EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Tests of Big Bang: The CMB. The Big Bang theory predicts that the early universe was a very hot place and that as it expands, the gas within it cools. Thus the universe should be filled with radiation that is literally the remnant heat left over from the Big Bang, called the “cosmic microwave background", or CMB.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the cooled remnant of the first light that could ever travel freely throughout the Universe. This ‘fossil’ radiation, the furthest that any telescope can see, was released soon after the ‘Big Bang’. Scientists consider it as an echo or ‘shockwave’ of the Big Bang.

Detailed explanation-3: -While the CMBR is evidence in support of the Big Bang model, measurements of this radiation have suggested it is very smoothly distributed throughout the Universe. Too smooth for lumpy bits of matter such as stars and galaxies to form.

Detailed explanation-4: -CMBR is a second piece of evidence to show the expansion of space, and this supports the Big Bang model of the origin of the Universe. The short wavelengths of the gamma radiation emitted in the initial explosion are believed to have become stretched due to the expansion of space into longer wavelength microwaves.