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Evidence That Universe Was Twice as Hot 7 Billion Years Ago

2025-11-09 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
Anton Petrov
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Confirming the Early Universe Temperature with Recent Astrophysical Measurements

Discover how recent, highly precise measurements using distant quasars confirm key predictions of the Big Bang theory by accurately measuring the universe's temperature billions of years ago.

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  • Pinpoint the temperature of the universe 7 billion years ago, confirming it was roughly double today's background temperature.
  • Establish that measuring molecular excitation in gas clouds absorbing quasar light acts as a cosmic thermometer.
  • Reinforce the standard cosmological model, challenging alternative theories like the steady-state model based on new data precision. This presentation explores the methodology for determining the ancient temperature of space, focusing on a recent study that achieved record precision. Understanding this thermal history validates the expansion and cooling inherent in the Big Bang model, providing crucial constraints needed to study phenomena like dark energy.

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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new measurements that prove the universe was hotter back in the days Links: https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/press-releases/files/2025/10/30/251030-1.pdf https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/cosmic-water-cloud-reveals-temperature-early-universe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63216-5 Previous videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Y2DOCWyyhdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBO9cjIbwPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbjNIv0gmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21-268I43W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ncjebD_Bpc #universe #bigbang #cosmicmicrowavebackground 0:00 Temperature of the universe in the past 1:00 Temperature today compared to before 2:05 How to prove this? CMB - cosmic microwave background 3:30 Predictions of what we should see 4:30 Using quasars to measure this 6:50 Previous attempts to measure this 7:15 New precise measurements and what this means 9:10 Previous studies from even farther away 10:30 Implications and why this matters 12:10 Conclusions and what's next? Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: IRAM/MPIA/ESA/Planck Collaboration/Dominik Riechers/Martina Markus/Universität Zu Köln P. Noterdaeme et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011 Onsala Space Observatory/R. Cumming/S. Muller Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@14Penfold88 2025-11-09

We were all hotter and smaller when we were younger.

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@johnburnside7828 2025-11-09

We were all a lot hotter when we were a lot younger! (I say this as a 74-year-old.)

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@nonotorious1467 2025-11-09

At some point everywhere was room temperature.

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@George-rk7ts 2025-11-09

Your explanations are wonderfully. And you never sacrifice the science to make things easy but wrong. Marvelous job, wonderful person.

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@yomogami4561 2025-11-09

'cool' update anton thanks it will be interesting to see what the future observations bring to light

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@chris_ose_27 2025-11-09

“That’s Hot.” — The Great Paris Hilton

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@willivonen3886 2025-11-09

That was perfect.❤

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@EnthDGree 2025-11-09

Hello, wonderful person! Здравей, прекрасен човек!

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@Dank_Engine 2025-11-10

Legitimate best use case for Galaxy Gas

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@andycordy5190 2025-11-10

This looks to me like finding ways to make the univers fit to theory.

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