The Evolution of the Universe

There's this big debate, of course, in the mid 20th century. Do we have a Big Bang cosmology or is it this this eternal model called the steady state model? And so for me, like, I'm a nerd, I knew about like a lot of this stuff, but I hadn't sort of worked out how all the pieces fit together. But now you're back to one of these vibes plus data situations where you have its alpha and gamma and beta gets slipped in for a joke. The cosmic microwave background has certain qualities that are exactly what you'd predict under a big bang model.