Code Number: 8C10.10

Demo Title: The Big Bang

Condition: Theory

Principle: The Big Bang

Area of Study: Cosmology

References:

Ted Forringer, "A Guided Inquiry on Hubble Plots and the Big Bang", TPT, Vol. 52, # 4, April 2014, p. 199.
Martin Gardner, "Physics Trick of the Month: Broken Symmetry", TPT, Vol. 38, # 9, Dec. 2000, p. 564.
Anna Frebel, Volker Bromm, "Precious Fossils of the Infant Universe", Physics Today, April 2012, p. 49.
Sanchayeeta Borthakur et al, "A Local Clue to the Reionixation of the Universe", Science, Vol. 346, Oct. 2014, p. 216.
George Gamow, "# 2, The Evolutionary Universe", Scientific American Cosmology +1, Sept. 1956, p. 12. See the Lecture Demo Reference Library in Rm. 58 for this reference.

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8C10.10 - The Big Bang

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