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Article: Big Bang Theory
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Big Bang theory
Big bang theory describes the origin of the knowable universe and the development of the laws of
physics
and
chemistry
some 15 billion years ago.
During the 1940s Russian-born American cosmologist and nuclear physicist George Gamow (1904
–
1968) developed the modern version of the big bang model based upon earlier concepts advanced by Russian physicist Alexander (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich) Friedmann (also spelled as Fridman, 1888
–
1925) and Belgian astrophysicist and cosmologist Abb
é
Georges Lema
î
tre (1894
–
1966). Big bang based models replaced static models of the universe that described a homogeneous universe that was the same in all ...
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