Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: Our understanding of the genesis and evolution of the universe is one of the great achievements of 20th- -century science This knowledge comes from decades of innovative experiments and theories Moderr telescopes on the ground and ir space detect the light from galaxies billions of light- years away showing US what the universe looked like when it was young Particle accelerators probe the basic physics of the high- energy environment of the early universe. Satellites detect the cosmic background radiation left over from the early stages of expansion providing an image of the universe on the largest scales we can observe Our best efforts to explain this wealth of data are embodied in a theory known as the standard cosmological model or the big bang cosmology The major claim of the theory is ...
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