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Universe  When it comes to staying current with latest discoveries clearing away common misconceptions and harnessing the power of media in the service of students and instructors no other fulllength introduction to astronomy can match it Now the textbook that has evolved discovery by discovery with the science of astronomy and education technology for over two decades returns in spectacular new edition thoroughly updated and offering unprecedented media optionsAvailable in Split VolumesUniverse Stars and Galaxies Fourth Edition 1429240156Universe The Solar System Fourth Edition 1429240164. Włodzisław Duch . Katedra Informatyki Stosowanej . Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń. . Google: W. Duch. Debate with Andy McIntosh at NCU . Toruń. , 10.12.2013. What it is about?. Does God help us to understand the Universe?. w. here does it end?. Chris North. Cardiff University. The speed of light. c = 299,792,458 m/s. . or 670,616,629 miles per hour. . or 2 million . million. furlongs per fortnight. or ~300,000 km/s. . Anthony Lasenby. Astrophysics Group. Cavendish Laboratory. Cambridge, UK. a.n.lasenby@mrao.cam.ac.uk. www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~clifford. Overview. Want to share two recent exciting developments. Recent progress in cosmology. SIZE and Scale. Of The. Universe. What is your Cosmic Address?. Size and Scale of the Universe. # Street. City. State. Country. Continent. Hemisphere. . Planet. Orbit. Star?. …?. …. …. …. …. Chapter 38. Reminders. Complete last Mallard. -based reading quiz before class on . Thursday (. Ch 39).. I will be sending out last weekly reflection and sample final . on Thursday. . Final exam Thursday, . Flat Earth Theory. Flat Earth Theory. Date: Ancient Times. Scientists: Babylonians, Egyptians. Theory Description: The world is a flat disk, not a sphere. Evidence: None. As early as the 4. th. century BC, scientists and philosophers, such as Aristotle, realized that the Earth was a sphere. Finely-Tuned . for Life?. Allen . Hainline. Ratio Christi Philippines. www.OriginsDiscussion.info. omega_sw@yahoo.com. June 2, 2015. Does God Exist?. 2. Outline. More evidence. Objections to the argument from fine-tuning to design and God. Topic. Essential Question. How did the view of the universe change during the Scientific Revolution?. Essential Question. Who was Ptolemy and what did he believe about the universe?. Ancient Greco-Roman astrologer & astronomer. It was apparently much flatter in the past:. Inflation!. For definiteness, pick . g. eff. =200 and . k. B. T. = 3. . 10. 15. . GeV. You should memorize this value to about 54 digits or so. How did it happen to be so close to 1?. Why do we believe in God?. Why do we believe?. As Christians, we believe because …. We are confident Jesus rose from the dead. We have experienced God’s presence in our lives. (fill in any other reasons) . Lecture . 11; . May . 21 2013. Previously… on astro-2. In an expanding universe the relationship between redshift and distance depends on the cosmological parameters (i.e. the geometry and expansion of the universe). Why?. Ryan Broll. Overview. Always referring to “shape” at all times, because of special relativity.. Curvature vs. Topology. “Flat or curved” vs. “Open or closed”. FLRW model. Named after scientists. From t=0 to the CBR Era. The CBR. Universe hotter & denser in the past. For T high enough - ionized & opaque – blackbody. and. Currently T=2.726 K. z(opaque. . transparent)~1100 K. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. . –Kurt Vonnegut. Cosmology. Cosmology is the study of the nature of the universe, how the universe began and how it will end, if it does. There is religious cosmology, and scientific cosmology.