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Which theory describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature?
Which theory describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature?
- The Theory of Quantum Gravity
- The Theory of Cosmic Inflation
- The Big Bang theory (correct)
- The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) theory
What does the flatness problem in the universe refer to?
What does the flatness problem in the universe refer to?
- The large-scale structure of the Universe
- The overall uniformity of the Universe (correct)
- The cosmic microwave background radiation
- The abundance of light elements
What is cosmic inflation?
What is cosmic inflation?
- The large-scale structure of the Universe
- The sudden and very rapid expansion of space during the earliest moments of the Big Bang (correct)
- The abundance of light elements in the Universe
- The cosmic microwave background radiation
What phenomena do cosmological models of the Big Bang explain?
What phenomena do cosmological models of the Big Bang explain?
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What is currently lacking in physics to model the earliest conditions of the Big Bang?
What is currently lacking in physics to model the earliest conditions of the Big Bang?
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