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What defines the Universe?What defines the Universe?
A)A) Infinity Infinity B)B) The sum of all energy and all matterThe sum of all energy and all matterC)C) The sum of all matter and the space in which allThe sum of all matter and the space in which all
events occurevents occurD) Planets, solar systems, galaxiesD) Planets, solar systems, galaxiesE) The physical limits of human observationE) The physical limits of human observation
Eagle NebulaImage from Hubble telescope
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Is the Universe infinitely large?
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THOUGHT EXERCISE
If the universe is assumed to be infinite, containing an infinite number of luminous stars,
then every line of sight should terminate eventually on the surface of a star.
(Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, 1823)
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Is the Universe infinitely old?Is the Universe infinitely old?
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How are the
AGE
and the
SIZE
of the Universerelated?
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How are the
AGE
and the
SIZE
of the Universerelated?
Light year:
Distance lighttravels in a
vacuum in 1 yr=
9,460,730,472,581 km
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In the 1920s Edwin Hubble
calculated distances to stars
outside of the Milky Way galaxy
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Red OrRed Orange ange Yellow Yellow GreenGreen Blue Blue Indigo Indigo VioletViolet
Stationary Stationary light sourcelight source
RetreatingRetreatinglight sourcelight source
ApproachingApproachinglight sourcelight source
Most galaxies are Most galaxies are redred shifted shifted
At the same time Vesto Melvin Slipher was calculating galactic Red Shifts (like Doppler effect)
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What Hubble noticed was that -
The further away a galaxy is from us,
the larger its Red Shift….
…what does this mean about its speed?
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What Hubble noticed was that -
The further away a galaxy is from us,
the larger its Red Shift….
….the faster it’s moving away from us.
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Galaxies close to us are moving away from us slowly
Galaxies that are farther away from us are moving away from us faster
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Straight line indicates that DISTANCE and SPEEDof recession are…?
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Straight line indicates that DISTANCE and SPEEDof recession are…
PROPORTIONAL
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If all galaxies aremoving away from
each other…
what shape doesthe universehave to be?
A) DiscB) EllipseC) ConeD) Spiral
E) Sphere
What’s wrong with this picture?
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“Hubble’s Constant” for the cosmic
rate of expansion
What does anexpanding universe
imply?
1 million light years1 million light years15 km/sec15 km/sec
2 million light years2 million light years30 km/sec30 km/sec
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There was a beginning!
the “Big Bang”
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So how So how BIGBIG is the Universe? is the Universe?
Edwin Hubble calculated the rate (R) at which the universe is expanding
For two galaxies that are separated by a distance (D)
R= D/TRate of expansion = distance between two objects/time of expansion
This can be reorganized to T = D/R.T=age of the universe!T=age of the universe!
Hubble’s calculation = About 20 billion years
Improvements in estimating the rate of recession have lowered the probableage of the Universe to ~13.7 billion years
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The Big Bangvs.
Steady-State
-13.7 Billion years
1) Cosmic Red Shift
2) …?
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The Big Bangvs.
Steady-State
-13.7 Billion years
1) Cosmic Red Shift
2) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- 2.725° above absolute zero
- extremely uniform distribution - microwave portion of EM spectrum
Gravitational singularityImmensely hot and dense
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Triangulum Nebula
Observable Universe –Observable Universe –The distance from which light or other radiation can have reached EarthThe distance from which light or other radiation can have reached Earth
based on the age of the universe, ~13.7 billion light years in radiusbased on the age of the universe, ~13.7 billion light years in radius
Beyond the Observable Universe –Beyond the Observable Universe –Unobservable physical phenomena are scientifically irrelevant.Unobservable physical phenomena are scientifically irrelevant.They cannot be measured, and therefore hypotheses about parts of They cannot be measured, and therefore hypotheses about parts of the universe that are not observable may be ignored.the universe that are not observable may be ignored.
Hypothesis: a well-tested and widely accepted view that explains certain observable facts
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Universe summary:
1)Universe has a finite size and a known shape(expanding sphere)
2) Therefore, it must have a finite age(13.7 billion years)
3) And therefore, there must have been a beginning(the “Big Bang”, not Steady State system)
4) Evidence: galactic Red Shifts, CMBR
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Approximate location of our sun
Central bulge or nucleus
Width ~100,000 light years, thickness ~1,000 light years
(One light year = ~5,878,482,164,161 miles)~979 x the world’s population
65% of U.S. National Debt (~$9 trillion)
Milky Way Galaxy – barred spiral galaxy
The Milky Way Galaxy, one of billions of other galaxies in the
universe, contains about 400 billion stars and countless other objects.
Democritus first suggested the Milky Way was made of stars about 400 BC
Supermassive blackhole: 100,000s to10s of billions of solarmasses
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The beginning of the Solar System 6.9 billion
years ago
Explosion of ancestral starcreates giant cloud ofcold interstellar gas
Composition same as our modern Sun
= 98% hydrogen and helium,
2% heavier elements from previous
solar explosions
Solar Nebula Hypothesis
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Formation of a nebula
.
.
.
.
.What causes
this gascloud to
stopexpanding?
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1) Nebula collapses andcondenses
2) Rotation started by shockwavesfrom a nearby explosion (?)
3) Because the solar nebula was rotating, it contracted into a disc, and the planets formed with orbits lying in nearly the same plane.
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The spinning solar nebula segregated
into:
1) the inner nebula core that was to become the Sun
2) a cooling outer accretion disc of
rocky fragments and dust
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1) Formation of young sunNebula’s gravity causes compaction
Core density increasesHydrogen nuclear fusion starts
10-50 million years
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Young stars have high solar wind:stream of charged particles ejected
from upper atmosphere of star
-geomagnetic storms-comets’ tails
-Auroras
1) Volatile (gaseous) compounds expelled from inner system:1) Volatile (gaseous) compounds expelled from inner system:He, H, COHe, H, CO22, H, H22O, NO, N22, CO, NH, CO, NH33, CH, CH44
2) Inner system enriched in metals, silicates:2) Inner system enriched in metals, silicates:
Fe, Si, O, Mg, Al, Ca + othersFe, Si, O, Mg, Al, Ca + others
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2) Planetesimal accretion- Dust (metals and silicates)- Ices (water, methane, ammonia)- Grains condense, collide, accrete electrostatically- Increasing gravity attracts more material~5 to 4.6 billion yrs ago
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1) Inner Rocky Planets – Fe, Mg, Si, O, Ca, Na, K, Al (nonvolatile)Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
2) Outer Gas Giants – He, H, CO2, H2O, N2, CO, NH3, CH4 (volatile)Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Frost line
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A rare image of tiny Pluto with
its moon Charon, which
is slightly smaller.
Pluto's surface is believed to
reach temperatures
as low as -240°C.
Why isn’t Pluto a planet?
A) It doesn’t have enough massB) It’s too far from the Sun
C) It’s gaseous instead of rockyD) Its orbit does not track within
the planetary diskE) It’s named after a dog
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PLANET (2006!)PLANET (2006!)
A celestial body that: A celestial body that:
(1) Is in orbit around the Sun (1) Is in orbit around the Sun
(2) Has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces (2) Has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shapeso that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape
(3) Has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit(3) Has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit
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Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are usually icy planetoids native to the outer solar system
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Kuiper Beltand
Oort Cloud
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Early Earth
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Planetesimal accretion ongoing….
Phase I:Bombardment by planetoids/asteroids
(Earth is already a planet, but just a fraction of its current size)
How do we know this was happening?
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Early Bombardment
Craters preserved on
surface of Moon
How wasour Moonformed?
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Giant Impact HypothesisTheia collides with Earth
~4.5 billion years ago
Lagrangian stability fieldsLagrangian stability fields
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What happens to the impact debris?What happens to Earth?
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What familiar climatephenomenon doesEarth’s “obliquity”(tilt) cause?
A) Polar ice capsB) SeasonalityC) Monsoons
D) El NiñoE) Ice ages
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Seasonality results from Earth’s obliquity
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Rock is a good insulator – stores heat from…?
1. …2. …3. … 4. …
Rock is a good insulator – stores heat from…?
1. …2. …3. … 4. …
Phase II: Earth is molten planetPhase II: Earth is molten planet
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Rock is a good insulator – stores heat from…?
1. Residual heat from solar nebula 2. Collisions3. Gravitational contraction4. Radioactive breakdown
What happens to the planetWhat happens to the planet as a result of being liquid?as a result of being liquid?
Rock is a good insulator – stores heat from…?
1. Residual heat from solar nebula 2. Collisions3. Gravitational contraction4. Radioactive breakdown
What happens to the planetWhat happens to the planet as a result of being liquid?as a result of being liquid?
Phase II: Earth is molten planetPhase II: Earth is molten planet
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Density stratification: core atmosphere
“Iron Catastrophe”
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…but, Earth is still relatively smallso what happens to theseatmospheric gases…?
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…Earth’s first atmosphere of H, Heblown away by solar wind and Earth’s own heat.
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Earth 40% modern radius -
Enough mass to attract/retain second atmosphere…what happens to Earth’s temperature?
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Temperatures drop/stabilize…
…what happens to molten planet?
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Outermost layer of molten planet begins to solidify