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Mar. 17th, 2006 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheEvidence for Universe Expansion Found
Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second.
The discovery — which involves an analysis of variations in the brightness of microwave radiation — is the first direct evidence to support the two-decade-old theory that the universe went through what is called inflation.
It also helps explain how matter eventually clumped together into planets, stars and galaxies in a universe that began as a remarkably smooth, superhot soup.
Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second.
The discovery — which involves an analysis of variations in the brightness of microwave radiation — is the first direct evidence to support the two-decade-old theory that the universe went through what is called inflation.
It also helps explain how matter eventually clumped together into planets, stars and galaxies in a universe that began as a remarkably smooth, superhot soup.
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Date: 2006-03-17 05:09 pm (UTC)once again, you absolutely can have it both ways. unles you're rabidly anti-intellectual or anti christian conservative.
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Date: 2006-03-17 05:19 pm (UTC)I will have to look at this more later.
I am coming off of a binge.. Not at my bet at the moment..
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Date: 2006-03-17 05:33 pm (UTC)No, no, no, a thousand times NO!
"Researchers found the evidence for inflation by looking at a faint glow that permeates the universe. That glow, known as the cosmic microwave background, was produced when the universe was about 300,000 years old"
Any radiation from 15 billion years ago would be long gone now. What they're looking at is radiation from extremely distant stars and galaxies that has red-shifted (due to the change in time over time) down into the microwave.
Dumpkoffs!
How ignorant scientists can be never fails to amaze me.