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The Big Bang's Last Great Prediction

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-the-beginning dept.

StartsWithABang (3485481) writes "Even with the add-ons of dark matter, dark energy and inflation, the Big Bang still thrives as the most successful scientific model of the Universe ever constructed. It not only accounting for phenomena like the abundance of the light elements, the cosmic microwave background, and the Universe's large-scale structure, but it's led to observable predictions about their details that have since been verified. But there's one thing the Big Bang has generically predicted that we haven't been able to test: a cosmic background of low-energy, relic neutrinos."

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  1. Relic Hunter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We must collect the low-energy neutrinos before the neo-Nazis find them!

  2. Re:only a blog post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bloggers are the new journalists in the hipster era, soon to be known as the Stupid Ages.

  3. Re:Bothered by u38cg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, when you create a theory of the universe's creation, you should probably take a hint from the name "universe" that there will be just one starting point...

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  4. It still does not answer the biggest question... by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will Sheldon finally find a way to communicate with Penny?

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  5. Re:Theory as it stands is wrong by myowntrueself · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope; because of metric expansion, objects whose light we are now receiving can be further away than the product of the speed of light and the age of the universe.

    So in the US they have imperial expansion? Of course, that explains a lot!

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