A Very Brief History of the Universe, or How the Universe Got Its Planets | Marisa March

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🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This was one of the lectures from our 2019 Summer Science Conference, "Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Chance in the Natural World." For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events

Conference Theme:

Modern science consistently presents us with new and surprising truths about the natural world, particularly about how new things come to be, whether stars and galaxies, plants and animals, or chemical and physical structures. In many ways this creativity and flux in nature might seem antithetical to the classical picture of nature that Aquinas inherited from Aristotle. The theme for the second annual Thomistic Institute symposium on modern science and Thomistic philosophy, “Novelty in Nature: Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Flux and Change in the Natural World,” touches on this question. Expert scientists and philosophers will discuss whether Thomistic philosophy is compatible with our modern scientific view of nature and how the two might enrich one another. The symposium is primarily intended for graduate students in the sciences and the philosophy of science and will include introductory sessions on basic of Thomistic philosophy of nature in its own day and in the history of science.

2019 Featured Speakers:

Karin Oberg (Harvard University), Robert Koons, (University of Texas), Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, (Providence College), Marissa March (University of Pennsylvania), Fr. James Brent, OP, (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Thomas McLaughlin (St. John Vianny Theological Seminary), Matthew Gaetano (Hillsdale College), Dr. Brian Carl (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception).

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0:00.0	The Greek History of the Universe from the dawn of time up until the creation of planet Earth.
0:05.9	Okay, and we've got 40 minutes, so get ready. Get ready.
0:11.2	If you're familiar to just so stories, Redoubt Kipling very nicely tells us like
0:15.1	how the leopard got his spot, how the elephant got his trunk.
0:18.6	Today's story is how the universe got its planets
0:22.6	and all the other stuff along the way.
0:24.6	So without further ado, let's get started.
0:27.6	This diagram, we're going to see all the way through this talk,
0:30.6	and this diagram helps us to get oriented on the timeline.
0:34.6	You'll see in the far left, I want to say the beginning, we've got time
0:40.3	zero and on the very other side we've got time 14 billion years later. A billion is
0:46.3	a thousand million. And just to kind of look at this ruler, it's like our cosmic ruler,
0:51.3	every small interval on that cosmic ruler is 200 million years.
0:55.5	Okay, so we're going to like keep referring back to this timeline to get ourselves
0:59.6	oriented about where we are in the history of the universe. And I've made some
1:04.5	little icons, okay, to help us out as well. You can see time zero, okay, that's time the
1:08.4	big bang, okay, bang. And right on the far side, about 13.7 billion years.
1:14.7	You can see that's today, and also the human race, and a bit before that dinosaurs.
1:21.7	And about 4.6 billion years before that, the creation of the Earth and the Sun.
1:27.4	And Father Thomas asked me to talk about everything up until the creation of the earth and the sun. And Father Thomas asked me
1:28.5	to talk about everything up until the creation of Earth. And then I believe that somebody else
1:33.0	is going to give a talk after that. Yes, he's nodding. This is good. Okay, so this morning we're
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