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Origin of theUniverse
How Everything Started
 The Solar System
 The Goldilocks Planet
How It Will End
Points to Ponder
 
How It All Started: TwoTheories
Steady State:
 The Universe has always beenand always will be
Inflationary -- Big Bang
 The Universe started in onevast explosion from aninfinitely small point(singularity)
 
History of the Big BangTheory
1915:Einsteinformulates fieldequations describing space-time;arrives at a steady-state solution
1920s:Alexander Friedmann findserrorin Einstein’s solution;Georges Lemaîtreproposesexpanding universe (“cosmicegg”)
1929:Edwin Hubblediscoversgalaxies are moving away fromeach other
 The farther away a galaxy, thefaster it moves
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