A Look at the Big Bang Theory Analytical Essay by Research Group
A Look at the Big Bang Theory
A study of the sources that support and question the Big Bang Theory of the beginning of the universe.
# 25743
| 1,439 words
| 4 sources
| MLA
| 2002
| 
Published
on May 02, 2003
in
Geology and Geophysics
(Planetology)
, Astronomy
(Cosmology)
, Astronomy
(The Solar System)
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Description:
The writer gives a background of the Big Bang Theory and explores the theory as an explanation of the beginning of the universe. However, since the 1940s and the introduction of this theory, scientists have raised questions as to the validity of the explanation and continue to research other ways in which the universe might have been created. The paper traces some of this research.
From the Paper:
"One such area of research has been the model for the expansion of the universe and so for the Big Bang. One theory offered to explain this is the inflationary model, and over the last two decades what has happened to this model shows some of the ways scientific truth is pursued and fine-tuned. Alan Guth developed the idea in 1979 and wrote it in his notebook. Inflation was the name for the mechanism Guth proposed for igniting cosmic expansion and which might have operated for as little as 10-35 seconds. Still, it would have whipped up all the matter and energy in the universe and laid the seeds for galaxies and galaxy clusters in that brief time, and in that time the universe would have blossomed exponentially from as small as 10-24 centimeters across to perhaps the size of a pumpkin. Michael Turner of the University of Chicago describes inflation as "the most important idea in cosmology since that of the big bang itself.""Cite this Analytical Essay:
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