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The 55 pages that link to Big Bang, each with the reason it gives.

• Cosmic microwave backgroundNarrower topic: The background is leftover radiation from the Big Bang’s hot early stages.

• Big Bang nucleosynthesisNarrower topic: Nucleosynthesis was a brief stage in the universe's evolution after the Big Bang.

• Cosmic inflationNarrower topic: Inflation is proposed as an early episode within the universe's broader expansion history.

• Edwin HubbleRelated: The expansion measured by Hubble became part of the evidence for an evolving universe.

• AbiogenesisCompared with: It concerns cosmic origins, a different question from the chemical origin of life on Earth.

• Quark–gluon plasmaNarrower topic: The universe passed through a quark–gluon plasma phase shortly after its beginning.

• Fred HoyleCompared with: Hoyle coined its name while criticizing the model, though the term outlasted his opposition.

• Georges LemaîtreBroader topic: Lemaître’s primeval-atom proposal was an early ancestor of modern Big Bang cosmology.

• Steady-state theoryCompared with: Steady-state cosmology arose partly as an alternative to an evolving universe with a beginning.

• CosmogonyBroader topic: The leading scientific model of cosmic development from an early hot, dense universe.

• Cosmological argumentRelated: Its account of cosmic history is often invoked in arguments about whether the universe began.

• History of astronomyBroader topic: Its evidence illustrates how modern astronomy reconstructs the universe's history from observations.

• Alexander FriedmannNarrower topic: Friedmann’s expanding solutions became mathematical foundations for modern Big Bang cosmology.

• Creation ex nihiloCompared with: A cosmological beginning does not by itself establish creation from nothing or identify a creator.

• Hindu cosmologyCompared with: It is a modern scientific account, unlike cosmologies grounded in sacred texts and cycles.

• Age of the universeNarrower topic: The age measures time since this early expansion began.

• Arrow of timeRelated: The early universe's unusually low gravitational entropy is central to explaining time's large-scale direction.

• Baryonic matterNarrower topic: Its observations constrain the total amount of baryonic matter.

• Primordial nucleosynthesisNarrower topic: Primordial nucleosynthesis was an early stage in the universe’s evolution after the Big Bang.

• Sakharov conditionsNarrower topic: The conditions apply to processes in the universe's early hot history.

• Planck epochNarrower topic: The Planck epoch is the earliest interval in the Big Bang account of cosmic history.

• Ralph AlpherNarrower topic: Alpher’s calculations describe physical processes within this broader cosmic history.

• Geoffrey BurbidgeCompared with: Its growing evidential support conflicted with Burbidge’s preference for eternal cosmologies.

• Horizon problemNarrower topic: Its standard non-inflationary version contains the causal-contact puzzle.

• Robert HermanNarrower topic: Herman’s temperature estimate was a specific prediction of the hot early-universe picture.

• Electroweak epochNarrower topic: The electroweak epoch is one stage in the universe's early expansion history.

• Flatness problemCompared with: Without an added mechanism such as inflation, its standard expansion leaves the flatness puzzle.

• Martin RyleCompared with: Ryle interpreted evolving source counts as evidence against the steady-state alternative.

• Big BounceCompared with: The Big Bounce replaces an absolute beginning with a preceding contracting phase.

• Cyclic modelCompared with: A standard Big Bang history need not include a preceding contraction or future recurrence.

• Outer spaceRelated: It is the leading cosmological account of the universe's early evolution.

• Quark epochNarrower topic: The quark epoch was a brief stage in the early expansion.

• Static universeCompared with: Its expanding history replaces the eternal unchanging cosmos of static models.

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• George SmootNarrower topic: The background radiation and its anisotropies became evidence for this model’s account of cosmic history.

• Gravitational singularityBroader topic: Classical cosmological models trace past-directed paths toward a singular boundary associated with the Big Bang.

• Universe (cosmology)Related: It describes the universe’s earliest well-supported history, not an explosion into preexisting space.

• Big HistoryBroader topic: This threshold begins the cosmic timeline Big History traces.

• Lepton epochNarrower topic: The lepton epoch was a brief stage in the universe’s early expansion.

• Penrose–Hawking singularity theoremsRelated: Cosmological incompleteness results support a boundary to classical descriptions of the universe’s past.

• Physical cosmologyBroader topic: It names the universe’s early expansion, not an explosion into pre-existing space.

• Robert Woodrow WilsonNarrower topic: The background radiation provided strong evidence for the hot early universe described by this model.

• Space scienceRelated: Cosmic observations support this account of the universe's large-scale history.

• Chronology of the universeBroader topic: It marks the beginning of the timeline’s well-supported physical account.

• History of general relativityRelated: Relativistic cosmological solutions became the framework for describing the universe’s expansion.

• History of physicsBroader topic: It shows how modern physics extended historical inquiry to the universe's evolution.

• Photon epochNarrower topic: The photon epoch is one stage within this larger evolutionary history.

• Arno Allan PenziasNarrower topic: The background radiation supplied strong evidence for the hot early-universe model.

• Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiationNarrower topic: The background signal provided powerful observational support for this broader model.

• Grand unification epochNarrower topic: The grand unification epoch is an early stage in this broader cosmic history.