The origin of the Universe Author Fredrick |
Most people would not consider the formation of the Universe
as a part of geology but it is. In order
to make sense of geology one has to know where it all came from; hence the
formation of the Universe.
The closer you get to the beginning it seems that the closer
you get to God. The first book of
genesis in the bible gives as good of an explanation as any of the scientists
have been able to conjure. It simply
says, “Let there be light,” and that was what happened. Scientists that deal in such matters are
called “Cosmologists,” the amazing thing is that the same name is applied to
theologians studying the same thing. The
“Big Bang” is the common name applied to the beginning of the Universe; it is
also called the “Singularity” by some scientists.
One thing that is certain is that all the matter in the Universe came from this one event, but not in a form that we would
recognize. Our curiosity has driven us
to question the beginning of the universe?
Where did the matter come from?
How old is the universe? How did
it get created? Even modern science has not
been able to answer these questions, and a good deal of what we know is pure
speculation. Modern science is not able
to add firm answers to these questions bringing in them beyond the realm of
hypothesis.
Of course for any question that is answered the answer
generates a plethora of new questions.
Of these questions one of the most vexing is, “how many universes are
there?” We do know that our universe is
finite in size, so what occupies the rest of the Cosmos? One of the theories that has been put forth
is that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes. If there are parallel universes do we exist
on them also? If we exist on these
parallel universes is it possible for us to go from one universe to
another? And even more vexing question
is if we do need to exist in parallel universes are we the same person? Does this explain the paranormal existence of
the doppelgangers, our spiritual doubles? As a matter of fact it actually brings up the
question is there a God?
For scientists that for the most part are believers in God
this is probably the most vexing question of all. This brings forth the question, “Where did
this all come from?”
Laymen look upon this as some sort of vast explosion, but it
really isn’t. The beginning of the
universe really happened more like someone inflating a balloon that has been
expanding ever since. Although genesis
says, “Let there be light,” for the first hundred million years or so of the
universe’s history there was no visible light.
It wasn’t until the first proto-galaxies appeared that light may have
become part of the universe.
According to NASA the universe was born 13.7 billion years
ago. It was about 300,000 years later
that hydrogen atoms were able to capture electrons forming the first atoms. Six hundred million years after the Big Bang
the first galaxies were formed.
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