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How the discovery of CMBR proved the Big Bang Theory
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First Light - Revealing the Early Universe Through Cosmic Microwave Background
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why we only see the cosmos in the past
- 3 Why JWST is an infrared telescope
- 4 Vesto Slipher's discovery that distant galaxies are redshifted
- 5 How Hubble's redshift work led to him discovering Hubble's law
- 6 How the Big Bang Theory developed
- 7 Project Echo
- 8 Telstar
- 9 Penzias and Wilson's discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation CMBR
- 10 Why does the universe have CMBR?
- 11 How the discovery of CMBR proved the Big Bang Theory
- 12 Why we can't explain the current expansion rate of the universe the Hubble tension
- 13 How new observations in Chile may solve this problem
- 14 Conclusion
- 15 Q&A Session
