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The Cosmos: Creation - Online Term Paper

The Cosmos: Creation

Where is the universe from? Where is it going? How is it put together?
How did it get to be this way.
These are Big questions. Very easy to ask but almost impossible to answer.
We want answers for philosophical reason having nothing to do with science. No
one will get rich from discovering the structure of the universe unless they
right a book about it.
The area of science dealing with Big questions is called cosmology. The
reason for it's study is found in the fact that:
The universe was born at a specific time in the past and has expanded ever
since.

The Expansion of the Universe

Edwin Hubble established the existence of other galaxies. He ...

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this so-called Hubble expansion exists throughout the observable
universe.
This shows three important things. First there is no significance to the
fact that earth seems to be the center of the universal expansion. In any
galaxy it would look as if you were standing still and all others were rushing
away from you. Second the movement of the universe is not like an explosion.
Galaxies are not moved through the universe but expand with the universe. Third
the galaxies themselves do not expand only the space between them.
Finally if you ask where the expansion started the only answer is everywhere.
In the words of the fifteenth-century philosopher Nicholas of Cusa, "the
universe has its center everywhere and its edge nowhere."
This theory has one fact that is inescapable. The universe was not always
there but did have an beginning. This has come to be known as the Big-Bang
theory.

Universal Freezing

When the universe was ...

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Added: 6/9/2005 01:32:32 PM
Category: Science & Nature
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 602
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