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The Dance of the Fertile Universe

The Dance of the Fertile Universe. Chance and Destiny Embrace. George V. Coyne, S.J. Vatican Observatory. Chance or necessity:. God?. The Universe is Fertile Because It is old: 13.7 billion years It contains 10 thousand billion billion stars . From the Big Bang. Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

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The Dance of the Fertile Universe

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  1. The Dance of the Fertile Universe Chance and Destiny Embrace George V. Coyne, S.J. Vatican Observatory

  2. Chance or necessity: God?

  3. The Universe is Fertile Because • It is old: 13.7 billion years • It contains 10 thousand billion billion stars

  4. From the Big Bang

  5. Hubble Ultra Deep Field Elliptical Galaxy Irregular Galaxy Spiral Galaxy

  6. M31

  7. If we could view the Milky Way from above the disk, we would see its spiral arms

  8. We see our galaxy edge-on Primary features: disk, bulge, halo, globular clusters

  9. Milky Way in IR

  10. MW Sagittarius 2

  11. N.American Nebula

  12. HST View of Orion

  13. Orion 2

  14. Clouds and Fragments

  15. Tyffid Nebula

  16. A peaceful death …

  17. An eruptive death …

  18. Crab Neb

  19. Veil Neb

  20. Solar System

  21. Our Earth

  22. Self-Conscious Universe

  23. Holmes & WatsonA Camping Trip

  24. Holmes - Watson

  25. Age - Distance

  26. A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE 1 January: The Big Bang 7 February: The Milky Way is born 14 August: The Earth is born 4 September: First life on the Earth 15 December: The Cambrian Explosion 25 December: The dinosaurs appear 30 December: Extinction of the dinosaurs [Suppose we make the 13.7 billion year old universe have the age of one earth year; then]

  27. A CALENDAR OF THE EVOLVING UNIVERSE 31 December: at 7:00:00 pm: First hominids at 11:58:00 pm: First humans at 11:59:30 pm: Age of Agriculture 47 pm: The pyramids 58 pm: Jesus Christ is born 59 pm: Galileo is born at 12 midnight: today [Suppose we make the 13.7 billion year old universe have the age of one earth year; then]

  28. Age - Distance

  29. Size - Mass

  30. Brain Development

  31. Evolutionary tree

  32. Tree – leaves/trunk

  33. Bacteria

  34. Barzelletta

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