If we have established the speed of the stars that are running away from each other, and calculate their original position in the past, we would find out that is some 13 billion years ago all the objects in the universe where in one singularity. And this concludes the age of the universe. This theory establishes the beginning of the universe and all the matter in it ; when the universe started with that first burst [a big Bang], the universe has been expanding ever since. The most recent finding , that universe is not only an expanding universe (expanding space) but it is expanding in an accelerating rate,
NGC 3370
here is an elliptical galaxy , is called NGC 3370 similar to our own milky way that contain some billion stars or so , each one star just like our sun, most are with planets; This galaxy is part of a group that is called cluster of galaxies, this cluster contains millions of such galaxies,
Cluster of galaxies
We now know that our galaxy is only one of some trillion galaxies that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred million or billions of stars... We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its center about once every several hundred million years.
And yet thou sayest, God is invisible; but be advised, for who is more manifest than HE?
Corpus Hermeticum
When you step outside your house at night and you look up in the clear skies, you can fit one cluster of galaxies on a pinhead patch of the skies, I will leave it up to you to speculate or just imagine how many clusters of galaxies are there in the heavens…?
The theory of relativity is WORKABLE (applicable) to the large scale only, such as suns , planets ,galaxies and apples , but general theory of relativity becomes non applicable to the small objects , such as the sub particles of the atom; but another theory becomes valid here , ( Quantum physics), so quantum physics is just the physics of the incredibly small the sub atomic structures .
(QM)Quantum physics ;
Relative theory is a valid theory with big objects ,such as galaxies Suns planets .. or a mountain, a tree, an apple a cat or a mosquito but it falls short in explaining the smaller particles. These particles are things like electrons, protons, and neutrons. Which are composed of yet smaller particles with wired names such as Muon, tau, neutrino, and much.. much more.
Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger are the founders Quantum mechanics which is the physical science that dealing with the behavior of matter and energy on the scale of atoms and subatomic particles even describes the paths which these particles make! That's right; the model of an atom that you were taught in high school is wrong. The electrons do not orbit like planets; they form blurred clouds of probabilities around the nucleus. Protons and neutrons they’re each made of three quarks, each with its own 'flavor' and 'colors'.
Let’s not forget the gluons, the even smaller particles that hold this mass together when they collect together they form glueballs (not a very creative name). QM also forms the basis for the contemporary understanding of how very large objects such as stars and galaxies, and cosmological events such as the Big Bang, can be analyzed and explained.
Why weren't you told about this already? did you miss a class when you took general chemistry? The quantum model of the atom is much more complex than the traditional model, so most teachers save that stuff for college. If you think that this stuff is new to you, you should look at the newest theory yet.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The string theory
What's in an apple? (or anything else for that matter)? Well, if you go down far enough in scale, beyond electrons, protons, and neutrons. Quarks and gluons string theorists say, you'll find tiny, vibrating loops of string. Or open string of energy. In so far science has two theories to describe our universe one for the very large (theory of relativity ,and one for the very small ( quantum physics ) the dream of Einstein and other scintest is a UNIFICATION of these two theories and to come up with one that is workable and valid to these two sides of our universe the big and the small, there for the string theory is called ( the theory of every thing )
theory of every thing
