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    Documentry On Space Time

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    This document discusses the history of ideas about the age and origins of the universe. It was originally thought that the universe was static and unchanging, but it became clear that this conflicts with the idea of human progress over time. While some preferred to believe the universe had always existed, this view is difficult to reconcile with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which implies the universe must have had a beginning.

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    This document discusses the history of ideas about the age and origins of the universe. It was originally thought that the universe was static and unchanging, but it became clear that this conflicts with the idea of human progress over time. While some preferred to believe the universe had always existed, this view is difficult to reconcile with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which implies the universe must have had a beginning.

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    This document discusses the history of ideas about the age and origins of the universe. It was originally thought that the universe was static and unchanging, but it became clear that this conflicts with the idea of human progress over time. While some preferred to believe the universe had always existed, this view is difficult to reconcile with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which implies the universe must have had a beginning.

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    documentry on space time

    The time scale of the universe is very long compared to


    that for human life. It was therefore not surprising that
    until recently, the universe was thought to be essentially
    static, and unchanging in time. On the other hand, it
    must have been obvious, that society is evolving in
    culture and technology. This indicates that the present
    phase of human history can not have been going for
    more than a few thousand years. Otherwise, we would
    be more advanced than we are. It was therefore natural
    to believe that the human race, and maybe the whole
    universe, had a beginning in the fairly recent past.
    However, many people were unhappy with the idea that
    the universe had a beginning, because it seemed to imply
    the existence of a supernatural being who created the
    universe. They preferred to believe that the universe, and
    the human race, had existed forever. Their explanation
    for human progress was that there had been periodic
    floods, or other natural disasters, which repeatedly set
    back the human race to a primitive state. This argument
    about whether or not the universe had a beginning,
    persisted into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was
    conducted mainly on the basis of theology and
    philosophy, with little consideration of observational
    evidence. This may have been reasonable, given the
    notoriously unreliable character of cosmological
    observations, until fairly recently. The cosmologist, Sir
    Arthur Eddington, once said, 'Don't worry if your theory
    doesn't agree with the observations, because they are
    probably wrong.' But if your theory disagrees with the
    Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is in bad trouble. In
    fact, the theory that the universe has existed forever is in
    serious difficulty with the Second Law of
    Thermodynamics. The Second Law, states that disorder
    always increases with time. Like the argument about
    human progress, it indicates that there must have been a
    beginning.

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