Origin of the Theory of the Origin.....that would be the Big Bang theory.
The Big Bang theory pictures the explosion that was the provenance of the universe.
So says science....from about the mid-20th century.
Of course there was a very similar theory about 1400 BC ( When was the Bible written? ? Biblica).
The way the theory itself came about in science circles is, of itself, interesting.
1. One of those interesting focal points of our time is the Big Bang theory...the conjecture about the origin of the universe.
Before same, there was "nothing"....."nothing" in the exact and specific meaning of the term: not anything... not a thing.
2. The idea serves as a jumping off point for several views....
....the theological, which posits that God created all;
...the scientific, a search for truth and knowledge about all things;
...and those of an atheistic bent, determined that they can show that natural laws are responsible, hence, no need for any Creator.
3. The irony is that it was not science that first came up with the scientific Big Bang theory.....it was a priest!
Prior to the 1920s, the view of astronomy was that the universe is constant and static. One could say it always was and always would be.
4." A static universe, also referred to as a "stationary" or "infinite" or "static infinite" universe, is a cosmological model in which the universe is both spatially infinite and temporally infinite, and space is neither expanding nor contracting. Such a universe does not have spatial curvature; that is to say that it is 'flat'....In contrast to this model, Albert Einstein proposed a temporally infinite but spatially finite mode las his preferred cosmology in 1917, in his paper Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity."
Static universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5. "...14 May 1916 he also mentions the possibility of the world being finite. A few months later he expanded on this in letters to Willem de Sitter. It is along these lines that he postulated a Universe that is spatially finite and closed, a Universe in which no boundary conditions are needed ...In addition, Einstein assumed that the Universe was static. This was not unreasonable at the time, because the relative velocities of the stars as observed were small." Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft - From Static to Expanding Models of the Universe (4)
Einstein so believed until 1932.
6. That irony mentioned above? It was a Belgian Catholic ordained priest, one who studied mathematics at MIT, who first proposed the Big Bang theory.
Studies of the light reaching us from space showed a gravitational redshift, the wavelength of light stretched by the effect of gravity.
a. In 1912, Vesto Slipher was the first to observe the shift of spectral lines of galaxies, making him the discoverer of galactic redshifts…. Edwin Hubble was generally incorrectly credited with discovering the redshift of galaxies.
7. In 1927, the priest, George Lemaitre, "extrapolated the Hubble, Slipher, and Humanson results backward in time to conclude that if the universe is expanding now, it must have been smaller and smaller as we go back into the past. In effect, he was able to use mathematics to rewind the movie of the progression of the universe to its very beginnings and to demonstrate that it indeed had a beginning- as Scripture tells us."
Amir Aczel, "Why Science Does Not Disprove God," p.100.
Score one for theology, huh?
The Big Bang theory pictures the explosion that was the provenance of the universe.
So says science....from about the mid-20th century.
Of course there was a very similar theory about 1400 BC ( When was the Bible written? ? Biblica).
The way the theory itself came about in science circles is, of itself, interesting.
1. One of those interesting focal points of our time is the Big Bang theory...the conjecture about the origin of the universe.
Before same, there was "nothing"....."nothing" in the exact and specific meaning of the term: not anything... not a thing.
2. The idea serves as a jumping off point for several views....
....the theological, which posits that God created all;
...the scientific, a search for truth and knowledge about all things;
...and those of an atheistic bent, determined that they can show that natural laws are responsible, hence, no need for any Creator.
3. The irony is that it was not science that first came up with the scientific Big Bang theory.....it was a priest!
Prior to the 1920s, the view of astronomy was that the universe is constant and static. One could say it always was and always would be.
4." A static universe, also referred to as a "stationary" or "infinite" or "static infinite" universe, is a cosmological model in which the universe is both spatially infinite and temporally infinite, and space is neither expanding nor contracting. Such a universe does not have spatial curvature; that is to say that it is 'flat'....In contrast to this model, Albert Einstein proposed a temporally infinite but spatially finite mode las his preferred cosmology in 1917, in his paper Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity."
Static universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5. "...14 May 1916 he also mentions the possibility of the world being finite. A few months later he expanded on this in letters to Willem de Sitter. It is along these lines that he postulated a Universe that is spatially finite and closed, a Universe in which no boundary conditions are needed ...In addition, Einstein assumed that the Universe was static. This was not unreasonable at the time, because the relative velocities of the stars as observed were small." Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft - From Static to Expanding Models of the Universe (4)
Einstein so believed until 1932.
6. That irony mentioned above? It was a Belgian Catholic ordained priest, one who studied mathematics at MIT, who first proposed the Big Bang theory.
Studies of the light reaching us from space showed a gravitational redshift, the wavelength of light stretched by the effect of gravity.
a. In 1912, Vesto Slipher was the first to observe the shift of spectral lines of galaxies, making him the discoverer of galactic redshifts…. Edwin Hubble was generally incorrectly credited with discovering the redshift of galaxies.
7. In 1927, the priest, George Lemaitre, "extrapolated the Hubble, Slipher, and Humanson results backward in time to conclude that if the universe is expanding now, it must have been smaller and smaller as we go back into the past. In effect, he was able to use mathematics to rewind the movie of the progression of the universe to its very beginnings and to demonstrate that it indeed had a beginning- as Scripture tells us."
Amir Aczel, "Why Science Does Not Disprove God," p.100.
Score one for theology, huh?
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