"The Unbroken Story" --Birth of the Universe to the Big Bang & Beyond
The Big Bang theory says that our universe began with a colossal explosion, about 14 billion years ago, and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Astronomers combine mathematical models with observations to develop workable theories of how the universe came to be, including Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity along with standard theories of fundamental particles. Today, NASA spacecraft such as the Hubble Space Telescope continue measuring the expansion of the universe. We can now “tell an unbroken story, from inflation to the postinflation period, to the Big Bang an...