"Big Bang" Article Items

White Dwarf Stars

Sirius and White Dwarf

Posted on May 10, 2019 by

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The age of white dwarf stars is one of the best ways to help determine the age of the universe.  We took a brief look at how this is done. But to really understand how this is done, it is necessary to take a deep dive into what a white dwarf star really is, how they form, how they cool off, how all white dwarfs are nearly identical, and how they are able to determine the age of the universe. White dwarf stars are the dead remnants of old stars that are no longer burning nuclear fuel; they are still… Read More »

Big Bang Confirmed

big bang image

Posted on May 2, 2019 by

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The existence of the Big Bang has been confirmed through multiple independent mechanisms to have occurred about 13.78 billion years ago.  We can even measure the left-over temperature from the Big Bang in empty space. Two of the greatest discoveries made in cosmology during the twentieth century were that the universe is flat (space is not curved), and the cosmological constant (space is now expanding at an ever-accelerating rate).  These are important because they both imply that the universe had a beginning – that it is not eternal. Space and time were both created at the big bang event and… Read More »

Not A Chance

Big Bang History

Posted on April 28, 2019 by

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There is Not a Chance the universe could have been created without an intelligent designer.  The more we have learned about the universe and about physics in general, the more we have come to understand the complexity of science.  But even more importantly, we have also come to understand how the physical constants of nature are required to be the values they are in a very precise manner, even though they do not have to be that value at all. One of the physical constants – the cosmological constant – is one of the most precisely tuned constants required for… Read More »

COBE Finds the Big Bang

COBE satellite

Posted on April 27, 2019 by

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COBE Finds the Big Bang The COBE satellite was able to find hard evidence for the occurrence of the Big Bang.  Further study would make this event one of the best understood and best-documented events in the history of the universe. One of the greatest discoveries of the twentieth century was the cosmic background radiation and what it means.  The background radiation comes to earth from all directions equally and is nearly exactly the same (isotopy) in all directions as well.  The existence and characteristics of this radiation were predicted decades before its initial characterization in 1992, but the importance… Read More »