How Did Einstein's Theory Contribute To The Advent Of The Universe?

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“We used to look up at the sky and wonder about our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt” (Interstellar). No one knows, or may ever know for certain, how the universe ever came into existence. Cosmologists have uncovered multiple viable theories that explain the advent of the universe, but we assume that there can only be one. In 1927, Georges Lemaître suggested that the universe began at a moment in time and from there everything expanded exponentially outward from that single point. Lemaître’s model was only one of many developed that genuinely offered an explanation to how the universe was created. Lemaître’s model was approached with skepticism because, at the time, a static universe was generally …show more content…

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity explains the natural gravitational pull of all objects. He proposed that, “matter causes space to curve” (Illinois). To paint a picture, matter itself causes space to bend. Imagine a bowling bowl on a rubber sheet, “the large ball will cause a deformation in the sheet’s surface. A baseball dropped onto the sheet will roll toward the bowling ball… smaller masses travel toward larger masses… because the smaller objects travel through space that is warped by the larger object” (Illinois). Newtonian gravity and Einstein’s general relativity differ in a small difference that causes dramatic changes. “The key difference is that Newtonian gravity has extra absolute structures that General Relativity does not have…General Relativity describes gravity as space time curvature while Newtonian gravity describes it as something living on top of a static space with no curvature” (Brown). Newtonian gravity also states, “all objects attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to their distance of separation” (Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation). Newtonian gravity explains the motion of planets and moons, but was replaced by General Relativity. Thus also, the Big Bang Theory was a consequence of the creation of General

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