Week 1

Question 1

Suggests that the universe is infinite

Answer 1

Steady State Theory

Question 2

Steady State Theory was propsed by

Answer 2

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

Question 3

Steady State Theory was proposed in

Answer 3

1940s

Question 4

Process of creating new atomic nuclei

Answer 4

Nucleosynthesis

Question 5

Aims to explain the abundance of chemical elements and their isotopes in the universe through the fusion of lighter elements to form heavier ones

Answer 5

Nucleosynthesis theory

Question 6

Suggests that the universe originated from a small, dense point without a bang or a sudden loud explosion

Answer 6

Big Bang Theory

Question 7

Isaac Newton

Answer 7

1642-1727

Question 8

Albert Einstein

Answer 8

1879-1955

Question 9

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Answer 9

1882-1944

Question 10

Proposed the law of gravitation

Answer 10

Newton

Question 11

Proved that gravity creates a distortion on the space-time continuum

Answer 11

Einstein and Eddington

Question 12

First to propose the concept of the big bang

Answer 12

Georges Lamaitre (1894-1966)

Question 13

Big bang was proposed in

Answer 13

1927

Question 14

Provided evidence for a much larger universe through his sophisticated telescope in ——

Answer 14

Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), 1929

Question 15

When a galaxy is moving away from Earth, the wavelength of its light stretches and the galaxy appears to be red

Answer 15

Redshift phenomenon

Question 16

Proposed that the abundance of hydrogen and helium atoms in the universe could be explained by a big bang event, in——

Answer 16

George Gamow (1904-19680 and Ralph Alpher(1921-2007), 1938

Question 17

Suggested that the remnant heat from the big bang event can still be detected at present. In —-

Answer 17

Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman (1914-1997), 1949

Question 18

——Accidentally discovered the remnant radiation from the big bang cosmology in ——, called——

Answer 18

Arno Allan Penzias(1993) and Robert Wilson(1936), 1965, cosmic microwave background (CMB)