Big Bang glow hints at funnel-shaped Universe - space - 15 April 2004. Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn? It may sound like a surrealist's dream, but according to Frank Steiner at the University of Ulm in Germany, recent observations hint that the cosmos is stretched out into a long funnel, with a narrow tube at one end flaring out into a bell. It would also mean that space is finite. Adopting such an apparently outlandish model could explain two puzzling observations.
The first is the pattern of hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background radiation, which shows what the Universe looked like just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. It was charted in detail in 2003 by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. Steiner and his group claim that a finite, horn-shaped Universe fits this observation. The present-day volume of their model universe is nearly 1032 cubic light years. Infinitely long In the model, technically called a Picard topology, the Universe curves in a strange way.
The horn universe is harder to pin down. Recommended by. Religious cosmology. Biblical cosmology[edit] The Bible was formed over many centuries, by many authors, and reflects shifting patterns of religious belief; consequently, its concepts of cosmology are not always consistent.[1][2] Nor should the Biblical texts be taken to represent the beliefs of all Jews or Christians at the time they were put into writing: the majority of those making up Hebrew Bible or Old Testament in particular represent the beliefs of only a small segment of the ancient Israelite community, the members of a late Judean religious tradition centered in Jerusalem and devoted to the exclusive worship of Yahweh.[3] Christianity/modern Judaism[edit] Around the time of Jesus or a little earlier, the Greek idea that God had actually created matter replaced the older idea that matter had always existed, but in a chaotic state.
This concept, called creatio ex nihilo, is now the accepted orthodoxy of most denominations of Judaism and Christianity. Mormon cosmology[edit] Islamic cosmology[edit] Physical cosmology. Physical cosmology is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the Universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation, evolution, and ultimate fate.[1] For most of human history, it was a branch of metaphysics and religion. Cosmology as a science originated with the Copernican principle, which implies that celestial bodies obey identical physical laws to those on Earth, and Newtonian mechanics, which first allowed us to understand those physical laws. Physical cosmology, as it is now understood, began with the development in 1915 of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, followed by major observational discoveries in the 1920s: first, Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe contains a huge number of external galaxies beyond our own Milky Way; then, work by Vesto Slipher and others showed that the universe is expanding.
Cosmology draws heavily on the work of many disparate areas of research in theoretical and applied physics. With. Flat Earth. The paradigm of a spherical Earth appeared in Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 BC, and knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world from then on.[2][3][4][5] The modern misconception that educated Europeans at the time of Columbus believed in a flat Earth, and that his voyages refuted that belief, has been referred to as the myth of the flat Earth.[6] Historical development[edit] Ancient Near East[edit] The Jewish conception of a flat earth is found in biblical and post-biblical times.[7][8][9] In early Egyptian[10] and Mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floating in the ocean.
Ancient Mediterranean[edit] Poets[edit] Philosophers[edit] Possible rendering of Anaximander's world map[25] Historians[edit] Ancient India[edit] Norse and Germanic[edit] Ancient China[edit] Физическая космология » Мир. Карта реликтового излучения – современное космологическое представления о границах Вселенной См. также более широкое определение термина – космология.Физическая космология – подразделение астрономии, исследующий физическое происхождение Вселенной и ее природу в самых крупных масштабах.
Анализ взглядов древних натурфилософов позволяет утверждать, что определенные натурфилософские взгляды получили дальнейшее развитие и заложили основы современной теоретической и экспериментальной науки. Месопотамия Представления древних вавилонянам о Вселенной В древнем Вавилоне более 3 тыс. лет назад возникла совокупность представлений о космогонию (происхождение и развитие небесных тел и их систем во Вселенной) и космологию (представлений относительно строения Вселенной как единого целого). Вавилоняне считали важнейшим светилом Луна, но знали еще пять планет. Иллюстрация геоцентрической системы мира Птолемея, сделанная португальских картографом Бартоломеу Велью в 1568 году.
К . . Падает от 1 до 0. . КОСМОЛОГИЯ. Timeline of cosmological theories.