MGMT 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hubble Space Telescope, Willem De Sitter, Royal Astronomical Society
20 Jul 2016
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The universe was created at nightfall immediately preceding sunday, october. The universe was created at nightfall immediately preceding sunday, o 23, 4004 bc. Well: that"s if you believe in the calculations of the seventeenth century cleric james ussher, the archbishop of armagh in. Biblical scholars - among them, the venerable bede, and dr john lightfoot, vice chancellor of the university of cambridge - took delight in adding up the ages of the patriarchs of the old. They all arrived at a remarkably consistent figure - but science was to prove them wrong. By the end of the eighteenth century, geological records on earth were hinting that our universe was a far more ancient place We are driving towards hallowed ground; up into the foothills above pasadena, california. As we break through the la smog, the dome hoves into view: home to the observatory that was to nail down the real origin of the universe.
