Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: White Dwarf, Neil Turok, Big Crunch
19 Dec 2017
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Chapter 1 scientific theory and the big bang. Hypothesis: an educated guess based on observations, sometimes only based on one observation, while it can be supported or rejected, it cannot be proven to be true, explain why of some action. Law: explain a body of observations (explain things, but not describe them, at this time, there is no exceptions to the law, explains how something happened, ex. The law of gravity predicts the behavior of an object as it falls, it does not explain. When the universe began, space and time were created in a gigantic expansion that. Is an effort to explain how the universe began emanated from a singularity" (an area in space-time where gravitational force is so high that all known laws of physics break down and do not apply) 3. 2 the observations/evidence (three pillars of proof) Recession of stars/galaxies (as described by hubble"s law) He demonstrated that there were many galaxies in the universe.
