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The Big Bang: Fact or Fiction? The Big Bang debate A new perspective? Dr Cormac O’Raifeartaigh

Cosmology Is it finite? how big is it? Is it eternal? how old is it? How did it begin ? The study of the cosmos Not science?

Greek cosmology The geocentric universe Centre of universe All motion about earth Aristotle (350 BC) Ptolemy (200 AD) Earth motionless Eternal universe

gravity caused by sun’s mass Newton ( ) planet orbits due to gravity Newton’s cosmology Eternal, infinite universe attractive force space, time fixed Paradoxes?

20 th cent astronomy: the galaxies powerful telescopes photography Edwin Hubble ( ) 1920s: many galaxies Cepheid variables  stellar distances  other galaxies

The expanding universe Edwin Hubble ( ) Far-away galaxies rushing away at a speed proportional to distance v = H o d 1929: galaxies moving apart

Note: Doppler Effect frequency of light depends on relative motion of observers Redshift Controversy?

The origin of the universe rewind Hubble graph universe smaller in the past extremely dense, extremely hot? primeaval atom? Fr Georges Lemaitre Expanding and cooling ever since

Lemaitre: Age of the universe velocity = distance / time but v = H o d hence time = 1 / H o How long since BB? t~ 14 billion yr Co-produced model?Wrong estimate at first

Reception (classical): nonsense! gravity pulls in not out space is fixed time has no beginning Newton What is pushing out? What happened at time zero? How can U be younger than stars? Isaac Newton

Reception: general relativity space and time = spacetime spacetime affected by mass gravity = distortion of spacetime Modern theory of gravity (1916) Einstein (1916) Evidence: orbit of Mercury, bending of starlight Note: not Kuhnian paradigm shift

Reception (relativity): nonsense! space-time dynamic? Einstein: static universe (1917) Friedmann: expanding universe Einstein vs Lemaitre: Apply Einstein’s gravity to the cosmos gravity vs expansion  1933: Einstein capitulates  relativity supports BB small community only: pedagogy

The Big Bang model 14 billion years ago, U concentrated in tiny volume primordial explosion of matter, energy, space and time U expanding and cooling ever since Misnomer: singularity problem Not accepted

Predictions of Big Bang model √ 1. The expansion of the U 2. Nucleosynthesis 3. The cosmic background radiation

1940s: nuclear physics H, He nuclei (1 s) atoms (300,000 yr) U = 75% H, 25% He heavier atoms formed in stars confirmed by Hoyle Georges Gamow (1906 –1968) nuclear fission nuclear fusion apply to Big Bang model no impact

BB prediction 3: microwave background radiation from hot origin released when atoms form recombination (300,000 yr) radiation still observable? Alpher, Gamow and Herman BB : superhot superdense beginning low temp, microwave frequency No-one looked (1940s) Forgotten knowledge

Instead: steady-state model (1950s) New attack on BB Expanding universe Consistent with relativity BUT No beginning Matter continuously created Fred Hoyle Co-produced model? Deviation? Large impact

Steady-State prediction: eternal U  Continuous creation  Density of matter constant  U unchanging, eternal  Distant galaxies similar to present?  Youngest galaxies similar to present? Falsification possible

Answer: radio-astronomy (1960s) Ryle: radio sources Study most distant galaxies Study density and intensity Density the same at all times? (SS) Or different? (BB) Answer: different Cambridge 3C survey Martin Ryle PULSARS! Blow for SS

Radio-astronomy: CMB (1965) radio-astronomy microwave frequency temperature 3 K Echo of Big Bang! CMB observed accidentally Penzias and Wilson Gamow ignored

Modern measurements of CMB accurate measurements full spectrum perfect fit with theory COBE satellite (1992)

Cosmic background radiation expected temperature expected frequency perfect blackbody spectrum COBE (1992) Nobel Prize 2006 radiation quite uniform? 1 in 10,000 galaxy formation?

Cosmology Today Cosmic inflation (CMB) Dark energy (CMB) What happened at BB? Quantum gravity Singularity at time zero?  Strong evidence for relativity Black holes, GPS  Hawking theorems

Revised Friedmann universes

Summary Evidence for BB model (expanding U 1929) Accepted by relativists (1933) Resisted by physics community New avenues of evidence for BB (1948,49) Ignored by physics community Rise of rival SS model (1950) Defeat of SS model (radiogalaxies, 1960) New evidence for BB (CMB 1965) Model gradually accepted (1968..) Latest: cyclic universe?