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    Cosmologists think in terms of lookback time rather than distance. The age of the universe limits the size of our observable universe. The cosmic microwave background is the relic radiation from the big bang.

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    Cosmologists think in terms of lookback time rather than distance. The age of the universe limits the size of our observable universe. The cosmic microwave background is the relic radiation from the big bang.

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    The expansion rate appears to be the same everywhere in space the universe

    has no center and no edge


    The cosmological principle
    The universe looks about the same no matter where you are within it
    Matter is evenly distributed on a very large scale in the universe
    Age of the universe
    Hubbles constant tells us the age of the universe because it relates velocities and
    distances of all galaxies
    Using measurements from the earliest galaxies, Hubbles constant tells us the age
    of the universe is about 14 billion years old
    The universes expansion affect our distance measurements
    Distances between faraway galaxies change while light travels
    Astronomers think in terms of lookback time rather than distance
    Cosmological horizon represents the distance at which lookback time equals the 14
    billion year age of the universe
    The age of the universe limits the size of our observable universe we cannot see
    any object beyond our cosmological horizon
    It is a boundary in time, not space
    Expansion stretches photon wavelengths, causing a cosmological redshift directly
    related to lookback time
    Primary evidence for big bang
    We have detected the relic radiation from the big bang
    The big bang theory correctly predicts the abundance of helium and other light
    elements in the universe
    The cosmic microwave background is the relic radiation from the big bang
    It was first detected by Penzias and Wilson in 1965
    Background radiation from the big bang began to freely stream across the universe
    when atoms formed at ~3000K. this temperature corresponds to a visible IR
    spectrum
    Since thermal radiation from the big bang became free, the universes expansion
    has redshifted the visible IR spectrum to ~1000 times longer wavelength, now at
    microwave range
    Background has prefect thermal radiation spectrum temperature 2.73K
    Protons and neutrons combined to make long lasting helium nuclei when the
    universe was 5 minutes old
    Big bang theory predicts 75% H, 25% He (by mass)
    This matches our observations of nearly primordial gases

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