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1948
 Theoretical physicists, taking into account the rate of expansion of the universe, predicted that 15 billion years after the Big Bang the universe should have cooled off to a temperature just 3 degrees above absolute zero. George Gamow and Ralph Alpher predicted that radiation from the very hot early stages of the universe should still be around today. It was this radiation that Penzias and Wilson found in 1965. George Gamow first described the Big Bang.
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1999
 Brian Greene published "The Elegant Universe." It is an explanation of the universe using string theory.
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2005 Apr 1
 It was reported that scientific evidence from Brookhaven National Laboratory indicated the creation of a quark-gluon plasma, a form of matter that last existed moments after the big bang.
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