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BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
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The universe is ____ billion years old.
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11
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15
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4
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23
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Measurements made by NASA’s WMAP spacecraft have shown that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus about 130, 000 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -At a particular instant roughly 15 billion years ago, all the matter and energy we can observe, concentrated in a region smaller than a dime, began to expand and cool at an incredibly rapid rate.
Detailed explanation-3: -The basics of the theory are fairly simple. In short, the Big Bang hypothesis states that all of the current and past matter in the Universe came into existence at the same time, roughly 13.8 billion years ago.
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