big bang model

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It was 1963, and during an astronomy conference Hoyle fell into a conversation with Robert Dicke, a physicist who was planning to search for the cosmic microwaves predicted by the big bang model.

From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2020

This means that the initial state of the universe must have been very carefully chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning of time.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

In the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

As they expanded, the energy of the field in them would slowly decrease until the inflationary expansion changed to an expansion like that in the hot big bang model.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking