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The Big Bang Or… The Standard Model

Precepts of the standard model The laws of Physics are the same throughout the Universe. The Universe is expanding The Universe is isotropic and homogeneous General relativity works. The early Universe was hotter than it is today The Universe is evolving. The cosmological principle.

A bit of history... 1916 Einstein’s General relativity predicts that the Universe is either expanding or contracting 1920s Hubble discovers the expansion of the Universe. 1940s Gamow et al work on a Big Bang model: If space is expanding, then it was once small If it was small, it was hot. (Adiabatic expansion cools) If it was once hot, it should be a little warm now.

Nobody paid any attention to these predictions A bit of history... They (Gamow) predicted that we should still be able to see radiation from the young Universe. (This is known as the cosmic microwave background radiation or CMBR) The radiation should have a Wien temperature of about 5 K Display a black body curve Be the same in all directions Nobody paid any attention to these predictions

A bit of history... 1965 Arno Penzias and Richard Wilson are having “noise” problems with their radio telescope: 7.35 cm radiation is everywhere. At first they think it is their equipment But it’s coming from “out there”

A bit of history... 1989 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft measures the CMBR. The radiation is isotropic It has a Wien temperature of 2.726 K It is exactly black body as predicted by the big bang:

A bit of history... 1992 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) measures miniscule fluctuations in the CMBR. The fluctuations are exactly what the big bang model predicts from the Heisenberg uncertainty of the early Universe: - (Smoot and the “eye of God”)

A bit of history... Spherical Harmonics. - the ringing of the universe Spring 2000, Boomerang measures primordial sound waves:

This Just In (2/18/2003) WMAP probe places the age of universe at 13.7 billion years with 1% margin of error Photon de-coupling at 380,000 years

The Standard Model Thermal Energy decreases Now Bang Now Thermal Energy decreases (Allows creation of things with less and less binding energy) Like condensation

The Standard Model Basic concepts: Adiabatic expansion Bang Now Basic concepts: Adiabatic expansion Stretching of radiation Matter becoming energy, Energy becoming matter Matter as “condensed” energy

The Standard Model Before 10-43 seconds: General Relativity doesn’t work Don’t yet have a quantum theory of gravity We think the four forces of nature were unified. (Um… Gravity, Electromagnetic, Weak Nuclear, and Strong Nuclear)

The Standard Model 10-43 seconds to 10-35 seconds: Gravity has “condensed” out No distinction between fundamental particles.

The Standard Model 10-35 seconds to 10-4 seconds: Strong Nuclear Separate Quarks are confined Hadron era (Protons and Neutrons are Hadrons) Energy of photons… Roughly equal Matter and Anti matter being created and destroyed. Slight imbalance of Matter (1 in 109)

The Standard Model 10-4 seconds to 10 seconds: Photon Energy drops below mass of Hadrons Hadron matter annihilates Hadron anti matter Lepton era (electrons, positrons, neutrinos) (there are also photons around) Lepton eat lepton universe Republicans first appear

The Standard Model 10 seconds to .38 x 106 years: Thermal Energy drops below mass of Leptons Lepton matter annihilates Lepton anti matter Slight imbalance of Matter persists to this day(1 in 109) Radiation era (neutrinos, photons) Republicans annihilate Democrats. Slight imbalance of Republicans remains to this day

The Standard Model .38 x 106 years to Present: Thermal energy drops below binding energy of atomic electrons Atoms are born Photons de-couple from matter (To become CMBR) Expansion of the Universe stretches out radiation Universe is now matter dominated. Soon after atoms form, stars and galaxies form as well.

The Standard Model Meanwhile back at the ranch: About 2 or 3 minutes after the Big Bang, fusion occurs. 1H, 2H, 3H, 4He…maybe some Lithium…are created (No A = 5 or 8) BBN theory predicts that 75% of matter be Hydrogen, and 25% Helium. This is what we see today. Stars forge heavy elements later. Older stars should have fewer heavy elements than new ones.

The Future of the Universe Expand forever (greater than escape velocity) Uh oh Expand to a halt (exactly escape velocity) Come back together (less than escape velocity) Three possible scenarios:

The Future of the Universe Negatively curved. (Less than critical density) Flat (Critical Density) Positively curved. (More than critical density) Three possible curvatures:

Curvature On a flat surface, C = 2πr, and triangles interior angles that add up to 180o The Two-Dimensional surface of a sphere has positive curvature. C is less than 2πr Triangles have more than 180o The saddle has negative curvature C is more than 2πr Triangles have less than 180o

Curvature C is more than 2πr Triangles have less than 180o The saddle has negative curvature C is more than 2πr Triangles have less than 180o

Curvature Radio astronomers have tried to determine the curvature by looking at the distribution of radio sources. But the radio sources themselves are evolving…

The search for 3 numbers… Ho - The Hubble constant The current rate of expansion We think it is 50 to 70 km/s/Mpc qo - The deceleration parameter Rate of braking due to gravity λ - The cosmological constant Anti gravity. (Nobody likes this one much)

For convenience: Ω - Omega - a combination of the Hubble constant and the Deceleration parameter. (related to the mass density of the Universe) Ω Less than one Ω Exactly one Ω More than one

Unity of Omega As far as we can tell, Omega has a value of nearly one. We think it is exactly one The only value that would not change as the Universe expands Would not violate the Cosmological Principle But how is it exactly one…..

Inflationary Hypothesis As far as we can see, the Universe is flat Coincidence? Inflationary hypothesis: The early Universe expanded much faster than the speed of light. The visible universe is much larger than the entire universe It only appears flat. We may never know the true curvature.

The Age of the Universe Given the current rate of expansion and deceleration parameter, we think the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old Big Ho and little Ho With gravity - younger than linear With anti gravity - older than linear Uh oh

The Age of the Universe Given the current rate of expansion and deceleration parameter, we think the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old Big Ho and little Ho With gravity - older With anti gravity - younger Stellar physicists calculate that the oldest stars are also about 13.7 billion years old Nuclear decay also suggests an age around 13.7 billion years. Meteors from the solar system

Problems with the big bang We can see only about 10% of the matter that we know must be there. Deceleration parameter Motion of galaxies Spiral galaxies are perhaps stabilized by a halo of dark matter

Where is all the matter? Two candidates for dark matter: MAssive Compact Halo Objects. (MACHOs) - baryonic (normal) matter Star cinders Microlensing survey Variable stars Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) - non baryonic Structure of galaxies implies WIMPS Neutrinos LSP

“Paradoxes” of the Big Bang: There can be no effect without a cause. Quantum mechanics deals with many things that have no cause. God apparently does play with dice You can’t get something from nothing. The net energy of the universe may be zero Gravitational energy is negative Other energies are positive Infinite regress: what came before before? May be a “bedrock” paradox The universe might have arisen from a quantum fluctuation. A big one.

Expansion of the Universe Other Theories (that pretty much everyone ignores) Expansion of the Universe Tired Light theory E = hf Redshift is due to energy loss C-Field Matter is being created in all parts of the infinitely old Universe. How do you explain the CMB? Plasma model Pulsations - some parts expand, others contract. Hasn’t made testable predictions.