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The Big Bang Theory


The red shift is a Doppler effect, which states if a galaxy is moving away, the spectral line of that galaxy observed would have a shift to the red end. The faster the galaxy moved the more shift it had. If the galaxy is not moving, there is no shift at all. If the galaxy is moving closer to the spectral line it will show a blue shift. However as astronomers have observed the more distance a galaxy is located from the earth the more red shift it shows. Therefore the further a galaxy is away from the spectral line the faster it moves.
             Some astronomers state that there should be some evidence that can still be observed. That evidence is radiation left over by the Big Bang. There should still be small remnant of radiation left over from the original violent explosion of the fireball in the past. In time that radiation from the fireball would spread out, cool, and fill the expanding universe uniformly. By now it would strike earth as microwave radiation. In 1965 physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected microwave radiation coming equally from all directions in the sky, day and night all year; so does that mean that they found some particles from the big explosion or could it be a mix up?.
             Another mystery of the Universe was the cosmic background radiation. Cosmic background radiation is made up of photons throughout the universe that are floating for no apparent reason in space. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were able to prove that the radiation could only result from a huge explosion as great as the Big Bang and that the radiation had at one point dominated the universe. Now how can radiation dominate the universe? As the universe expanded, so did the radiation causing the radiation to stretch, which caused it to be almost everywhere. The most important aspect of their discoveries about the cosmic background radiation was the fact that it supported the Big Band Theory.


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