Cosmology Basics
This stands for ΛCDM.
What is Lambda Cold Dark Matter?
This is the connection between stars and humans.
What is star dust?
This is the estimated percentage of dark energy in the universe.
What is 68%?
According to current scientific understanding, this is the fate of our universe.
What is it will expand forever?
This theory is the most widely accepted that describes the formation and evolution of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This astronomer provided evidence for the expanding universe.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
These two elements make up 98% of most celestial bodies.
What is Hydrogen and Helium?
This is how much of the universe's matter is made up of dark matter compared to ordinary matter.
What is 5 times more?
This is how old the universe is according to current scientific understanding.
What is approximately 13.8 billion years old?
This is where I got my Physics degree
What is UC Irvine?
This is the significance of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation.
What is the afterglow of the Big Bang?
This method is used to determine the age of the universe.
What is measuring the rate of expansion of the universe?
This is the primary evidence for the existence of dark energy
What is the expansion of the universe accelerating?
According to the Big Crunch theory, this is the fate of the universe.
What is it will collapse back into a singularity?
This is Murphys law
What is "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"?
This element is the most abundant in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
This term in astronomy means the change in wavelength of light towards the red end of the spectrum.
What is redshift?
This is the role of dark matter in the formation and stability of galaxies.
What is influencing galaxy rotation curves and the behavior of galaxy clusters?
This hypothetical form of energy is thought to cause the accelerated expansion of the universe.
What is dark energy?
This is where I just graduated from.
This is the primary force driving the expansion of the universe.
What is dark energy?
This is the role of spectroscopy in astronomy.
What is analyzing the composition of celestial objects?
This phenomenon occurs when light from an object shifts to shorter wavelengths as it moves away from us.
What is redshift?
This theory states cosmic energy came together and began to “boil”.
What is the Multiverse Theory?
This is a philosophical question we covered in class.
What is the Ship of Thesus?