Theories on the Origin of the Universe

One of the books of the Hebrew Bible and Christian old testament, described how God separated light from darkness, created the sky, land, sea, moon, stars, and every living creature in a span of six days.

• Genesis

• Luke

• Peter

Describes the Universe as an oscillating universe in which a 'cosmic egg' or Brahmanda, containing the whole universe

• Bindu

• Rigveda

• Brahmanda

He believed in a primordial universe and explained that the original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all its ingredients small fragments of themselves

• Democritus

• Ptolemy

• Anaxagoras

They believed in an atomic universe

• Leucippus and Democritus

• Stoic Philosophers

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

They believed that the universe is like a giant living body, with the sun and the stars as the most important parts to which everything else was interconnected.

• Leucippus and Democritus

• Stoic Philosophers

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

They believed that the universe was composed of very small, indivisible, and indestructible atoms.

• Leucippus and Democritus

• Stoic Philosophers

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

They proposed a geocentric universe where Earth stayed in motionless in the heavens and everything is revolving around it

• Leucippus and Democritus

• Stoic Philosophers

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

He demonstrated that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth in the center of the universe

• Aristotle

• NIcolaus Copernicus

• Albert Einstein

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He describe the universe, matter on the large scale is uniformly distributed, and the universe is gravitationally balanced but essentially unstable

• Isaac Newton

• Renee Descartes

• Albert Einstein

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According to him, the vacuum of space was not empty at all but was filled with matter that swirled around in large and small vortices. His model involved a system of huge swirling whirlpools of fine matter, producing gravitational effects

• Isaac Newton

• Rene Descartes

• Albert Einstein