Astronomy 2022A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Animal, Intracluster Medium, Nucleosynthesis
6 Mar 2013
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Genesis- god created heavens and earth in seven days and nights. Greco-roman- beginning only chaos, out of void erebus . Nordic-germanic- in the beginning the was only ginnungagap, a great void. Hopi- creator taiowa, no time, no shape and he created finite sotuknang. Chinese- pangu in egg until he finnaly broke it. Concerted human effort to understand (or better: history of natural world and how the natural world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of understanding, done through observation, or experimentation under controlled conditions. The scientific method (karl popper science is a history of corrected mistakes ) Induction: observation, general principle, deduction, prediction, experiments, revision. Supreme being cannot be examined, thus science is powerless to answer question: however doesn"t mean one doesn"t exist. The symbol ~ means roughly equal to: ex. All space, matter and energy that is accessible to us: cosmology being the study of the universe.
