THE BEGINNING OF TIME
There was a period in history when the beginning of the world in which we
live in was a expressed through legends and myths, now, through the use of
increasingly advanced scientific equipment we can see that the universe is more
vast and complex than ever imaginable. The purpose of this paper is to bring
light to some of the modern beliefs regarding the origin of the universe by
answering a series of questions. What are the commonly excepted theories of
the evolution of the universe? What is meant by the 'Big Bang Theory' and how
does it work? And how our planet and solar system developed from The Big
Bang? This paper will use scientific data to base the evolution of our universe
around The Big Bang.
At the present time there are two theories which are used to explain the
creation of the universe.
WMAP image of the (extremely tiny) anisotropies in...
List of The Big Bang Theory episodes (season 2)
List of The Big Bang Theory episodes (season 1)The first theory is the infamous Big Bang Theory,
which will be detailed later. The second is the Steady State Theory.
(Weinberg, 1977)
The later hypothesis was created to replace the common belief that the
universe was completely static. The expansion of the universe was discovered
in 1929 when Edwin Hubble discovered that every galaxy in the universe was
moving away from each other, this meant that the universe was expanding.
Hubble found the movement of the galaxies by using a phenomenon known as
the Doppler effect. This effect caused bodies moving away from an observer to
have a 'red-shifted' spectrum (the light spectrum of the body had been shifted
closer to red) and bodies moving towards an observer to be 'blue-shifted'
(Hawking, 1988)
The expansion was traced backwards through time to discover that all the
galaxies had originated from the same point. It was later...