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Page 3: Universe and Theories of Cosmologymrgoodyearearthscience.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/5/9/... · Oscillation Theory (big crunch) – states the universe started with a big bang explosion

• Cosmology is the study of the origin and general structure of the universe as a whole. It endeavors to use the scientific method to understand the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the Universe.

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• this increase rate of expansion perhaps is due to new data on dark matter and dark energy

• From Hubble graph data we can estimate age of Universe present data: age = 13.8 billion years

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• 2. Oscillation Theory (big crunch) – states the universe started with a big bang explosion and will expand outward to a point until gravity of the matter in the universe stops and pulls everything back together. And will repeat the process over and over …. (also called the rubber band theory)

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• - not excepted due to lack of matter (critical density) – but the search continues ???

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• 3. Steady State theory – universe is stable: density of the universe stays the same

• - not accepted because as the universe expands new matter must form to maintain the density (or fill voids)