any answer for me on the physics of the creation of the earth?
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What do you want to know about the creation of the earth? Our solar system condensed from a cloud of gas and dust about 5 billion years ago. This was induced by the gravity of that gas and dust. Most of the mass was incorporated into the sun or blown away when the sun's fusion reactions started. The remaining planetoids went through a period when they collided and merged forming the major planets including the earth. There is evidence that a Mars-sized object hit the earth fairly early on, forming the moon.
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Ha! finally a question i can actually answer and know 100%! In the beginning, God created the earth, along with the heavens. He said it, and it was done. Pretty sweet, eh? lol...he's pretty good, made it all, in the matter of 6 days...
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OK, according to the Bible, the creation of the heavens and the earth was "the beginning". So, we don't know what God was up to before that time (and in most views, this is irrelevant because God is 'timeless').\nWe are given no explanation of where God came from, it is simply assumed that God always has been (no matter what belief system, Evolution, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, or any other, there comes a point where you simply have to say "I don't know where it/He/we came from").\nBack to the Bible ... Since 'the begining' is the creation of heavens and earth, NOTHING (other than God) existed before that time. God then began a process of 'forming' and 'filling' His creation. This process took Him six days. On day one, He created light and separated it from the darkness, calling it one day. This was the forming of the heavens (space/time).\nOn day two, He formed the atmosphere by separating the waters above from the waters beneath.\nOn day three, He begins to fill what He has formed, starting with the earth, separating the water from the land, and filling the land with growing things (plants).\nOn day four, He fills the heavens (above the atmosphere) with the sun, moon, and stars (probably the angels were created on this day as well).\nOn day five, He fills the water with fish (and other water-dwelling creatures), and the firmament (atomosphere) with birds (and other flying creatures)\nOn day six, He filled the land with all land-dwellers and created man in His own image to rule over the earth as the Vice-regent of God. \nOn day Seven, God rested from (stopped) the work of creation.\nNow, Genesis chapter 2 is often mis-understood to be a contradiction of Genesis 1 because of some differences in the order of creation, and some added details, so I will try to give a little understanding to this. Have you aver read a newspaper headline? Gen. 1 is the 'headline' and the main article is in Gen. 2. This is a detailed account of what happened on day 6, where God made a garden, placed the man in the garden, and then created one of each 'kind' of creation right before his eyes so the man could name them and rule them in equity. Then God created the woman to be with the man (by this time, Adam knew he needed a mate too!)\nIn the garden Adam and Eve had only ONE restriction - They were free to do ANYTHING they wanted to do with the exception of eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were clearly told the penalty of this would be death.\nIn spite of this knowledge, they both ate of the tree, and as a result, death entered the world, and the perfect creation of God was ruined. Instead of killing Adam and Eve though, God provided a 'loophole' in the law, and an animal (probably a lamb) was killed instead. In this way Adam and Eve saw the result of their sin brought death into the world, but God spared their lives for the time. By clothing them in the skins of the animal killed in their stead, God was giving them a constant reminder of the result of sin, and reminding them that He accepted them through the substitution of the animal killed in their place.\nThen God makes an extraordinary promise (Gen. 3:15) That the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent who deceived her.\n\nWe now skip ahead to a time when evil has grown on the earth to the point God can no longer stand it (Gen. 6), and men have stopped caring whether or not they are in right standing with God, forsaking the sacrifice, and offending God in all their thoughts and deeds (possibly because even though Adam lived to the age of 930 years, he eventually did die). \nBut there is one man (Adam's great, great, great, great, great, great, granson) who is still seeking God, and observing the sacrifice for atonement of sin. This man's name was Noah, and God judged the entire world with a flood, but spared Noah and his family (as well as each k
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All the mass on the earth is being pulled in by gravity, you and me included. the more mass you have the more an object pulls towards itself and others (basically heavy things have a sort of pull, so when you are by a huge mountain you are actually being pulled towards it) \n\nThe easiest way of all the mass to be pulled together is in a sphere, there are no corners and its cannot be compressed without other areas moving further away from the centre, so theoreticlaly the earth SHOULD be a sphere\n\nBUT it isn't; due to its rotation it is fatter than it is tall, because of mass being moved out by centrifugal force. \n\nhope this helps
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The earth came into existence by some as yet undetermined process, the most likely of which was a "big bang" whereby all existing planets and solar systems began to form into their current transitory states. During that process, animal life began to form on the earth, by yet another unknown process. The earth is currently in a state of transition that will eventually result in its return to the previous unknown condition that resulted in the "big bang."\n\n\n\nNow send me $5 or I'll put a curse on you.
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hi there i am glad you will explain the scientific way it is thought the earth was made. so here it goes from a biochem major to an awesome parent\nthe sky is blue because of light refraction that occurs when light from the sun penetrates through water droplets. these droplets are H2O and the bonds bend the light in such an angle that only the blue light is visible and the other 6 colors just are seen as white light. the earth's size actually made it have the proper gravitational pull on objects. thus keeps the molecules from excaping into space or from them falling to earth and liquifying or becoming low lying gases. the atmosphere actually came about when the first photosynthetic bacteria eavolved the ability to use light to "power" their energy cycle. they absorbed inorganic molecules like carbon dioxide and the by product was Oxygen. yes what we need is actually the waste of photosynthetic organisms. once the oceans became oxygen saturated the oxygen was able to make its way to the up since it was not inside of the water it became lighter and able to "float up" but not all the way out into space because of the gravity. this led to the development of the ozone layer and its protective properties. \n\nyeah i guess that science does take all the mystery and magice away from it but i think that knowing the actual way things came about brings more opportuinites to learn why these things happen. hope this helps any ?s email me at Rookiejc19@yahoo.com\n\nsorry about the bad grammer and such its pretty late and haha i should be sleeping.!!! goodluck
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The biblical creation dates back about 6,000 years.  As we know, there are fossil remains of humanoids that are in excess of 1M years.  Houston, we have a problem!\n\nActually the problem comes from the translation of the Hebrew and Greek into the English language.  To find the answers to this and a lot of other questions, we need to go back and look at the meaning of the original words.  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void…\n\nThe “creation” of the animals and Adam & Eve was not the first time that there was a creation.  We know this because the Greek word is not “created” but is “restored.”  We also see that in Genesis, Lucifer had already commanded cities and had been alienated by God.  One would surmise that the cities contained inhabitants.\n\nThe fact is, there is a whole lot of stuff that happened before Genesis 1:2 that isn’t dwelt upon very much.   It is apparently of no consequence to us or God would have elaborated on it more.  It isn’t going to affect your doctrine of salvation but it is rather interesting to think about.\n\nOther items of interest (but not of great importance)… People used to live to be several hundred years old.  Were the years in error?  Let’s take a look: \n\n Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel and Seth never saw the sun or the stars.  Why not?  Because there was a layer of water suspended about where the ionosphere is today.  This layer of water caused the temperature of the entire planet to me almost equal.  (and very humid)  The humidity allowed plants to prosper without rainfall because of the ambient moisture.\n\nAlso, the weight of the water caused the atmospheric pressure to be considerably greater than our 14.7 psi.  Some scientists believe it was at least 29 to 30. (It was discovered that astronauts healed of minor cuts & scratches much more quickly when they were kept in an artificially high pressurized chamber.)\n\nThe layer of water protected earth from the constant bombardment of cosmic radiation from the sun.  (We know what drastic effects are caused by just a thinning of the ozone layer.)\n\nWhen you read your bible, take note of when people lost their longevity.  Right after the great flood of Noah, there were some significant differences.  Noah and his family were apparently the first people to actually see the sun, moon and stars and to discover why there was day and night.\n\nJohnny
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Current models of Solar System formation indicate that all the  solid objects in the solar system (planets, moon, asteroids, etc) formed around the same time.  The oldest, unaltered piece of solid material we have found is about 4.6 billion years old (it is a particular type of meteorite).  So we place the formation of the Earth at the time period.\n\nWe can't find any Earth rocks that old, as earth has experienced far to much volcanic and techtonic activity in the past to preserve any of these original rocks.  We can and do find rocks as old as 3.8 billion years in the northeast portions of Canada, and even older samples have been found in the Australia region.
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It is mainly from residual heat from when the earth first formed & the breakdown of radioactive elements w/in the earth. Pressure from the overlying material can also create heat.\n\nThe earth is actually cooling but it will take a very long time for it to "completely" cool.
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Well, believing in "Mother Earth" sure isn't going to save you!\nThink about it - What kind of a diety is the earth? did the earth make itself? obviously not. So who made the earth?\nGod created the earth! Then he put Man here to tend the earth (which we obviously haven't been doing too great a job of).\nPsalm 24:1-2\n1 The earth and everything in it,\n    the world and its inhabitants,\n    belong to the LORD;\n2 for He laid its foundation on the seas\n    and established it on the rivers.\n\nPart of our duty as humans is to steward the earth, remembering that it is God's property!
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Well, it seems like someone hacked into AskJeeves, because I became so curious about your question that I went to AskJeeves. \n\nAnyway, visit this page:\n\nhttp://www.askforkids.com/web?q=Why+does+Earth+move+on+a+tilted+axis%3F\n\nPerhaps it shall work on your computer. Whenever I click on the result, it visits the page temporarily and then suddenly goes to a different page, which seems to want to advertise, though it's under construction.\n\nGreat question!\n\nI personally believe that if the Earth did not use a tilted axis, it would not have electromagnetic fields across it. This would vary the different compositions of materials, and though I do not have very much knowledge about this, it probably would mean that humans could not survive, because humans use electromagnetic forces for various things.
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Have you stopped beating your wife yet? The way you pose the question is not sincere -- you've already interspersed conjecture. There ARE 4 corners to the earth when you look at the REAL earth from space. They are not sharp 90% angles, but nevertheless, the earth is not perfectly spherical. Check out DrDino.com and watch 28 hours of creation facts. There are far more holes in any other explanation for earth's beginning, just check them out. There were no clouds prior to the flood, it was a canopy of water. Similar, but not the same, Saturn has an ice halo around it. Earth had a complete canopy above it which regulated it temperature perfectly. Much thicker and integral than the ozone layer today. Upon God's judgment, God caused this canopy to colapse, forever altering the tropical paradise type atmosphere which allowed all manner of life to flourish, even at the poles. Animals with fresh produce still undigested have been found at the poles, frozen. Why? So God could be glorified thousands of years later when man would examine such evidence. Chances are God used a huge deep-space frozen comet or asteroid to knock the earth slightly out of a true orbit around the sun, the collision resulting in the collapse of the canopy AND cause the earth to tilt. If it were frozen nitrogen, it would quickly freeze even the largest of animals in the area the debris hit the earth. Keep in mind, God gives answers to the humble and the contrite in spirit, not to the proud.
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Here is something for you to ponder.....\nScientists claim that the earth is millions of years old. They make this claim by studying the layers of the earth (example: The Grand Canyon) If you look at the walls of the grand canyon, you can see many different layers of sediment on the walls of the canyon. The heavier and most dense rocks and solid formations are near the bottom of the canyon itself. The softer, less dense earth materials are nearer to the top of the canyon. Now...they claim this took millions or billions of years to happen.\nHere is a simple experiement to prove that theory wrong. Take a large jar or clear glass container and fill it with water (simulating the great flood of Noahs time) next fill it with sand, rocks, dirt and other earthly materials of your own choice....shake it all up to make a nice mixture. Within mere minutes you will see that the heavier earthly materials like the rocks and clay will sink to the bottom and the softer less dense materials will remain at the top and all of this will occur within minutes, not years. To me, this simple experiemnt is proof that the earth is not billions of years old and that the great flood that God put on this earth happend only a few thousand years ago, just around the time Jesus walked the earth! Think about it! I personally do believe there is a God, but I believe that scientists are wrong when they contemplate the earths age and structure, God does exist, in what form I do not know, but he does exist in some way and I get the feeling he is pissed off at most of us...So have faith my friend....Scientists are not always right by any means, God walked the earth only a few thousand years ago....not billions like scientists claim.
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its about being an earthing? i dunno ty for 2 :D
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God created the earth and the heavens. The first people on earth was Adam and Eve. There's your answer have a nice day.
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I'll assume you mean the beginning of the universe, not the beginning of the earth. The earth formed about 8 billion years after the universe did, so there was plenty of matter at that point.\n\nYou are wrong in saying that matter cannot come from nothing. There are always 'vacuum fluctuations' where matter and anti-matter are spontaneously forming and disappearing. This is a measured effect and is important in our understanding of electromagnetism.\n\nOn theory (and I want to emphasize that it is a theory) is that the vacuum with *nothing* in it is at a higher energy than one with *something* in it. The difference in energy is quite large and when the vacuum decayed, it allowed the formation of a *lot* of matter and anti-matter. Because of an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter, when thing recombined, there was a small amount of matter left over. This is the matter we see around us.\n\nAnother theory is that there was another 'universe' before ours that experiences a 'Big Crunch' and collapsed. There was then a type of bounce which formed our current universe. So there would have eben all the matter and energy of that previous universe to work from. This theory has recently been given more credence because of a calculation made with quantum loop gravity ( a proposed theory of quantum gravity).
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GREAT QUESTION!\n\nThe answer is: In several ways.  First of all:\n\n1. Earth rocks!\n\nInstead of following a smooth Keplerian orbit around the Sun, Earth's own centroid performs an oscillatory motion about this "mean path."  By careful observations of the nearest PLANETS (but not the Moon --- why not?!) the amplitude of this Moon-induced "rocking" can be measured: Earth's centroid wobbles back and forth by about 3/4 of the Earth's own radius.  From this alone, one can deduce that the Moon's mass is ~ 1/80th that of the Earth.  \n\n[How?: From cunning arguments, the Greeks worked out long ago that the Moon was about 60 Earth radii distant; but when things are orbiting around one another with an equal but opposite force attracting them, it's the centroid of the COMBINED system that stays fixed, and the sizes of the "orbits" of both objects about their common centroid are inversely proportional to their masses --- just as though there's a giant Archimedes lever out there in space!  So that's how the "60" and the "3/4" combine to tell you that M_moon ~ M_earth/80.]  \n\nFurthermore, THAT is how it was already known in Victorian times that the gravitational acceleration at the Moon's surface must be ~1/6th that of our familiar 'g' at the Earth's surface.  \n\n[The ACTUAL PHYSICAL distance to the Moon is also needed to work this out, so that one can obtain its physical from its angular size.  You then plug the Moon's mass and physical size into Newton's Law of Gravity, applied at the Moon's surface.  Since the Greeks knew the Moon was ~60 Earth radii away, that actually meant measuring the Earth's size well!  \n\nWhen Newton made his own first "Moon check" on his law of gravity, it didn't seem to fit.  He was away home from Cambridge, in Lincolnshire, avoiding the Great Plague of 1666, and thus away from up-to-date books and other information.  But some time later, perhaps on returning to Cambridge, he learned of a new measurement of the Earth's size.  He then went back to his Moon test again, and found that when he'd corrected his earlier calculation, "it answered pretty nearly."  \n\nThat's how he first confirmed his Law of Gravity.  It tells you something about perseverance.]\n\nSo in the end, things like the acceleration at the Moon's surface were already known long before an astronaut demonstrated the "strength" of it by dropping objects on the surface of the Moon, on live television. \n\n2. The tides.\n\nAnother effect of the Moon's gravity on the Earth is of course the tides, though this is a more subtle and less direct (scientific) effect, as it's then the DIFFERENTIAL TIDAL FORCES (derived --- chuckle --- from differentiating the Moon's gravitational force at different places all over the Earth/Oceans etc.) that provide the forcing effect.  However, as we are riding on the surface of the Earth itself, we can ourselves more directly experience and observe this more subtle effect, through the tides, than we can the "rocking" produced by the stronger, main part of the attraction.\n\nI hope you get to study this some day; it's fascinating stuff!\n\n[Here's a funny thing that has always intrigued students at Starfleet Academy.  As viewed in a frame of reference in which the Sun is at rest --- the frame you use when you want to show the planets orbiting the Sun --- what do you think the path of the Moon looks like in space?  Does it spiral a lot, in overlapping circuits, around the Earth's path, or does it slowly and majestically make a gradually curving sinusoidal like motion, first curving in, then curving out (relative to the solar direction) about the essentially circular path of the Earth?  Would you believe that it always CURVES IN TOWARDS THE SUN?!!\n\nIf you know about gravity, acceleration, and the two separate orbital velocites