EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - PATTY CANYONG, GOLDINE SILVA

BY: MARY AYSHA CARIZZ O. ELVAS

 WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The Big Bang Theory is the astronomers' best guess on how

the universe came to be. It theorizes that the universe started
as a small point and eventually enlarged its size. The
expansion might have slowed down compared to when it first
began, but it is constantly enlarging at a moderate pace.
 Multiple pieces of evidence back up
the Big Bang Theory. There is the
observed expansion in space, for one.
Then there's also the discovery of the
CMB or constant microwave
background, and there's the recorded
increased quantity of elements.
Radiation Era
The era of radiation, is one of the two major stages that came after the
Big Bang. The era of radiation is also known as the era of radiation
dominance or the primordial fireball, which refers to the post-Big Bang
period when the energy density of electromagnetic radiation was
greater than the energy density of matter.

Matter Era
Matter gradually began to form into atoms and eventually into clusters
of atoms. From the start of the matter era, matter dominated radiation,
and it has dominated radiation ever since, successively forming
galaxies, stars, planets, and life.
 Scientists believe that around 100,000 years after the big bang,
helium and hydrogen combined to make a molecule called
helium hydride for the first time. Since the Big Bang, the universe
has been expanding. In the early years, everything was made of
gas. This gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, expanded and
cooled. Over billions of years, gravity caused gas and dust to
form galaxies, stars , planets, and more. The matter that unfolded
out from the Big Bang evolved into the whole lot within side the
universe, which includes you. You are made from star stuff!
0 TO 10-43 S Big Bang

10-43 S Planck Time

10-35 S End of GUT

10-35 TO 10-33 S Inflation

10-12 S End of unified forces

10-7 S Heavy Particle

10-4 S Light Particle

100 S (A FEW MINUTES) Nucleosynthesis era

380,000 YEARS Recombination (Decoupling)

500 MILLION YEARS Galaxy formation

14 BILLION YEARS Current era

The universe, according to
the Big Bang Theory, is
about 13.8 billion years old.
 ESA NASA
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