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Theories On The Origin of The Universe and The Solar System: Prepared By: Mrs. Nina M. Moleta

Theories on the origin of the universe and the solar system include: 1) The Big Bang Theory which proposes that the universe began as a single point that expanded over time. 2) The Solar Nebula Theory which suggests that the sun and planets formed from a slowly rotating cloud of gas and dust that condensed to form the solar system. 3) The Modern Laplacian Theory which proposes that the sun and planets formed from a rotating nebula that cooled and collapsed, forming rings that became the planets and a central mass that was the sun.

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Theories On The Origin of The Universe and The Solar System: Prepared By: Mrs. Nina M. Moleta

Theories on the origin of the universe and the solar system include: 1) The Big Bang Theory which proposes that the universe began as a single point that expanded over time. 2) The Solar Nebula Theory which suggests that the sun and planets formed from a slowly rotating cloud of gas and dust that condensed to form the solar system. 3) The Modern Laplacian Theory which proposes that the sun and planets formed from a rotating nebula that cooled and collapsed, forming rings that became the planets and a central mass that was the sun.

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Theories on the Origin of

the Universe and the


Solar System

Prepared by:
Mrs. Nina M. Moleta
Concept Map
UNIVERSE

Expansion
supported by Where lies the

Big Bang Solar


Theory System

Explain by

Protoplanet Capture Solar Nebula Laplacian


Theory Theory Theory Theory
Theories
Big Bang Theory
- the modern and widely accepted
explanation of the origin of the
universe.
- in 1931, George Lemaitre, a
Belgian physicist and Roman
Catholic priest, reasoned that if the
Big Bang Theory
- universeat present is expanding
and the galaxies are moving apart,
then in the past, it contracted and
decrease in volume.
Fig 1: Expanding Universe
Origin of the Solar System

• Tiny place in the universe. The


sun-centered model gives an
accurate description of the solar
system, with the Sun at the
center and the planets.
Protoplanet Theory
• Proposed by the British astronomer and
mathematician, William Hunter McCrea, in
1960.
• The sun and the planet were formed
simultaneously.
• They started with a cloud of dust and gas in a
state of violent disturbance and chaos.
• This resulted in the rapid collision of matter
within a cloud and masses coalesced in
different places that formed the sun and the
planets.
Fig.2 protoplanetary disk
Capture Theory
• Was suggested by the British physicist and
planetary scientist, Michael Mark Woolfson, in
1964.
• It gives an account of an interaction between
a condensed solar mass star, which was the
Sun, and a lesser mass protostar
• The sun was formed ahead of the planets as
evidenced of its slow rotation.
• The strong gravitational force of the
sun pulled matter from the
atmosphere of the protostar causing
it to collapse and formed
The protoplanets .
• Collisions between the protoplanets that
were close to the Sun gave birth to the
terrestrial planets.
• The giant planets and their satellites were
formed through condensation of the
protoplanets.
• Some of the moons were actually asteroids
that were captured by the planets that
they surrounded.
The Solar Nebula Theory

• Was proposed by Alastair G.W. Cameron, a


Canadian astrophysicist and space scientist, in
1973.
• The solar system began with a slowly rotating
nebula.
• This disk was made of hot gases and dust
cloud.
• It was believed that the planets originated
from this dense disk which formed from
material in the gas and dust cloud that
collapsed to form the Sun.
• The density of the disk was sufficient enough
to allow the formation of the planets.
Nebular Theory
- this theory is widely accepted when
it comes to the origin of the Solar
System
- the theory explained that the sun
and all the planets began in a
cloud of molecular gas and dust.
Fig 2. The Solar Nebula Theory
Modern Laplacian Theory
• Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French
scholar of mathematics, statistics,
physics and astronomy, first
suggested in 1796 that the sun and
the planets formed from a rotating
nebula which cooled and collapsed.
• It condensed into rings which eventually
formed the planets and a central mass,
which became the Sun.

• The modern version assumes that the


central mass contained solid dust grains,
which caused the gas to moved slowly
as the center condensed.
• Eventually, after the core slowed down, its
temperature rose and the dust evaporated to
form clouds.
• The slowly rotating core became the Sun
Reference:
• Felicerta, Corazon N., Breaking Through Earth
Science for SHS (2017), C and E Publishing, Inc
.,pp 3-6

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