Background Radiation
The after glow (photons) of the Big Bang.
What is cosmic background radiation?
Mapped the primordial hot and cold spots of background radiation
What is cosmic background explorer (COBE)?
The theory dark energy contradicts _____
What is classical physics?
The description of which the universe is expanding
What is Hubble's Law?
Noise that is evenly spread across space.
What is static?
Surveyed the entire sky and measured temperature differences of the microwave radiation
What is Wilkinson Microware Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)?
The ability dark energy has on galaxies.
What is pushing galaxies away from each other?
Hubble's observation of the majority of galaxies.
What is moving away from us and each other?
Law that supports that background radiation exists
What is Law of Conservation of Energy?
The scientific conclusion after the WMAP missions (geometry of space satisfies the rules of Euclidean geometry)
What is a "flat" universe?
Dark matter is neither _____ or _____
What is ordinary matter or energy?
Luminous galaxy cores that help measure the rate of the expansion of the universe.
What are quasars?
The revelation of Planck's image.
What are age, expansion, and history?
Possible explanations for dark energy.
What is dynamical fluid, property of the vacuum of empty space or modification of general relativity?
The light emitted by a star that changes as it moves away from the observer (helps with determining Hubble's constant)
What is red shift?
Planck's satellite measurement for the early universe by observing the cosmic background radiation.
What is the Hubble Constant?
The percentage of dark energy.
What is 68% of the universe?
Formula: Hubble's constant x distance
What is velocity?