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I guess they'd do it by looking at when the term "big bang" started showing up in papers. Or, maybe by looking at TV Guide.
(Hint: I don't think "theory" means what you think it means.)
I'll answer the question you were probably trying to ask also:
A variety of ways that are probably too complicated to explain in detail here, but involve looking at redshifts of distant galaxies and the cosmic microwave background.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoBy extrapolating the expansion of the Universe into the past.
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What do scientists think started the universe?
The big bang or a wormhole
What do scientists call the event that started the universe?
The Big Bang Theory
What does scientists hypothesize regarding the sun and the planet?
The big bang theory
What sentence can you make using the word Big bang theory?
The Big Bang Theory is widely considered by scientists and theologians as the way in which the universe started. Even the Pope accepts it.
What space technologies provided scientists with the best evidence that the universe was created in the Big Bang?
a radio telescope
When do scientists think the Big Bang theory happened?
The Big Bang theory was proposed (happened) in the middle of the 20th Century.The theory, and the work exploring it, suggest that the Big Bang happened about 13.7 billion years ago.
What do scientists think have happened to most ancient species?
The big bang
What do most scientists believe existed before the incident known as big bang?
Most scientists believe that an infinite dense singularity existed before the incident known as the Big Bang.
When do scientists believe the big bang took place?
the scientists believe the big bang took place is northeast
What were the affects after the big bang?
Everything that ever happened - or at least, everything we know of - happened after the Big Bang, and was, in a way, affected by the Big Bang.
What effects were there after the big bang?
Everything we know of happened after the Big Bang.
Scientists extrapolate backwards in time to derive?
the big bang theory
When the big bang happened were humans alive?
No. The big bang was before the dinos.
Are stars and planets formed after the Big Bang?
Everything happened after the big bang.
When did Big Bang Beat happen?
Big Bang Beat happened in 2007.
When did Big Bang Mini happen?
Big Bang Mini happened in 2009.
What is a result of the big bang?
The big bang began the expansion of spacetime with great rapidity. The Universe began with the Big Bang. In other words both space and time began at the big bang. The big bang started the Universe from the point t=0.
