PPT-Story of the Universe

Atoms to Astronomy 2 Special theory of Relativity It is a basic property of Nature that Velocity of Light in vacuum is constant All inertial frames are identical so if two objects are moving with a constant velocity it is impossible to do any test which allows to measure the velocities in absolute manner. 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. 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?. …?. …. …. …. …. 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) . Four Lectures by Prof. James Bullock. UC Irvine Physics and Astronomy. Presented by Dennis Silverman. Prof. James . Bullock’s . Education and Honors. Recommended Books and Websites. Rare Earth. Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life. Hubble Expansion and the Big Bang . The fact that more distant galaxies. have higher . redshifts. . indicates that the universe is expanding. This implies that the universe was born in a huge explosion, or . 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 the sum of all energy, matter, space and time.. But there. ’. s a difference between the universe we see (the observable universe) . and the universe as it really exists.. This gets complicated….. 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. 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. 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. If the universe was 1 year old . . .. Science/religion – either/or?. How do we predict the conditions of the early universe?. What are the different eras in the early universe?. What key lines of evidence support the Big Bang model?.