Question 1 • WV-Earth and Space Science A-CR
The Big Bang model describes the early universe as extremely hot and dense, and the early universe was opaque because light could not travel freely through it. It also proposes that the universe expanded from an initially very compact state, often described in introductory accounts as a single point. The Big Bang was not an explosion into empty space, and the universe was not only one second old overall.
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