Theory Flashcards
the Hindu ancient text “Rigveda” described the universe as a cosmic egg or Brahmanda. All space expands out of a single concentrated point called Bindu.
CYCLICAL or OSCILLATING UNIVERSE
by the Greek Philosopher Anaxagoras, the original state of the cosmos was a _______ mixture of all its ingredients, which existed in infinitesimally small fragments of themselves.
PRIMODIAL UNIVERSE
Greek Philosophers Leucippus and Democritus, universe is composed of very small, indivisible, and indestructible building blocks known as atoms.
ATOMIC UNIVERSE
Earth is at the center of the universe, four classical elements, fire, air, earth, and water. With two forces gravity, earth and water to sink and levity, air and fire to rise.
ARISTOTELIAN UNIVERSE
universe is like a giant living body, with its leading part being the stars and the sun in which all parts are interconnected
STOIC UNIVERSE
by Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos, sun as the center of the universe. Supported by Seleucus of Selucia.
) HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
Roman mathematician and astronomer Claudius P, describe a geocentric model of the universe, which the planets and the rest of the universe orbit a stationary earth in circular epicycles.
PTOLEMAIC UNIVERSE
Christian Philosopher, John Philoponus of Alexandria, universe was finite in time and therefore had a beginning.
ABRAHAMIC UNIVERSE
by Somayaji Nilakantha, southern India, developed a computational system in which planets MVMJS, orbited the sun, which in turn orbited the Earth.
PARTIALLY HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
by Polish astronomer, Nicolaus C, heliocentric model, narrow band of fixed stars.
COPERNICAN UNIVERSE
the universe is static, dynamically stable, neither expanding nor contracting.
EINSTEINIAN UNIVERSE
by Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, universe is expanding.
BIG BANG UNIVERSE (1929):
by Andrie Linde, Russina-American physicist sees our universe as one of many “bubbles” that grew as a part of a _______.
MULTIVERSE
