Georges Lemaitre: The Big Bang Theory
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The Big Bang Theory
How did the Universe come to be? There are many theories on how the universe began, but the most common and scientific is the Big Bang theory. Georges Lemaitre is said to be the first person to formulate the Big Bang theory in 1927. Lemaitre gathered information and ideas from scientists Albert Einstein, and Alexander Friedman to create …show more content…
Redshift is when the observed wavelength of a galaxy moving away from us, is moving towards red on a wavelength spectrum and the farther the galaxy, the greater the redshift. In short, red shift shows that a galaxy moves faster as it gets farther from us, and “Since we cannot assume that we have a special place in the Universe, this is evidence for a generally expanding Universe.” (The Big Bang 1). This suggests that everything is moving away from everything else, and expanding. Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation (CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation that was present after the Big Bang. According to the Big Bang theory, Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation is in all “observable space”, (or technically everywhere), and most radiation energy in the universe is in the background of the cosmic microwave. The Big Bang theory suggests that the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is left over from The Big Bang, and Jerry Coffey claims that: “Once you consider it, it only makes sense that there would be a background radiation that is directly related to the expansion of the Universe”, and “is a landmark proof of the Big Bang Theory” (Coffey 1). Soon after Lemaitre created the Big Bang theory, he published a paper introducing it. Mark Egdall claims that “Two years later, Edwin Hubble— who, like most scientists, had not read Lemaître’s paper — came up with the same redshift/distance relationship using nearly the same data” (Egdall 1). This proves as evidence because it demonstrates that two people were able to find the same solution as to how the universe was created, without communicating to each
The Big Bang Theory
How did the Universe come to be? There are many theories on how the universe began, but the most common and scientific is the Big Bang theory. Georges Lemaitre is said to be the first person to formulate the Big Bang theory in 1927. Lemaitre gathered information and ideas from scientists Albert Einstein, and Alexander Friedman to create …show more content…
Redshift is when the observed wavelength of a galaxy moving away from us, is moving towards red on a wavelength spectrum and the farther the galaxy, the greater the redshift. In short, red shift shows that a galaxy moves faster as it gets farther from us, and “Since we cannot assume that we have a special place in the Universe, this is evidence for a generally expanding Universe.” (The Big Bang 1). This suggests that everything is moving away from everything else, and expanding. Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation (CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation that was present after the Big Bang. According to the Big Bang theory, Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation is in all “observable space”, (or technically everywhere), and most radiation energy in the universe is in the background of the cosmic microwave. The Big Bang theory suggests that the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is left over from The Big Bang, and Jerry Coffey claims that: “Once you consider it, it only makes sense that there would be a background radiation that is directly related to the expansion of the Universe”, and “is a landmark proof of the Big Bang Theory” (Coffey 1). Soon after Lemaitre created the Big Bang theory, he published a paper introducing it. Mark Egdall claims that “Two years later, Edwin Hubble— who, like most scientists, had not read Lemaître’s paper — came up with the same redshift/distance relationship using nearly the same data” (Egdall 1). This proves as evidence because it demonstrates that two people were able to find the same solution as to how the universe was created, without communicating to each