Gravitational Wave Discovery! Evidence of Cosmic Inflation
Baby photos of our universe show huge early growth spurt! Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe Regression to the Mean: http://bit.ly/1lgZQAQ Some clarifications: - The lengthening of...
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Can you spot the problem with this image? This is the baby photo of our universe. Itshows the whole universe as it was when it was just 380,000 years old.Ok, so that doesn’t sound very young for a baby photo, but if you consider the universetoday to be an 80 year old person, than that image is the equivalent of a baby pic takenat 19 hours after birth. So it truly is a baby photo.But why can’t we get a photo from an earlier time than that? Well, the problem is the universebefore 380,000 thousand years after the big bang was so hot that all the matter in it,all these protons and electrons was in a state of plasma. They were all flying all over theplace and any light passing through there would get scattered or absorbed. So the wholeuniverse was opaque. The light couldn...
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Can you spot the problem with this image? This is the baby photo of our universe. Itshows the whole universe as it was when it was just 380,000 years old.Ok, so that doesn’t sound very young for a baby photo, but if you consider the universetoday to be an 80 year old person, than that image is the equivalent of a baby pic takenat 19 hours after birth. So it truly is a baby photo.But why can’t we get a photo from an earlier time than that? Well, the problem is the universebefore 380,000 thousand years after the big bang was so hot that all the matter in it,all these protons and electrons was in a state of plasma. They were all flying all over theplace and any light passing through there would get scattered or absorbed. So the wholeuniverse was opaque. The light couldn...
