Fox tackles the origins of the current thinking on the beginning of the universe starting way, way back with Plato, and moving her way through Ptolemy, the astronomical duo of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler (did you know that Brahe had his own castle for studying astronomy?), Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and the current state of the Big Bang, String Theory, and alternative theories for the origins of the universe.
This compelling book describes how the Big Bang theory arose, how it has evolved, and why it is the best theory so far to explain the current state of the universe.
The film presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design - the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone.
Now Lanza is advancing what he says is a new theory of the universe, an idea to which he says he has devoted his entire life.
At the time Einstein proposed his Theory of General Relativity, it had not been observationally established that the universe was in a state of expansion.
Plugging that figure into the theory suggests that 77% of the stuff in the universe is the most mysterious stuff of all dark energy.
The heliocentric theory answered these questions and suggested a whole range of useful hypotheses about the rest of the universe.
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When calculating the amount of dark energy in the universe, the current theory produces an estimate that is off by by 10120.
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The geocentric theory offered no explanation why the planets were revolving in these circles and offered no plausible picture of the universe as a whole.
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Stojkovic and his team have proposed a theory for a model of the early universe which suggests that as the universe began and expanded, it actually added dimensions.
In string theory, the forces and particles of which the universe is now composed are actually vibrations of tiny strings made from these ten dimensions (six of which are confined to such strings, and thus are not perceivable in the human-scale world).
The topics of conversation included evolutionary theory, libertarian philosophy, and the anthropic principle, which holds that observations about the universe depend on the existence of a consciousness that can observe.
First introduced by Alan Guth of MIT in 1980 to explain (among other points) why the geometry of the universe appears to be flat and why matter is distributed so evenly throughout space, the theory also offered solid grounds for modeling how galaxies formed as the universe evolved.
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In a bid to restore yet more symmetry to the universe, a number of particle physicists are developing a theory called supersymmetry.
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This theory holds that in its early history, the observable Universe underwent a period of exponential expansion, doubling in size many dozens of times, growing our observiball a tiny fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus to that of, say, a beach ball.
At a fundamental level, it also supports an "add-on" to this Big Bang theory known as inflation, which postulates that in the very first moments of its existence the Universe opened up in an exponential manner - faster than light itself.
One theory that could be explored is that the nature of dark energy, which scientists think is causing the accelerated expansion of the universe, is different from the simplest human-calculated models.
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