Big Bang Theory

When did the universe begin?

• 15 million years ago

• 13.8 billion years ago

• 4 thousand years ago

• 10 trillion years ago

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What was the size and composition of the singularity before the Big Bang?

• Slightly bigger than an atom and made of matter

• The size of an electron and made of the forces

• Bigger than a photon and made of light

• Smaller than an atom and made of pure energy

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What did NOT come from the singularity?

• Matter

• Forces

• Space

• Alternate universe

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What was before the Big Bang?

• Nothing

• A multiverse

• A past universe

• Chaos and disorder

How did the singularity expand and how fast?

• Explode like a bomb and faster than sound

• Deflate like an old balloon and as fast as a black hole

• Inflate like a balloon and faster than light

• Implosion like a crushed can and the same speed as light

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What happened 1-3 minutes after the Big Bang?

• Energy warmed to the temperature necessary for nuclear fusion

• The first stars were born from freezing matter

• The first atoms coalesced through precipitation of quarks

• Energy became cool enough to form protons, neutrons and electrons

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What were the first atoms to form after the Big Bang?

• Oxygen and carbon

• Hydrogen and helium

• Helium and sodium

• Carbon and hydrogen

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Why did the universe flash a hot orange color 379,000 years ago?

• The creation of atoms and photons allowed for the first light

• Sodium was created which burns orange at high temperature

• The universe cooled to a temperature that humans could see

• Hydrogen and helium fused to become the first star

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What was the name of the first light and what was left after this flash?

• The MVD led to the creation of the first stars

• Galaxies formed after the CDC

• After the CMB was a dark period due the lack of stars

• The rest of the elements were created after the LMB

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What happened 200-400 million years after the Big Bang?

• Less dense regions of the universe formed the rarest of elements

• Denser regions of the early universe formed the first short lived stars

• The first galaxies formed from the space between dense and less dense regions

• The nebula that would give birth to our solar system formed

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