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  2. Expansion of the universe - Wikipedia

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    Swenson, Jim, Answer to a question about the expanding universe Archived 11 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine; Felder, Gary, "The Expanding universe". NASA's WMAP team offers an "Explanation of the universal expansion" at an elementary level. Hubble Tutorial from the University of Wisconsin Physics Department Archived 9 June 2014 at the ...

  3. Expanding Earth - Wikipedia

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    The expanding Earth or growing Earth was a hypothesis attempting to explain the position and relative movement of continents by increase in the volume of Earth. With the recognition of plate tectonics in 20th century, the idea has been abandoned.

  4. Big Bang - Wikipedia

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    The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. [1] The concept of an expanding universe was scientifically originated by physicist Alexander Friedmann in 1922 with the mathematical derivation of the Friedmann equations.

  5. Webb telescope confirms the universe is expanding at an ...

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    Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8% - than ...

  6. History of the Big Bang theory - Wikipedia

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    According to the Big Bang model, the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like spots on an inflating balloon. The graphic scheme above is an artist's concept illustrating the expansion of a portion of a flat ...

  7. Accelerating expansion of the universe - Wikipedia

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    Thus, an accelerating universe took a longer time to expand from 2/3 to 1 times its present size, compared to a non-accelerating universe with constant ˙ and the same present-day value of the Hubble constant. This results in a larger light-travel time, larger distance and fainter supernovae, which corresponds to the actual observations.

  8. Hubble's law - Wikipedia

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    The mathematical derivation of an idealized Hubble's law for a uniformly expanding universe is a fairly elementary theorem of geometry in 3-dimensional Cartesian/Newtonian coordinate space, which, considered as a metric space, is entirely homogeneous and isotropic (properties do not vary with location or direction). Simply stated, the theorem ...

  9. Big Crunch - Wikipedia

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    The Big Crunch is a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the expansion of the universe eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately causing the cosmic scale factor to reach absolute zero, an event potentially followed by a reformation of the universe starting with another Big Bang.