UNIVERSE AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

CHRISTIANS

They believed that God separated light from darkness, created sky, land, sea, moon, stars, and every living creature in a span of six days.

HINDUS

describes the universe as a “cosmic egg” or BRAMANDA.

BINDU

the concentrated point that expands and eventually collapses again.

ANAXAGORAS (PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE)

–According to him, universe is made up of different mixture of all ingredients in a small fragment.

nous/mind

MIXTURE WAS SET IN MOTION CALLED

LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS (ATOMIC UNIVERSE)

They stated that universe is composed of very small, indivisible and indestructible atoms. THEY FOUNDED THE SCHOOL OF ATOMISM

ARISTOTLE (ARISTOTELIAN UNIVERSE)

he established a geocentric universe in which the fixed, spherical earth is at the centre, surrounded by concentric celestial spheres of planets and stars.

CLADIUS PTOLEMAUS (PTOLEMAIC UNIVERSE)

he described a geocentric model of the universe based on the theory of aristotle in which the planets and the rest of the universe orbit a stationary earth in circular epicycles.

ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS (HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE)

he was the first person to present an explicit argument for a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the sun, not the earth at the center of the known universe.

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (COPERNICAN UNIVERSE)

he adapted the geocentric maragha of ibn al-shatir to meet the requirments of the heliocentric universe of aristarchus.

RENE DESCARTES (CARTESIAN VORTEX UNIVERSE)

he outlined a model of the universe with many of the characteristics of newtons static, infinite universe. His model involved of huge swirling whirlpools of fine matter.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

he explained the universe by his theory of relativity that has a same thought with Isaac Newton.

GEORGE HENRY JOSEPH EDOUARD LEMAITRE (BIG BANG THEORY 1927)

this theory describes the universe as originating from an infinitely tiny, infinitely dense point of around 14 billion years ago.

BIG BANG

was a violent explosion which caused the inflation and expansion of the universe

300 MILLION YEARS AG0

stars and galaxies began to form as hydrogen and helium coalesce with the aid of gravity

EDWIN HUBBLE 1929

he showed that universe was not static through his telescope

ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON 1965

they discovered the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

FRED HOYLE, THOMAS GOLD AND HERMAN BONDI

steady state theory. they predicted a universe that expanded but did not change its density

ANDREI LINDE

he developed inflationary universe with his chaotic inflation theory in 1983. he states that our universe is just one of many “bubbles” that grew as part of a multiverse.