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What is an expanding Universe?

• Galaxies move apart because space itself is expanding.

• They are not moving apart because of some past explosion.

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Expansion of the Universe

Galaxies move apart as the Universe expands.


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The beginning of the Universe
• Big Bang theory doesn't attempt to explain why the Universe
was created, or what (if anything) might have existed before it.

• Our ideas about the very early Universe are, at best,


speculative.

• The first 10-43 seconds of the Universe is called the Planck


era. Conditions were so extreme that we suspect quantum
behaviour was dominant, including quantum gravity.

• We don't yet have a theory of quantum gravity, but we do


have theories that explain what happened from this time on.

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Fundamental interactions
• All forces in the Universe can be attributed to four
fundamental interactions between particles.

• Physicists believe that all known interactions were unified at


the moment of the Big Bang.

• Shortly after the Big Bang, this unified interaction began to


separate into gravitational, strong, weak and electromagnetic
interactions.

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Fundamental interactions
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• 10-43 seconds after the Big Bang, gravity separated
from the unified interaction.

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