARYONS PROTONS ANTIQUARKS HIGH ENOUGH ANNIHILATION IMMEDIATELY LEAVING JUST ONE THE ORIGINAL NEUTRONS NONE ANTIPARTICLES SIMILAR PROCESS ELECTRONS LONGER MOVING DENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE PHOTONS MINUTES BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS THANKS TO DROPPING BILLION KELVIN DENSITIES THE EQUIVALENT COMBINE DEUTERIUM STABLE ISOTOPE HELIUM HYDROGEN ATOMS RADIATION COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TODAY LIGHT ENERGY DENSITY SEEN ALL DIRECTIONS DISTANCE LIGHT YEARS ESTIMATES THE CENTER STRUCTURE THE COURSE DENSER REGIONS GRAVITATIONALLY TO EACH THEREFORE FORMING GAS THE OTHER STRUCTURES OBSERVE THE STRUCTURE THIS TIME THE MODERN VISIBLE RANGING STARS AND PLANETS GALAXY CLUSTERS SUPER CONCENTRATED THE DETAILS DEPEND AMOUNT TYPE COLD DARK MATTER WARM DARK MATTER HOT DARK MATTER BARYONIC MATTER DARK MATTER MODEL THE DARK THE SPEED OF LIGHT THE STANDARD MODEL BIG BANG COSMOLOGY AS IT FITS AVAILABLE MAKE UP LAMBDA COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT ALBERT EINSTEIN ATTEMPTED SHOW THE BALANCE DARK ACCELERATE KEEP DIAGRAM SHOWING PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE STARTING POINT NATURALLY QUESTIONS POSSIBLE TINY MEAN CONTINUE ONE DAY RUN OUT EXPANSIVE BEGIN CRUNCHES QUESTION MAJOR FOCUS THE DEBATE ACCEPTANCE PRIOR OBSERVATION DARK ENERGY SCENARIOS REACH MAXIMUM SIZE COLLAPSE ITSELF THE MASS GREATER THAN CRITICAL DENSITY IN OTHER WORDS REMAINS ABOVE CERTAIN VALUE EVENTUALLY EQUAL TO BELOW SLOW DOWN NEVER STOP GO ON STAR FORMATION CEASED THE CONSUMPTION INTERSTELLAR GAS EXISTING BURN OUT WHITE NEUTRON BLACK COLLISIONS BLACK HOLES AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF APPROACH ABSOLUTE ZERO THE LAST HAWKING RADIATION ENTROPY INCREASE TO THE POINT ORGANIZED FORM OF ENERGY EXTRACTED THE EXISTENCE INFLUENCE COSMIC EXPANSION THE CONCLUSION VISIBLE UNIVERSE PASS BEYOND EVENT HORIZON THE EDGE WE CAN INVISIBLE SCENARIO PHANTOM ENERGY TORN APART UNDOING HISTORY OF THE BIG BANG THEORY OBSERVATIONS THE EARLY AMERICAN ASTRONOMER VESTO SLIPHER SPIRAL GALAXIES DOPPLER ALMOST ALL MOVING AWAY RUSSIAN COSMOLOGIST ALEXANDER FRIEDMANN DEVELOPED FRIEDMANN EQUATIONS DERIVED EQUATIONS GENERAL RELATIVITY CONTRARY ADVOCATING WORK EDWIN HUBBLE MEASUREMENT THE GREAT SPIRAL NEBULA SYSTEMS INDEED HUBBLE HOOKER TELESCOPE MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY DISCOVERED CORRELATION RECESSION VELOCITY GEORGES LEMAITRE BELGIAN PHYSICIST ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST RESULTS INFERRED RECESSION GALAXIES FATHER BACK IN TIME SMALLER ENTIRE FABRIC SPACE AND TIME DISCOVERIES TRIGGERED DEBATE PHYSICISTS 1920S UNIFORMITY OVER TIME THE IDEA THEOLOGICAL BIAS LEMAITRE RELIGIOUS MILNE MODEL THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY HIMSELF WORLD WAR STEADY STATE MODEL FRED HOYLE POPULARITY IRONICALLY PHRASE BBC RADIO BROADCAST PEJORATIVE DISMISSAL OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE THE DISCOVERY CONFIRMATION THE BEST CASE PROBLEMS PAPERS SUBMITTED STEPHEN HAWKING INEVITABLE INITIAL CONDITION BIG BANG MODEL ALAN GUTH 1990S SAW ATTEMPT RESOLVE ADDITION EXPLANATION MISSING MASS JAN OORT