Estimate the temperature of the universe when it was approximately 1 minutes old

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Estimate the temperature of the universe when it was approximately 1 minutes
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Concept and Principle:
  • Our universe is thought to be formed from a singularity of infinite density and temperature. It happened around 13.75 billion years ago. This singularity expanded to form the known universe and is called the Big bang.

 

  • The initial expansion was very fast but then slowed down rapidly. The temperature of the early universe is given by,

T=(1.5×1010 s12K)t

Here t is the time in seconds.

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