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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.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• Hadron eraNarrower topic: The hadron era was one stage in the universe’s early expansion and cooling.