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Big Bang Theory It's inevitable that with over 6 billion people here on Earth, there will be different views upon how our universe was created. Views are mainly fueled by faith or science but the modern view of today's era is the Big Bang Theory. The theory states that the universe started at one single spot, and has been expanding ever since (Big Bang Theory, N.P.). Of course it's crazy, and highly difficult, for many of us to imagine something so large starting from one tiny spot; so indeed there are faults in the theory. Modern science however strongly supports this idea and truth be told, it's the best we have. The theory estimates that the universe is about 13.7 billion years old! This means that if this theory is correct, …show more content…

There are many contributing scientists to pieces of the big bang theory but one in particular is vastly important, Georges Lemaître, the creator of the theory. He first suggested the big bang theory in the 1920s when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom. From that point many scientists and astrologers leant their hands out to the theory including Edwin Hubble who observed that galaxies are speeding away from us in all directions and by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson who co discovered cosmic microwave radiation (Origins, N.P.). Lemaître's idea of the single atom is the spec earlier mentioned. When Edwin Hubble comes along and states this bizarre notion it brings many questions to mind but he backs his statements up well by using the Doppler Effect. Hubble didn't create the idea of the Doppler Effect but he did put it to the greatest use possible. The idea of the Doppler Effect is usually applied to sound. Sound consists of waves ranging from a high to a low frequency. As an object approaches us the frequency of these waves become higher, and then lower as it passes. The same idea can be applied to light waves. We can see this using a spectrum which has a different color for different frequencies. If the color being read from the spectrum is leaning toward the red side, then the frequency is low meaning the object is moving away from us. Applying this idea to distant stars and galaxies proved that they are moving away

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