Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory

In cosmology, the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory (or αβγ theory) was created by Ralph Alpher, at the time a physics PhD student, and his advisor George Gamow. Their work, which would become the subject of Alpher's PhD thesis, argued that the big bang would be expected to create hydrogen, helium and heavier elements in the correct proportions to explain their abundance in the early universe. While the original theory neglected a number of processes important to the formation of heavy elements, subsequent developments showed that big bang nucleosynthesis is consistent with the observed constraints on all primordial elements.

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Cosmology - Ralph Alpher - Physics - PhD - George Gamow - Big bang - Hydrogen - Helium - Universe - Big bang nucleosynthesis

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