What is it?
What do you call the biggest explosion that created our universe?
What is the Big Bang.
The first 10-43 seconds of our universe. During this era, it was tiny, hot, gaseous, and pact with very high energy particles.
What is the Planck Era?
What is the visual result caused by the escaping of photons during the early stages of our universe as it began to cool down?
What is Cosmic Background Radiation
Who is the person who created the general theory of relativity and other theories about fundamental particles? This math was used to support the Big Bang Thoery.
Who is Albert Einstein?
What are some of the biggest questions astronomers ask today about the expansion of our universe?
Will our universe stop expanding one day? Will our universe begin to turn around? Will our universe collapse?
How many points did the universe begin from?
What is only a single point? (trick question)
The first 10-38 to 10-35 seconds of our universe. During this time the observable universe expanded to about 1035 times its previous size, which was about the size of a single electron.
What is the Inflation period?
What is something we can use as evidence for the Big Bang? This evidence has been occurring since the Big Bang occured but is progressively decreasing in speed as time goes by.
What is the universe's expansion?
Who said that the universe started from a single point and that it could expand forever?
Who is Georges Lemaitre?
What is an unanswered question about the inflation of the universe?
What powered it?
What did the universe look like in the beginning?
The universe was incredibly small compared to now and it was very hot and dense.
This era lasted for 10-38 to 10-10 seconds. During this era, the only particles that existed were Higgs, W, and Z bosons. These particles could collide with each other.
What is the Electroweak Era?
Which probe was used to measure the size of our universe and study the properties of our universe?
What is the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)?
Who noticed that the galaxies around us were moving away from us and that the galaxies further away from us were moving faster than others? (Hint: A famous telescope was named after him)
Who is Edwin Hubble?
How come we can not observe certain things from earlier events of our universe?
How many years ago did the Big Bang occur?
What is about 13.8 billion years ago?
Occurred during the 10-3 to 3 minutes of the existence of our universe. Although the universe had cooled down a little by this point it was still hot and dense enough to begin fusing hydrogen. A smaller amount of heavier elements also came into existence during this era.
What is the Nucleosynthesis Era?
What ground-based observatory was specifically used to map the cosmic background radiation from the Big Bang and has more accurate up to date info?
What is ESO's Planck observatory? (European Southern Observatory)
Who proposed the idea of inflation during 1979?
Who is Alan Guth?
What type of matter increases the speed of our universe's expansion when our universe should be decreasing in speed because of the increase of regular matter? There are many things we do not understand about this particular matter.
Dark Matter
How big is our universe currently?
No one knows! Our universe could be infinitely large! This also might not be the only universe that exists!
This occurred 20 mins to 380,000 years of our universe's existence. During the first 3 to 70,000 years of this era, the universe continued to cool and more matter was created. Once the universe hit 310,000 years old electrons began to get captured by ions forming atoms. Light begins to travel across the universe making it transparent.
What is the Nuclei Era?
What telescope, that is very famous, is also used to continue measuring the expansion of the universe?
What is the Hubble Telescope?