The First Three Minutes of the Universe

The story of the universe in its infancy is actually well-known from Classical Physics. Here we mean by Classical, anything that doesn't rely on anything that hasn't been tested in a lab on Earth. We follow the classic book by the same name on a journey back to when the universe was 180 seconds old. We find that there is nuclear fusion in all the cosmos, that it’s so hot nuclei cannot combine, that neutrons and protons are in balance with nuclear reactions. We find that, even more convincing than the cosmic microwave background, the ratio of hydrogen to helium that was fixed in these early moments is greater proof of the Big Bang. This ratio is seen in the most ancient stars, who still carry the original composition of the birth of the universe. We see this wherever we look. It takes will and guts to throw away old religious myths and adopt the reality of creation as it is truly understood.

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29: The Big Bang

The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Weinberg:
http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Three...
Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction: by Coles: http://www.amazon.com/Cosmology-A-Ver...

0:00 Introduction
2:12 The Hot Big Bang
2:29 Where Did all the Helium come from?
3:46 The Universe contains different kinds of particles.
5:09 What is matter made of?
13:23 The Big Bang's Hot Past
16:30 The Universe Was The Center of a Star
17:59 Deuterium is a key Observation for the Big Bang
19:45 Binding, Loosing and Melting Binding Energy is the energy needed to unbind break up matter We can define a binding temperature equivalent to the binding
21:49 Quark Soup: Stir for one Microsecond
31:01 The Beginning....
31:15 Primordial Nucleosynthesis
31:59 Primordial Deuterium Formation
32:37 Primordial Helium Formation
33:50 Post-Fusion Universe...
36:00 Epoch of (Re)combination
36:47 Cosmic Background Radiation
48:49 The Evidence which indicates the Big Bang
51:30 REVIEW OUESTIONS