THE ORIGIN OF THE LIGHT ELEMENTS
THE ORIGIN OF THE LIGHT ELEMENTS
BIG BANG THEORY
One of the most popular models describing the early universe
First proposed though not named by Abbé Georges Edouard Lemaître
States that the universe emerged from a state of: Enormous density
Extremely high energy
ORIGIN OF THE TERM BIG BANG
ORIGIN OF THE TERM BIG BANG
The term "Big Bang" was coined in nineteen forty-nine
Introduced by British astronomer Fred Hoyle
The theory was developed in response to Albert Einstein's work