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science2 years ago•5 min saved

"The Big Bang: Unveiling the Universe's Enigmatic Origins"

Here are five fascinating facts about the Big Bang theory: 1) It was first proposed by a Catholic priest named Georges Lemaître who took Einstein's and Hubble's results at face value. 2) The theory was accidentally verified by the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation. 3) The Big Bang is a theory of the history of the universe, not a theory of creation. 4) The cosmic microwave background serves as a window into our distant past. 5) The Big Bang happened everywhere in the universe simultaneously, not in a specific location in space.

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astronomy2 years ago•4 min saved

The Birth of the Universe: A Quantum Egg

Belgian priest and cosmologist Georges Lemaître conjectured in 1931 that the beginning of the Universe could be modeled as the decay of a single quantum of matter, which gave birth to everything else. Lemaître suggests that the initial state of the Universe was without space or time, and the initial quantum was like a "unique atom" that spontaneously started to decay into smaller atoms or quantum fragments. The Big Bang model of cosmology emerged from the pioneering work of George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Herman in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which suggests that the young Universe was denser and hotter, and matter was broken down to its smallest constituents early on.

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