History of the Universe

The background glow predicted by the Big Bang model has been on its journey to Earth for almost ___

• 13.8 billion years

• 31.8 billion years

• 81.8 billion years

• 318 billion years

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In the beginning there was nothing... then there was ___

• light

• matter

• everything

• galaxies

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Cosmology is much like any other field of science; we have ___

• theology

• clues, observations and rules

• creation myths

• authority and blind trust

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A lot of what we know about the early universe comes from experiments done in giant ___

• mass spectrometers

• infrared spectrometers

• bomb calorimeters

• particle colliders

When the universe got its start, it was unfathomably ___

• hot and desolate

• hot and dense

• cold and desolate

• cold and dense

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Three minutes after the Big Bang, the Universe cooled enough that the subatomic particles could ___

• freeze

• collide

• stick together

• disintegrate

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After 380 millennia, the Universe cooled enough to form stable neutral atoms. We call this moment ___

• assemblage

• unity

• recombination

• coalescence

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After recombination, matter in the early Universe was ___

• evenly distributed and had the same temperature

• evenly distributed and had varying temperature

• unevenly distributed and had the same temperature

• unevenly distributed and had varying temperature

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What is the Big Bang Theory?

• A scientific theory about the origin of the universe, stating it began from a small singularity and expanded over billions of years.

• A theory that explains the formation of stars and galaxies.

• A hypothesis about the end of the universe.

• A concept related to the formation of black holes.

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Which of the following elements was formed first in the universe according to the Big Bang nucleosynthesis?

• Helium

• Carbon

• Oxygen

• Iron

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