9. Timelines - The Really Big Picture The following graphics will be used to illustrate the various time periods under discussion
10. Time Frame - Age of Cosmos 15 B* 10B 5B Now * actually 13.7 B The ~15 Billion Year History of the Universe: The 1st Billion years The last 5 billion years Galaxies Formed 4.6 Billion Years Earth Formed
11. 5B 4B 3B 2B 1B Now 500M 400M 300M 200M 100M Now 1M 0.8M 0.6M 0.4M 0.2M Now Time Frame - Age of Cosmos - cont. Human Civilization 12,000 Years 15 B 10B 5B Now Earth Formed Life Vertebrates Plants Land Animals Dinosaurs Mammals Primates Hominids Homo Sapiens 500 Million Galaxies Formed 4.6 Billion Years Earth Formed
12. 15 B 10B 5B Now 0 400 K 1 M 0 3 minutes Time Frame - Age of Cosmos The 1st Few Seconds Galaxies Form Earth Forms Electron Capture Forces separate, inflation occurs, and matter is created
13. A 2-D Look at Cosmic Evolution Here be Dragons
14. The Birth of the Universe - Limits of Our Knowledge time = 0 Temperature = infinite increasing time incr. expansion Particle theories uncertain Quantum gravity needed Singularity!? We can have knowledge of the universe's origin only after the Planck time of 10 -43 sec time = ~14 B years Temp = ~ 3K }
15. The Progress of the New Physics This is why we are limited to AFTER the Planck time.
17. Big Bang - a more correct view A More Correct View of the Big Bang Theory
18. Quantum Fluctuations and Particle Physics A Review of Particle Physics is Necessary to Understand Early Cosmology Quantum fluctuations are allowed by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
36. Matter Matter created in steps starting after the Planck time 10 -43 sec At ~ 60K years: Radiation (photons, neutrinos) Energy Density becomes equal to Dark and Atomic Matter Density.