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What evidence does the Red Shift give to the Big Bang Theory?
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The Big Bang Theory implies that everything in our current Universe was contained as energy in a "Primordial Seed." that was smaller then an atom. Where this "seed" came from is not in the realm of science, as anyone can appreciate, and no one has been able to answer this without incurring the religious concept of a Omnipotent God. This incredibly small "seed" ruptured about 13.7 billion years ago. (Determined from WMAP microwave background radiation satellite) From it sprung forth the Universe which has evolved during that time into what we see today. Remember that mass is "frozen energy." So that we are not imagining that all this solid mass we see today was all squished into this little particle. Then imagine if it was the ultimate explosion, and everything shot out in all directions, what would we see today, so many billions of years later. Well we would see everything that is anything in the Universe speeding away from just about everything else. Knowing this, Edmund Hubble an astronomer in the 1920's discovered a unique property of the spectra of Galaxies he photographed over the course of years with the 100 inch Mt Palomar Telescope which was the most powerful telescope of its time.
Spectra of the light from stars and even galaxies can reveal an incredible amount of information about its composition, and in our case it speed and direction. The light coming into the telescope reveals that there are spectral lines that normally would be located in predetermined places for the components that compose the galaxy or star being measured. Hubble found that these spectral lines were displaced in one direction or another. One end of the spectra is the red end or long wave length. While the other end of the spectra is the shorter wave length or blue end. His genius was to realize that if light travels through space toward you it is traveling in such a way as to compress the light waves making them shorter or bluer. If light is traveling through space away from you the light waves are stretched making them longer or redder. This is the famed redshift. When seen from earth almost 99% of every galaxy with measured spectra has a red shift which indicates everything is rushing away from us. Which is a very good proof that a long long time ago (13.7 billion years) everything started from the same point, and is now rushing away from that point.
How fast something is traveling away from us determines how far the spectral lines are displace away from their usual placement. Some of the most distant galaxies are speeding away from us at close to the speed of light. This is not that these galaxies are traveling through space at that speed. If that were the situation these galaxies would be subject to the Einsteinian limits of travel through space. Therefore, it is that the space they are contained in that is expanding at that rate.
Space can expand faster then the speed of light. It is thought it happened in the initial expansion of the "primordial seed" that expanded during the Big Bang. The energy released was sufficient to expand that small seed from the size of an atom to the size of a Basketball in an infinitely small portion of a second which is many times faster then the speed of light, this is known as inflation and is a critical part of the current Big Bang Theory to make it work.
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