While watching the videos in class today I got to thinking about the first second in time. I found it quite interesting how scientists have divided up the 1 second into 10^(-43) seconds. The fact that this can happen blows my mind, almost to the point where I am driven to the point of disbelief. It seems to me that since there is no solid proof that the universe was created, how do we know for sure who we can and cannot trust. The science behind the matter is always evolving into bigger and better concepts. It is also extremely hard for me to imagine that the entire universe at one point never existed, yeah, that was billion of years ago, but its still incredibly weird for me to think
I found myself thinking about the heat that this explosion would have created. In one of the videos it said that the Earth was molten and very hot while it was forming. So it must have been a warm environment, right? If it was then what made it change to become cold like it is today?
Many of these same questions came up for me. When the video mentioned the larger clumps of minerals attracting smaller ones from around them, and then said that the Earth was the biggest one, I thought, "wait, what about Jupiter?" Since the entire solar system was still being formed, I imagined other planets forming at the same time as the earth, eight larger clumps of of minerals orbiting the sun in such a way that they picked up all the minerals in their paths, but did not collide with each other (with the exception of the planet that helped form the moon). So if the earth was the biggest clump of minerals, how did Jupiter become the biggest planet? Of course this is all theoretical, and I would like to reiterate my point that we have no way of actually knowing what happened billions of years ago.
ReplyDeleteum is jupiter the one that is mostly gas though? Which planet is that???
ReplyDeleteAlso, I was thinking about that whole earth was magma then got cold..And now aren't we heating up again? Just like the lovely toxic plants that killed themselves off by producing so much oxygen are we going to make a new type of atmosphere for a new type of species???
Is the earth going to get so hot its going to melt again? But the movie was saying that (or maybe the proffesor? now I can't figure out which was which) the heat of the earth is going to last only as long as the materials...And was it nuclear reactions inside the core? I'm not entirley sure what I'm talking about haha but those are some of my confusing thougts
I too found some of the information hard to believe. Nobody really knows everything about how everything was created. I think that it is good that people are trying to come up with more and more reasons and facts for explaining things. It is hard for me to believe things that I can't really see myself. It would be a lot easier for me to believe it if i was there at the time that the earth was created but that would be impossible. It is also hard to believe what people are coming up with because more and more people are coming up with better theories. The information that people are coming up with is very interesting and some of it seems like it could have taken place.
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