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Universe has cooled from 1032 degrees to 3 degrees Kelvin in 15 billion years (K = C+273)
AS THE UNIVERSE EXPANDED, IT COOLED
• Energy that was released from cooling formed matter.
(Matter and energy are related, E=mc 2)
• The universe expanded, cooled then formed matter.
WHAT TRIGGERED THE BIG BANG?
• Scientists disagree on what started the big bang:
• Was it the edge of another expanding universe?
• What it radiation from another big bang hitting the tiny spot
that triggered it?
• Was it the result of radiation from a supernova?
• No one, as of yet, knows for sure
IF WE DON’T KNOW WHAT CAUSED THE BIG
BANG, DOES THAT MEAN THE THEORY IS NOT
VALID?
• Theories don’t try to explain everything, just what
evidence is available and pertinent
• the theory of Gravity doesn’t explain where mass
came from
• The Germ theory of disease transmission doesn’t
explain where germs came from
• Atomic theory doesn’t state where atoms come from
LESSON CHECK
• On a separate piece of paper, do the following:
• Describe how the universe was prior to the big bang
• Describe why galaxies that are further away from
Earth are moving faster than Earth
• Describe the universe today
CREATE YOUR OWN…
BIG BANG
EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG BANG THEORY
• The Sun
• Eight Planets
• One dwarf planet
• Core conditions
• temperature is 15.6 million Kelvin
• pressure is 250 billion atmospheres
• Orbit
• highly eccentric
• perihelion 46 million km
• aphelion it is 70 million km
• Volcanism
• Rotates backwards
• Dense Atmosphere
• Hot – 480 C
• Largest Planet - Jupiter contains over 70% of the mass in the solar system
outside the Sun
• It is about 11 times the radius and 330 times the mass of the earth.
• Jupiter is not a solid body, but instead is a ball of gas and liquid (mostly
hydrogen and helium)
Great Red Spot
63 Moons
Takes 12 years to rotate around the Sun
SATURN
• Gas giant.
• Strong surface winds (1500 mile/hour).
• Less dense than water.
• Has rings made up of ice, dust and rocks
• 29 years to rotate one time around the Sun
• Atmosphere is Helium
• Has 60 moons – Titan is its largest (larger than Mercury)