Big Bang Theory: Article Summary #2

NADIS, STEVE. "What Made The Bang So Big?." Discover 36.1 (2015): 16-17. Vocational and Career Collection. Web. 13 Nov. 2015.

In the research article “What Made the Bang so Big,” author Steve Nadis explains the background to the discovery of the Big Bang Theory. Referring to man’s hardest question, “How did it all begin?” Physicist Alan Guth created the theory in 1979, based on the idea that the universe is expanding at a slower rate than when it was created. In summary explanation of the Big Bang, imagine 10 seconds a spot where all of the matter in the universe is contained and they dramatically expands at an astounding rate. This is called inflation, the universe is still expanding only slower. Slow enough that everything cooled down and elements were created to build everything living. Now being able to prove this theory is a daunting task, almost impossible to prove. Until 1997 when a group of five physicists discovered a way to prove Guth’s theory. If light was able to be distorted by remaining inflation gravity then the Big Bang could be seen as plausible. In 2019-2012 the BICEP2 telescope was monitored the sky above Antarctica for inflation light patterns. The team led by John Kovac took a year studying results. They pronounced in 2014 that they had captured images that came from the first second in the histories universe. This momentous discovery is so grand that it is almost too big to accept. Much skepticism has followed the discovery, questioning the accuracy of the findings. However the theory still stands as one of the best explanations for the beginning of the universe.