Lesson 1.1 Theories on the Origin of the Universe Flashcards
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This book obtained from the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament describes how God separated light from darkness and how He created the sky, land, sea, moon, stars and every living creature in a span of 6 days
Genesis
RIGVEDA describes the universe as an oscillating universe in which this COSMIC EGG expands out of a single concentrated point called Bindu and will eventually collapse again
BRAHMANDA
Anaxagoras believed in a primordial universe and explained that the original state of the cosmos was THIS
PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE
Who are the Greek philosophers who believed in an atomic universe
Leucippus
Democritus
In this model of universe, it was believed that universe was composed of very small, indivisible and indestructible ATOMS
Atomic Universe
Leucippus and Democritus are the Greek philosophers who believed in this model of universe wherein it was believed that universe was composed of very small, indivisible and indestructible atoms
Atomic Universe
Who are these Greek philosophers who believed that Earth stayed motionless in the heavens and everything is revolving around the Earth, basically “Earth was the Center of the universe”?
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Who was this Polish astronomer and mathematician who opposed another theory on the origin of universe that puts the Sun in Center of the solar system?
Nicolaus Copernicus
This theory demonstrates that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth in the Center of the universe
Theory of Heliocentrism
He described the universe as a static, steady-state, infinite universe
Sir Isaac Newton
He outlined the vortex model of the universe which states that the vacuum of space was not empty but was filled with matter that swirled around in large and small vortices producing the gravitational effects
René Descartes
He suggested that even the solar system is not in the Center of the universe
Giordano Bruno
He said that the universe was a static, dynamically-stable universe that was neither expanding nor contracting
Albert Einstein
In 1929,he showed that the universe was not static
Edward Hubble
What are the five existing modern theories on the origin of the universe?
Big Bang Theory Oscillating Universe Steady State Theory Inflationary Universe Multiverse
What is the current accepted model on the formation of the universe?
Big Bang Theory
Who is the Belgian Roman Catholic priest in which the Big Bang Theory is attributed to?
Edouard Lemaitre (Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre)
It described the universe as expanding and originated in an infinitely tiny and dense point around 14 billion years ago
Big Bang Theory
According to the Big Bang Theory, matter was not present at the beginning of time. Instead, there was only pure energy compressed in a single point. What was that single point?
singularity
What are the four fundamental interaction or forces according to the Big Bang Theory?
gravity, electromagnetic forces, strong and weak nuclear force
This Modern Theory on the Origin of the Universe follows the general theory of relativity equations of the universe with positive curvature.
Oscillating Universe
This modern theory on the Origin of the Universe predicted a universe that expanded but did not change in its density.
Steady State Theory
Who proposed the Steady State Theory?
Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, Hermann Bondi
This modern theory on the Origin of the Universe is based on the Big Bang Theory which proposes a short early period of exponential cosmic inflation
Inflationary Universe
