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The Beginning of the Universe

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The Beginning of the Universe
By Oscar Frederickson
There was an extraordinary event that occurred billions of
years ago. It was the start of the universe. It was the point
at which a vast amount of energy in space violently
expanded, resulting in the cosmos and everything else we
see around us today. Understanding the history and
nature of how the cosmos came into being may be the
greatest scientific achievement.
There are many different theories on what happened
before the Significant Bang. It is a very big question.
Although astronomers maintain that there is no solution
to what happened before the Big Bang, there are various
possibilities. Because there are no instruments to access
the truth, it is assumed that one can hypothesize. The
contrast between whether the cosmos is limited or
infinite, in terms of time or space.
Other concerns include whether the cosmos is infinite or
has a limit. These are questions that have been posed for
ages. For example, "Imagine a warrior with a spear at the
edge of the cosmos, and he hurls the spear," Pluto's
colleague Archytas added. "Does it seem to go on forever,
or does it hit something and bounce back?" This leaves us
with two options: either the cosmos is limitless, or it ends,
and if it does, what is the end?
Another theory is Copernicus. Where, the sun is stationary
in the center of the universe and the earth revolves
around it.
Isaac Newton was the next to explore the vastness of the
world. He proposed an endless universe that was
boundless in extension, time, and space. Wright followed
by envisioning a limitless number of planets in the
universe. However, theoretically, this is difficult to accept.
because, in an endless universe, every sideline, whether
star or galaxy, must finish in a point of light. The light from
each star is unlimited, the night sky must be as luminous
as the daylight sky. This is a conundrum that Newton never
solved.
Galaxies originally were considered as "Island Universe".
Isolated regions of gas, dust, and billions of stars separated
by impossibly vast distances. According to experts, no
galaxy is an island, and galaxies like companionship. A
massive galaxy's gravitational pull attracts similar-sized
and smaller companions. Galaxies can assemble hundreds
of them or millions to form a massive cluster.
Herschel attempted to map the immense cosmos that he
knew existed. However, two quite distinct conceptions
were at work at the turn of the twentieth century. The
hazy nebulae in one of them were thought to represent
distant systems of stars like the Milky Way, maybe
hundreds of thousands of light years away. The accepted
counter-model, on the other hand, claimed that these
fuzzy patches of light were simply star formations inside
our own huge galaxy, which was the universe. This was
resolved by Edwin Hubble, who made the breakthrough
finding by estimating the distance between a few dozen
galaxies using astronomical measurements.
The cosmos is made up of dark and mysterious matter as
well as light and visible matter, which we call dark matter.
Astronomers are certain that dark matter exists since the
rule of gravity has been tested several times. For example,
when dark matter is added to computer simulations, huge
scale structures that resemble our universe emerge.
The cosmos has expanded to one hundred billion
kilometres. The cosmos can be described as a ten-billiondegree Celsius soup packed with several particles and
energy. Things cool and calm down over several minutes.
Atoms are stable and electrically neutral environments
produced from hadrons and electrons. Some refer to this
time as the "dark period" since there were no steps
because hydrogen gas could not enable visible lights to
move. After millions of years of clustering and gravitation
putting it under tremendous pressure, stars and galaxies
began to emerge. Their radiation converted the stable
hydrogen gas into plasma, which still pervades the cosmos
and allowing light source to flow through. There was
finally light.
However, in the very beginning or the “Big Bang”, we have
no idea what really happed. Our instruments fail, and
natural laws do not make sense. To understand what
happened, we need a theory that integrates Einstein's
Relativity with Quantum Mechanics, which many scientists
are now working on. Still, this leaves many questions
unresolved. Were there other worlds before ours? Is this
the very first and only universe? What caused the Big Bang
to occur? Or did it happen by chance?
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