The Big Bang

Cosmologists and other scientists have written a series of mathematical equations sometimes called the Standard Model of Cosmology (or the Lambda-CDM model) that describe the Universe today. Working backward in time, this model allows them to discover how the Universe started - the Big Bang.

11 August 2010

3 minutes

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Horizon—2009-2010, Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

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