Big Bang Theory

Cards (7)

  • In 1965, radio astronomers picked up what seemed to be a radio noise that came from all directions, Princeton University acknowledged that the radio noise was a distant echo of cosmos radiation.
  • Albert Einstein provides a significant clarification to the idea of the Big Bang by asserting that the Big bang did not just create matter but space-time as well.
  • It is estimated that the earth formed four to six million years ago.
  • The study of rocks and the fossils embedded in them that has provided the most important clues to the early beginnings of the Earth.
  • Radiometric dating allows scientists to determine the ages of rock strata in thousands or millions of years before the present.
  • Radiometric dating involves the calculation of when the decay process began based on certain radioactive isotopes.
  • Certain examples of isotopes are potassium-40. It's a radioactive isotope. An example of a stable isotope is argon-40. Another radioactive isotope is carbon-14.