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One of the Hebrew Bible and Christian old testament

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Narrative from Genesis

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  • Describe the universe as oscillating universe

- Single concentrated point called “_____”?

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Hindu text Rigveda

“ Bindu “

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  • Believed that universe is primordial universe

- Was set in motion by the action ____ or ____?

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Anaxagoras

nous or mind

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This philosophers believed that the universe is a atomic universe

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Greek Philosopher Lueccipus and Democritus

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This philosophers believed that the universe is a giant living body

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Stoic Philosophers

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It sifted and separated the ingridients

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Whirling Motion

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Proposed the “ GEOCENTRIC THEORY” and would later contradict the viewpoint of the other philosophers of the universe

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Aristotle and Ptolemy

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The “theory of heliocentrism”

the motions of celestial objects

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Atronomer Nicolaus Copernicus 1543

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suggested that the solar system is not even in the center of the universe.
- 1548

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Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno

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Believed that the universe is steady state

  • gravitationally balance but essentially unstable
  • 1687
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Isaac Newton

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outlined a cartesian vortex model of the universe with many characteristics of newton’s static
- system of huge swirling whirlpools of fine matter called?

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French Philosopher Rene Descartes

Gravitational effects

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it was no different from newton’s that it was a static and dynamically stable universe

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Albert Einstein

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what albert einstein added to his general theory of relativity equations to counteract the dynamic

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Cosmological constant

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astronomer showed that the universe was not static

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American Astronomer Edwin Hubble

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were synthesis of the past observation, theories, and laws, as well as understanding of mass, energy and relativity

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modern theories on the origin of the universe

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Describes the universe as expanding, infinitely tiny, infinitely dense point around 14 Billion years ago ( gigaanum ago or Ga)

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Bigbang theory

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only pure energy compressed in a single point

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Singularity

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An expansion which cause the inflation of the universe

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  • Bigbang
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GIVE THE FOUR FUNDEMENTAL FORCES

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  • GRAVITY ( attraction between bodies)
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC ( binds atoms into molecules)
  • STRONG NUCLUER FORCE ( binds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus)
  • WEAK NUCLUER FORCE ( brakes down an atom’s nucleus and produce radioactive decay)
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what theory does nicolaus copernicus proposed?

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theory of heliocentrism

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the fundemental statement of the bigbang theory is attributed to?

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Belgian Roman Catholic priest george lemaitre

-1927

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discovery of the cosmic background radiation by?

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Arno penzias and Robert Wilson

1965

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Albert Einstein favored model after rejecting his own theory

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Oscillating universe

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Proposed by astronomers fred hoyle , thomas Gold, Herman Bondi

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Steady State Theory

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Proposed by astronomers fred hoyle , thomas Gold, Herman Bondi

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Steady State Theory

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he INCORPORATED a short early period off expenential cosmic inflation
such horizon and flatness this became known as?

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American physicist Alan Guth

Inflationary Universe

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another variation of the inflationary model was the?

develop by paul steinhardt and neil turok

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cyclic model

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He DEVELOPED the CONCEPT OF INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE

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Russian American physcist Andrei Linde

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This _____ was able to explain why all planets revolve in the same direction and why the INNER PLANETS ARE DENSER than the OUTER ONES

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Encounter Hypothesis

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what were formed when the gravitational interaction of the two stars?

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Hot gases

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States that the ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM starred as a LARGE CLOUD OF GAS that contracted due to self gravity

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Nebular hypothesis

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The PRESENT WORKING MODEL ON THE FORMATION of the solar system is called?

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Protoplanet hypothesis

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base on this hypothesis the solar system began with a fragment from an interseller cloud mainly HYDROGEN, HELIUM and TRACE AMOUNT OF THE LIGHT ELEMENTS. what is this hypothesis?

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Protoplanets Hypothesis

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Larger asteroid size aggregates called____ WERE FORMED.

WHICH ORBITED IN THE CENTER OF THE SOLAR NEBULA

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PLANETESIMALS

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THE____ differed in the chemical composition

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PLANETESIMALS

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FORMED in the outer disk which remained relatively cooler

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GAS GIANTS

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this theory sees BUBBLES

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