Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything

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How our universe began? This question always comes into people’s attention. However, there is not an exact explanation about the origin of our universe. All the time, the scientists are trying their best to find out the result.

The secular model to describe the way the universe is created and built is called the Big Bang.

This paper looks at the Big Bang Theory. It examines the history of the theory and the scientific ideas on which it is based. It also examines some of the evidence proving the Big Bang and addresses some of the more common arguments against it.

We are not quite sure exactly how it happened or even how long it took to happen. According to www. Space.com it underwent an incredible growth spurt and doubled in size at least 90 times. This marks the beginning of an extraordinary set of circumstances that created a perfect storm. It was a chaotic set of circumstances the temperature cooled than heated then combined and light appeared and was eventually followed by complete darkness. This light is detectable today and can be researched which will hopefully lead to answers that we have been wanting to answer for many years. Nearly 400 million years after our universe made its appearance in this dramatic and chaotic performance it began to come out of its dark ages. This phase of our universe lasted for a very long time and during this time our very first stars and galaxies appeared. The birth of our Solar System happened approximately after our universe turned 4.6 billion years old. It is believed to have been formed out of a “giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the nebula.” In 1960 dark matter was discovered and remain one of the biggest unanswered questions today. Earth made its entrance approximately 4.54 billion years ago. At its beginning it wouldn’t have been able to be inhabited by humans. Volcanic activity was the norm and at one point there was a collision with another body that is thought

The Big Bang started off as energy, deep into the darkness because light didn’t even exist neither did gravity and the universe was never even created. The energy expanded and the temperature got intense and then started to expand. This is what cause the universe, millions of galaxies, stars, and solar systems. Scientists discovered that the space in the Universe was expanding and what cause this was the Big Bang. The evidence can be proven wrong but because of this, what had caused the red shift that was heard in the sky? Scientists believed that the red shift was caused by the Big Bang that was 14 billion years ago.

As the universe expanded, matter collected into clouds that began to condense and rotate, forming the forerunners of galaxies. Changes in pressure caused gas and dust to form distinct clouds. If the mass of material in the cloud was sufficiently compressed, nuclear reactions began, and the sun and the stars were born (Sciences, n.d.). The creation story “the sun mother” explains why the universe was created, whereas this differs from the scientific explanation where it focusses more on how the universe was

Throughout, the book, The Accidental Universe, Alan Lightman the author of the book discusses a number of ideas ranging from, how the world came to be, to the multiverse, as well as other various ideas and his thoughts on them. Consistently throughout the book, Lightman was wishy-washy and it appeared he was trying to please both Atheists, as well as religious people. However, his key idea stays prevalent throughout the entirety of the book. The idea being that this universe came to fruition accidentally, out of nothing.

1. Why is the phrase “nursery of stars” an appropriate way of describing interstellar matter (nebulae)?

There are many topics that science and religion have opposing views on and continue to debate. One of these subjects that has received a great deal of attention and has placed an enormous wedge between the two realms is the varying opinions concerning the creation of the universe. For nearly a century, scientists have explained this phenomenon with the Big Bang theory, whereas spiritual thinkers have long placed their faith in the Genesis creation account. Both submit valid arguments, however, it is ultimately up to each individual to decide which testimony to accept as truth and to consider if it is possible that both opinions could co-exist.

The universe of the past was understood to be a simple one-galaxy model that was both unchanging and immeasurable. Theories have constantly changed and been reconstructed to better portray the progression of human understanding over time. “The cosmos began

There have been many theories concerning what the universe looks like, how it became this way, and where it is going. The most popular theory that people hold today is that the universe began when all the matter ever present in the universe was contained in a tiny speck and that spec exploded. This is known as the Big Bang. This theory has developed a great deal since it was first conceptualized and continues to evolve today. Many different scientists have had a hand in this.

It is generally accepted that the universe had a beginning at some finite and measurable time in the past; however, still highly debated since the beginning of humanity is the source from which the universe came into its existence. In the popular science novel, A Universe from Nothing, Ph.D. and internationally known theoretical physicist, Lawrence Krauss, demonstrates that the most plausible answer to this question is considerably clearer than it appears to be at first sight. Through the presentation of scientific facts and analysis of scientific experiments, Krauss argues that the universe had a beginning with the explosion of a singularity, a point of infinite gravity and density, and how this worldview is fully supported by scientific

Long ago, when the universe was first beginning, the first beings lived in a void of stars and planets. These beings lived in weak harmony with the universe around them; the men defended their homes from the darker entities that sought light from the stars as energy, while the women made homes in the stars and waited for their husbands to return.

Astronomers believed the Universe was created about 14 billion years ago. During that time, the entire Universe was inside a bubble that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead, and it was insanely hot and dense. Out of nowhere this little bubble started expanding. This expansion created what we know as the Universe. In such little time the Universe went from the size of an atom to the ginormous galaxy we have that is continuously growing.