The Big Bang

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What did we know?

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Goals

To explain the Big Bang theory To show the achievements of

modern science To generate interest in astronomy To have fun

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The Big Bang is a cosmological scientific theory describing the

early development of the Universe.

What did we learn?

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The great scientist - Albert Einstein

God does not play dice

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Edwin Hubble

1. The Milky Way is

not the only galaxy

in the Universe.

2. The Universe

is expanding.

How it all began?"The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended; some few red wisps, ashes and smoke. Standing on a cooled cinder, we see the slow fading of the suns, and we try to recall the vanishing brilliance of the origin of the worlds."

Georges Lematre

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The History of the Universe

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What ELSE is there to learn?

Questionnaire

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We know only 4% of the Universe

Why is it smiling so mysteriously?

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References1. Amir D. Aczel: 1999, God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity,

and the Expanding Universe, Random House Inc, New

York.

2. Brian Green: 2003, The Elegant Universe, Superstrings,

Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate

Theory, W. W. Norton & Company.

3. Roger Freedman, William J. Kaufmann: 2008, Universe 8th

Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York

4. Mike Inglis: 2007, Astrophysics is Easy! An Introduction for

the Amateur Astronomer, Springer.

5. Stephen Hawking: 1988, A Brief History of Time, Bantam

Dell Publishing Group.

6. J. M. T. Thompson editor: 2005, Advances in Astronomy;

From the Big Bang to the Solar System, Imperial College

Press, Royal Society Series on Advances in Science-Vol. 1

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