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The Beginning of Time:
Evidence for the Big Bang &the Theory of Inflation
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A Brief History of the Universe <10-43 seconds: Planck era
before the Planck time (all known laws of physics break down and we can’t say anything about what conditions were like)
10-43 - 10-38 seconds: GUT era all four forces are “unified” (have the same
strength) 10-38 -10-10 seconds: electroweak era
the electromagnetic and weak force become distinct.
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the particle era 10-10 - 0.001 seconds: particle era
plasma of fundamental particles (matter and anti-matter)
for some unknown reason, there must have been slightly more matter than anti-matter, at least in our corner of the Universe
at the end of the particle era, matter and anti-matter annihilate, leaving mostly matter. Photons outnumber protons by a billion to 1.
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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis 0.001 seconds– 3 minutes: nucleosynthesis
temperatures of 109 K allow hydrogen nuclei to fuse into helium nuclei.
proton
neutron
deuterium
3H
4He
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the density of baryons
deuterium is formed in the course of fusing hydrogen to helium, and some is still left over
the observed ratio of deuterium to hydrogen and helium tells us the density of baryons (protons and neutrons) during the era of nucleosynthesis
observations of deuterium abundance show that the density of baryons is about 5 % of the critical density
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at very high temperatures (>1011 K) protons and neutrons can change into one another
as the Universe cools, protons (which are slightly less massive) become favored
ratio of protons to neutrons at the time when nucleosynthesis begins is predicted to be 7 to 1.
prediction: hydrogen 75 %helium 25%
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Recombination 3 minutes – 500,000 years: recombination
hydrogen and helium nuclei capture electrons and become neutral atoms. The Universe becomes transparent to photons.
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Stars and Galaxies the plasma of neutral atoms gradually cools
and protogalactic clouds form. The first stars form out of the hydrogen and
helium, make heavy elements, etc. planets life astronomers etc…
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Light from the Big Bang
in 1965, Penzias and Wilson discovered an unexpected signal at microwave frequencies
this signal looked the same in all directions, and could not be attributed to any particular source
Penzias and Wilson thought there must be something wrong with their experiment!
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Penzias & Wilson
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Cosmic Microwave Background
it was soon realized that this radiation came from the hot Universe soon after the Big Bang!
cosmological redshifting over the huge distance this light has traveled has shifted the wavelength from the visible to the microwave
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electronplasma“soup” traps photons
electrons attached to atoms, photons stream through
last scattering surface
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COBE satellite
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The COBE experiment
COBE showed that the CMB is an almost perfect blackbody (thermal) spectrum with a temperature of 2.73 K
the CMB is incredibly uniform in all directions; but COBE detected variations from place to place of one part in 105
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Spectrum of the CMB
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Temperature of the sky
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Implications of COBE results: the temperature and spectrum of the
CMB measured by COBE is very strong confirmation of the hot Big Bang theory
the small temperature differences detected by COBE provide direct evidence that the Universe was lumpy on small scales at early times
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The Boomerang experiment
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Constraining the Geometry of the Universe
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The MAP satellite
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All sky temperature map: predicted results from MAP
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in the next few years…
results from MAP and other new CMB experiments will allow us to determine the values of all of the cosmological parameters to an accuracy of 10 percentmatter densitygeometrybaryon densityexpansion rate (Hubble parameter)and much more…
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Some remaining questions
where did those lumps come from (needed to seed structure formation)?
why is the Universe so smooth on large scales?
why is the Universe so close to a flat geometry (implying that the density of matter and energy is very close to the critical density)?
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Isotropy problem
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Inflation
the theory of inflation is an attempt to solve all of these problems
this theory says that the Universe went through a brief period of very rapid expansion soon after the Big Bang – perhaps growing by as much as a factor of 1030 in 10-36 seconds.
perhaps caused by the “freeze out” of the strong force from the GUT “super-force”
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The observable Universe
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quantum fluctuations
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Inflated quantum ripples
quantum fluctuations get expanded to the size needed to seed structure formation – and variations seen in the CMB
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Inflation would have “expanded away” any curvature that the Universe may have once had
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the flatness problem
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We are here because, more than ten billion years ago, the Universe borrowed energy from the vacuum to create vast amounts of matter and anti-matter in nearly equal quantities…Your body is a collection of the atoms that were created billions of years ago in the interiors of stars, the fraction of a fraction of a percent of normal matter that escaped annihilation in the first microsecond of the Universe.