THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE Flashcards
DESCRIBES THE UNIVERSE AS AN OSCILLATING UNIVERSE
RIGVEDA
BRAHMANDA
COSMIC EGG
SINGLE CONCENTRATED POINT
BINDU
GREEK PHILOSOPHER WHO BELIEVED IN A PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE
ANAXAGORAS
THE ORIGINAS STATE OF THE COSMOS WAS A PRIMORDIAL MISTURE OF ALL ITS INGREDIENTS
PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE
TWO GREEK PHILOSOPHERS WHO BELIEVED IN AN ATOMIC UNIVERSE
LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS
VERY SMALL INDIVISIBLE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE ATOMS
ATOMIC UNIVERSE
PRINCIPIA OF ISAAC NEWTON
STEADY STATE INFINITE UNIVERSE
PROPOSED A MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE BASED ON THE BIGBANG THEORY
ALAN GUTH
PROCESS OF EXPANSION AND EXPLOSION HYDROGEN GAS
THE BIG BANG THEORY
is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature.
THE BIG BANG THEORY
According to this theory, the early Universe expanded exponentially fast for a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE THEORY
They both developed and popularized the “many worlds” multiverse in 1960’s and 1970’s
HUGH EVERETT AND BRYCE DEWITT
Albert Einstein’s favored model after rejecting his original model
OSCILLATING UNIVERSE