Read the following article about a brand new discovery that is astounding the world of astrophysics!
Comment below with your thoughts about how the nature of science is affected by the accumulation of new evidence. How did this discovery support the current working theory of the Universe's beginning, the Big Bang Theory?
After reading the article about the newly found prof of the Big Bang, i was in awe. It's amazing how just recently we referred to the idea of Big Bang as a theory and now we are on the verge of it becoming fact. I thought it was very interesting how the Harvard researchers were able to create a device that changes all that data into a picture, something you can actually look at. Now they are saying the point was a slightly bigger than the blink of an eye, that part was confusing a bit because I wasn't sure if they were referring to the time that it took up and said it was longer than blink of an eye, or if they meant in as in size and that it was slightly bigger than an eye. Either way, both are astonishing. This idea which scientist have been looking into for decades is finally about to be proved.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned by the author of the article, the data that these astrophysicists found is very remarkable. What stands out most to me is the idea that despite the universes creation within a matter of seconds the approximate timeframe can be traced of when or how long ago the expansion began. Also it's the nature in which the Big Bang occurred that makes the discovery even more exciting. For example one can imagine that an event of such large proportions happened so rapidly that radiation levels in space quickly spiked from nothing. In other words Because of the sudden presence of radiation in space, Cosmic background radiation is still evident today perhaps due to small pockets of heat or evaporated gases. This discovery is extremely fascinating for many reasons but maybe most importantly is because of the fact that it gives us a more accurate picture of when the universe began
ReplyDeleteI was surprised by how recent the discovery of the Big Bang is compared to other discoveries, and now we have more new evidence that might actually prove it happened without a doubt. The fact that we actually have images of the cosmic radiation is amazing. This discovery now has given us an opportunity to get a more concrete picture of the universe in the beginning, which is mind blowing that we can see that without actually seeing the bang.
ReplyDeleteAs the article states, this discovery is something worthy of a noble-prize. Till this date, there has been no solid evidence to support whether the Big Bang Theory was really true. Since it was a theory, by definition, it is something that we can't disprove, rather it is something that can be supported with evidence. Since cosmologists at Harvard were able to identify signals of cosmic background radiation, it is safe to say that this is a step in the right direction in terms of attempting to fully conceptualize how the universe was first formed. Additionally, since the signal is coming through stronger than expected, it rules out other large scale inflation models proposed by other physicist. For now, much of the data has to go through massive amounts of scrutiny from several scientists and confirmed by observations in other experiments. But, once the data is confirmed, we can finally single out one explanation for the creation of the universe instead of having several untested theories.
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