THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE (LESSON 1)

Question 1

RELIGION OR DIVINE CREATION THEORY

Answer 1

• GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE
• DAY 1 LIGHT AND DARK
  DAY 2 SKY, LAND AND SEA
  DAY 3 PLANTS AND TREES
  DAY 4 SUN FOR DAY, MOON FOR NIGHT
  DAY 5 CREATURES FOR SKY AND SEAS
  DAY 6 CREATURES ON LAND INCLUDING ADAM AND
  EVE ( THE FIRST HUMANS)
  DAY 7 REST DAY

Question 2

PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE

Answer 2

• ANAXAGORAS (GREEK PHILOSOPHER)
• EVERYTHING IS IN EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IS IN A
  MIXTURE OF EVERYTHING.

Question 3

PHILOSOPHERS

Answer 3

PERSON WHO STUDIES IDEAS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH, THE NATURE AND MEANING OF LIFE.

Question 4

ATOMIC UNIVERSE

Answer 4

• LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS (GREEK PHILOSOPHERS)
• ALL OBJECTS IN THE UNIVERSE ARE COMPOSED OF VERY SMALL, INDIVISIBLE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE ATOMS.

Question 5

GIANT LIVING BODY UNIVERSE

Answer 5

• GREEK STOIC PHILOSOPHERS
• UNIVERSE IS INFINITE

Question 6

STOIC PERSON

Answer 6

PERSON WHO ACCEPT WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT SHOWING EMOTIONS

Question 7

STATIC, INFINITE UNIVERSE

Answer 7

• RENE DESCARTES (FRENCH PHILOSOPHER)
• THE UNIVERSE IS IN A FIXED POSITION
• SPACE WAS NOT AN EMPTY BUT FILLED WITH MATTER (GRAVITY EFFECTS) THAT SWIRLED AROUND IN LARGE AND SMALL VORTICES.

Question 8

STATIC, STEADY - STATE INFINITE UNIVERSE

Answer 8

• SIR ISAAC NEWTON
  -IF IT EXPANDS, IT DOESN’T MOVE (ADDS MORE MATTER)

Question 9

STATIC, DYNAMICALLY STABLE UNIVERSE

Answer 9

• ALBERT EINSTEIN
• BASED FROM HIS THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• NEITHER EXPANDING NOR CONTRACTING
  -ADDED A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT THAT COUNTERACT THE GRAVITY WOULD HAVE CAUSED THE UNIVERSE TO COLLAPSE

Question 10

CONTINIUOSLY EXPANDING UNIVERSE

Answer 10

• EDWIN HUBBLE
• MOVING AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER
• REDSHIFTED/ COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION

Question 11

WHO DISCOVERED COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND

Answer 11

ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON

Question 12

BIG BANG THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE

Answer 12

• FR. GEORGE HENRI JOSPEH EDOUARD LEMAITRE

Question 13

EXPLAIN THE BIG BANG THEORY

Answer 13

IT FIRST STARTED AS HOT AND INFINITELY DENSE POINT. THEN IT EXPLODED WHICH IS WHY IT WAS CALLED THE BIG BANG THEORY BUT IT WAS LATER DISCOVERED THAT IT DID NOT EXPLODE BUT IT EXPANDED. AFTER THE EXPANSION SPACE, TIME, ENERGY, MATTER WAS CREATED. AND THE BIG BANG THEORY ALSO HAD TWO ERAS. RADIATION ERA AND MATTER ERA. DURING RADIATION ERA WE HAVE AN EPOCHS WHERE ENERGY, FORCE AND SOME ATOMIC PARTICLES WERE FOUND AND IN MATTER ERA (EPOCHS) IT WAS GALACTIC, ATOMIC AND STELLAR.

Question 14

ENUMERATE AND DEFINE THE PARTS OF THE SUN

Answer 14

1. CORE
2. RADIATIVE ZONE - IT IS WHERE RADIATION OCCURS
3. CONVECTIVE ZONE - IT IS WHERE CONVECTION OCCURS
4. PHOTOSPHERE - IT PRODUCES LIGHTWAVES
5. CHROMOSPHERE - SURFACE OF THE SUN
6. CORONA ( 2MILLION KELVIN ) - BLAZING CROWN OF THE SUN.
7. SUNSPOT
8. GRANULES
9. SOLAR FLARE

Question 15

LIFE CYCLE OF A STAR

Answer 15

STELLAR NEBULA -> AVERAGE STAR -> RED GIANT -> PLANETARY NEBULA -> WHITE DWARF

STELLAR NEBULA -> MASSIVE STAR -> RED SUPERGIANT-> SUPERNOVA -> NEUTRON STAR
I—->BLACK HOLE

Question 16

GALAXY

Answer 16

COLLECTION/ GROUP OF SYSTEM

Question 17

TYPES OF GALAXY

Answer 17

• BARRED SPIRAL
  -PECULIAR
• IRREGULAR
  -ELLIPTICAL
  -SPIRAL
  -LENTICULAR

Question 18

CONSTELLATION

Answer 18

GROUP OF STARS/ FORMATION OF STARS

Question 19

12 ZODIAC SIGNS

Answer 19

• USED IN ASTROLOGY
  -CANCER, GEMINI, PISCES, SCORPIO, LEO, LIBRA, VIRGO, TAURUS, ARIES, CAPRICORN, AQUARIUS, SAGITTARIUS