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WorksheetsTheories on the Origin of the Universe
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
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
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
The universe is expanding and originated in an infinitely tiny, infinitely dense point around 14 billion years ago.
Big Bang Theory
Oscillating Universe
Steady State Theory
Matter was not present at the beginning of time, there was only pure energy compressed in a single point called singularity
Big Bang Theory
Oscillating Universe
Steady State Theory
This curvature results in the expansion of the universe for a time, and then to its contraction due to the pull of its gravity in a perpetual cycle of big bang and big crunch
Big bang Theory
Oscillating Universe
Steady State Theory
This theory predicted a universe that expanded but did not change its density-matter was inserted into the universe as it expanded in order to maintain a constant density
Big Bang Theory
Oscillating Universe
Steady State Theory
breaks down an atom's nucleus and produce radioactive decay
weak nuclear force
strong nuclear force
electromagnetic force
