PPT-Cosmology and the Origin of Life

Astronomy 123 Cosmology Cosmology is the empirical study of the organization structure and evolution of the Universe At any given time we always think our Cosmology is correct Ancient Earth is at center of Universe. Expanding Universe – consistent w/ a Big Bang?. Olber’s Paradox. Large Scale Structure and relation to Dark Matter. Evidence for the Big Bang. The Cosmic Microwave Background. The abundances of the elements. Fall . 2012. Cosmology 2012. Cosmology I & II. Cosmology I: . 4. .9. .-. 21.10. .. Cosmology II: . 29. .10. .. -. 16.12. .. http://theory.physics.helsinki.fi. /. ~. cosmology. Lectures in A315, Mon & Tue 14.15-16.00. Accident or Design?. Robert C. Newman. What Caused Life to Begin?. Did it begin by chance?. By the right things just accidentally happening to get a self-replicating system going?. Did it happen by design?. Answer Involves. Beliefs. Present Condition. Personal History. Ancestry. Larry’s First Answer. I am a man, husband, father.. I was born in CA, chemist, traveled much.. I am Irish, Welsh, English, & Cherokee. . Edwin Hubble. S.B. ’10, Ph.D. ‘17. Hubble . constant. Hubble law. Hubble diagram. Hubble age. Hubble classification. Hubble radius. Hubble sequence. Hubble . flow. Hubble volume. …. .. Pretty much invented observational cosmology & . THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF MICROBIAL LIFE. HOW DID LIFE ORIGINATE?. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. LIFE ARISING FROM NON-LIVING MATTER. LONG BELIEVED AS THE ACCEPTED EXPLANATION OF ORIGINATION OF LIFE. EXPERIMENTS EVENTUALLY SHOWED IT TO BE IMPOSSIBLE. Allen Hainline. Ratio Christi Philippines. omega_sw@yahoo.com. www.OriginsDiscussion.info. Outline. “After reading . Origins of Life. … it is clear [chemical] evolution could not have occurred” Nobel Prize . Lecture 2. Josh . Frieman. I Jayme . Tiomno. School of Cosmology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 2010. Hoje. V. Recent SN Surveys and Current Constraints on Dark Energy. VI. Fitting SN . Ia. Light Curves & Cosmology . “…sparked by just the right combination of physical events & chemical processes…”. Bacteria. Archae-. bacteria. Animalia. Fungi. Protista. Plantae. 4500. 4000. 3500. 3000. 2500. 2000. 500. Protists. Chapter 16. How Ancient Bacteria Changed the World. Mounds of rock found near the Bahamas. Contain photosynthetic prokaryotes. 0. Stromatolites in northern Canada . Figure 16.0Ax1. Fossilized mats 2.5 billion years old mark a time when photosynthetic prokaryotes . Protists. Chapter 16. How Ancient Bacteria Changed the World. Mounds of rock found near the Bahamas. Contain photosynthetic prokaryotes. 0. Stromatolites in northern Canada . Figure 16.0Ax1. Fossilized mats 2.5 billion years old mark a time when photosynthetic prokaryotes . Florida State University. YSP. Topics. Big . Bang Cosmology. The Accelerating Universe. Summary. Big . bang . cosmology. 3. In . the distant past the visible Universe was much smaller than it is today and therefore much, much hotter.. Theories of origin of life. What is life?. The condition that distinguishes . animals and plants. from . inorganic matter. , including the capacity for . growth. , . reproduction. , . functional activity. Origin of Life. Darwin’s theory is based around the idea of a common ancestor that all living organisms can be traced back to. . This ancestor is called the Last Universal Common Ancestor or LUCA. .