What are some of the ideas of the origin of the universe?
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at the present time, the only widely accepted, scientifically valid theory of the origin of the universe is the "big bang" theory.  british astronomer fred hoyle gave the theory this name to ridicule it.  the big bang is substantially supported by evidence.  for the first 380 000 years, the universe was opaque.  light could not travel far without interacting with a charged particle (electron or atomic nucleus, mostly hydrogen and helium nuclei).  the universe became transparent when the electrons and nuclei combined to form atoms.  light could travel unhindered because the atoms have no electric charge.  because of the expansion of the universe, we see this light at much longer microwave wavelengths.  this is called the cosmic microwave background, and we can see nothing of the universe before this.  within the first fraction of a second, however, the universe became much larger during an extremely short fraction of a second.  this super-fast expansion is called inflation.\n\ni can't really say much about the many myths of the origin of the universe, what the universe is, or even if the universe had an origin.
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There are three possibilities.\n\n1) There is an almighty, omniscient power (aka God) that created the entire universe.  Somehow it loves and cherishes all life, but is so petty that it performs miracles based on how much time you spent praying to it instead of on how much you really need the help.\n\n2) There is a being or group of beings (aka aliens) that did not create the universe, but tried to influence the development of life on earth by introducing religion that would worship them as God.\n\n3) When primitive humans couldn't explain why things in nature happened, they invented religion to do so.  God is an illusion.\n\nI would consider option 3 to be the most likely, with option 2 as a very remote possibility.  Option 1 is laughable.
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space-time itself originated in the big bang.  everywhere in the universe was once the big bang, and the whole universe was the big bang.  it is actually a common misconception that the big bang occurred at a specific location.\n\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147\nhttp://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html\nhttp://universeadventure.org/
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At the beginning of the universe, I would imagine.
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Big Bang is a theory that tries to explain the formation of the universe, its galaxies, its stars and planets etc.\n\nIt says that the Universe was created by an explosion of a Primeval Atom thus causing it to expand and move away from each other. This was actually based on the Hubble Law which says that Galaxies around us are expanding at speeds directly proportional to their distance from Earth, based on the observation of Edwin Hubble, 1929.\n\nIts a huge topic with lots of technical arguments and counter arguments. Here is the link that will satisfy your quest on Big Bang, atleast for starters...\n\n.:Fishie:.
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The universe is believed to have begun with the Big Bang. However the term 'begun' is a bit misleading since the Big Bang created time itself. Thus, if you think about it, the universe began with the Big Bang but, at the same time, it was always there since time itself only started then!\n\nIF the universe is on course to collapse in the Big Crunch presumably the argument will reverse and time will come to an end.
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Yes it all started with dark matter and energy that were under enormous pressure in a molecule and then the big bang was sparked because of this pressure building up. However what was before this and more importantly why it happened no one will ever know. I prefer to follow the scientific explanation of the origins of the universe as opposed to religious ones because it makes more sense and there is proof.
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The scientific theory is that the Universe started as a fluctuation of the vacuum. Such vacuum fluctuations make appear a small amount of energy, for a small time. This phenomenon is responsible for the existence of forces, that hold the Universe and matter together.\n\nNormally the bigger the energy fluctuation, the smaller the time it is in existence.\n\nNot so the Big Bang. That was a HUGE fluctuation. So big that a lot of energy came to appearance in the form of mass, elementary particles. These particles started expanding, before the vacuum could reclaim the energy.\n\nAnd it is still expanding today. 14 billion years later.
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Basically that something designed the entire universe/world.  Might be God or might be called something else.
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Ahhh, I like your question, deep thought....\n\nThe best thing I can come up with after much thought of the creation of the universe is that it is a result of chaos from the lawlessness of nothingness.  I have wrote this in another answer to another question b-4.  The creation of the universe can not be explained by physics we have.  Physical laws did not exist at the instant of the big bang.  I believe the universe we live in today could have been 10 billion times more massive or 10 billion times less massive as it was dictated from lawlessness.  \n\nNow a very interesting thought I have recently pondered is our existence is actually a 'plan' of the universe in effort to thwart its' inevitable demise.  Maybe our universe has a urning, as we do, to live forever, and from the moment of its' creation there was the plan to allow circumstances within it allowing life to form and evolve in hopes that one day we or some other intelligent life could figure out a way to make the universe last, or live, forever.
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its actualy String-theory that proposes the existance of many other universes. the theory proposes a so called "Landscape of probabilities" with probabilities of as many as 10 to power of 500 universes, and with that many probabilities it is very likely that some of them will be similar to or just like our own universe.\n\nif you would like to know more about this facsinating subject, i would suggest this book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316155799/104-3626905-5554311?v=glance&n=283155\nits a great and easy to understand book.
2022
God created the universe. Notice how the word universe is Latin for "single spoken sentence", which is how he created it. God spoke everything into existance e/accept man, who he created with his own hand. If you dissagree, my username is my e-mail.
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The Big Bang is not a theory of the earth's origin. It is a theory of the origin of the whole universe. The earth wasn't formed until about 8.7 billion years after the universe started.\n\nThe predominant views of the origin of the earth are all variants of the nebular hypothesis which states that a cloud of gas and dust collapsed forming the sun and the solar system. There was a period of intense collisions where the planets grew through accretion. Most of the volatile chemicals (hydrogen, helium) were blown away from the planets near the sun due to solar wind (which was more intense when the sun was young).
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Well, its been theorised that what is beyond the universe is a fourth dimensional bowl. Basically our universe is a 3d soup encased in a four dimensional bowl. How was that made? I would think the same way that our universe was created. I mean, we have only just begun to comprehend the world around us, many of the theories that are coming out are exactly that theories because we really dont know. Untill we can explore more of our universe, we arent really going to know, and if its in a 4th dimension, we really wont know. But, what you could do, is look at some of the sources, and hopefully those will help.
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Well you can never be sure, but one theory is "The Big Bang".  Some useful websites are: \n\n- liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_bang.html\n- www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm\n- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang \n\nHave fun!
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Nobody has been able to prove that the Universe was created by god or not. Cosmologists (astronomer’s who study the evolution and space-time relations of the universe) have been trying for years to understand the way the Universe came into being by trying to understand what occurred during the very first few seconds of the Big Bang. Through these studies they’ve determined with a high degree of probability that the Universe did indeed spring up from a central point in the cosmos and expanded with tremendous speed to envelop all that we see. \n\nThe one thing that none of these scientists have ever attempted to prove is weather the Universe was artificially created (God) or the byproduct of natural forces. To do so would smack of heresy among their scientific peers, not to mention the reaction from the religious community. The entrance of a divine force has been left up to us to determine. Even the cosmologists and mathematicians have long been divided as to weather God had a hand in its creation. \n\nAlbert Einstein (a devout Jew) for instance strongly believed that there was more than a hint of a divine hand in the creation of the universe. The way the physics of the universe operated seemed too perfect for them to spring up from pure chance or coincidence.
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georges lemaître derived equations from general relativity and proposed that the universe began with an explosion of an extremely dense particle of matter.  the theory was later developed by george gamow, alan guth, and others. the big bang theory is no longer like georges lemaître's original hypothesis.  fred hoyle inadvertently gave the theory its name in a dismissive remark.\n\nread these pages:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_infulation\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gamow\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Guth\n\nalso read this page:\nhttp://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147