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CHAPTER 22 GENESIS CREATION STORY AND RECENT COSMOLOGICAL FINDINGS—…
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most acceptable current mainstream estimates for all sample points, including the
two hard-to-estimate points.

22.3.2 Light

Cosmologic value (Y1)
At the time of the big bang, the universe was so hot that no atoms could be cre-
ated, and therefore no light, as we know it today, was visible. Only when the
universe cooled down to such a degree that atoms could have formed did light
become tangible. As described elsewhere in the book (section 14.2), according to

modern cosmologies, at the time of the big bang, the universe was a soup of radia-
tion and particles—or, in the words of Singh (2004), “The universe contained

mainly protons, neutrons and electrons, all bathed in a sea of light.” The universe
was so hot that possibly forming atoms were continually ripped apart by radiation
as soon as they were formed. Therefore, the universe was opaque, and “any light
beam moving in this super-hot universe would be absorbed after traveling a short
distance, so the universe looked cloudy.” (Kaku , 2005, 58). Shortly after the big

bang, the universe had undergone an era of quick inflation , when the universe
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expanded by perhaps a factor of 10 or more. With infl ation and ever since, the
universe has been cooling down. “After 380,000 years, however, the temperature
dropped to 3000 degrees. Below that temperature, atoms were no longer ripped
apart by collision. As a result stable atoms could form, and light beams could now
travel for light years without being absorbed.” (Kaku, 2005, 58). A similar descrip-
tion is given by Greene (2004): “Electrically charged particles, like electrons and
protons, which disrupt the motion of light beams, combined to form electrically
neutral atoms, which then allowed light to travel freely. Ever since, such ancient
light—produced in the early stages of the universe—has traveled unimpeded, and
today suffuses all of space with microwave photons.” (Greene , 2004, 515).
Light, as it is known to us today, was “created” as a result of the creation of the
first hydrogen and helium atoms, about 380,000 years after the big bang, in an

event called recombination. This event produced what is now known as the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) radiation that spread all over the universe.
In terms of the cosmologic time-scale, and expressed by its unit, we have for
the first data point:

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Y 1 = 380,000(10 ) = 0.00038 Gyr