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The Universe.
The
Universe is the name given to everything that exists.
This includes moons, planets, stars, galaxies
and the corner shop down the
road.
There is an awful lot of stuff in the Universe.
Where did it all
come from and where is it
all going?
The
short answer is that no one
knows.
In search of the answer to this question,
some people turn to religion or
philosophy and some people turn to
science.
Theories in
science have changed as time
goes by.
New ideas and advances in technology have given
rise to new
theories.
Steady-State Theory.
Some scientists used
to believe in the steady-state
theory.
This said that the Universe appears to
stay
the same
as time goes
by.
The discovery in the 1920's that the Universe is expanding
marked a decline in the popularity of the steady-state
theory.
Some scientists proposed that
matter is created in the expanding Universe
so that the Universe still appears to stay
the same
and the overall density remains the same.
Most scientists dropped
the idea of the steady-state
theory
in favour of the big bang.
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